Dark Devices is dead.

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Note: This is mainly for my server (Phoenix). May or may not apply to your server.

While Dark Devices did give a lot of exp and the exp was very nice it did allow for quick leveling, in fact 42 - 50 took almost 9 hours. But that wasn't because of that FATE, the whole amounts of FATEs in Northern Thanalan spawn rapidly and give around 22k exp, plus each mob in the FATE gave you almost 1k exp.

However I saw it pop 4 - 5 times today while I was leveling my Scholar. Oddly enough no one was there, 4 minutes went by and 2 people came, and began to do the FATE. Even then those two people safe spotted the mobs. The chain finished and only 5 people showed up. When no FATEs where up I saw around 12 people in the area. This may or may not be because of the time it being an EU server and I'm Australian most English people are asleep.

The main I'm trying to make is that one FATE got a lot of people together and it came like a mini raid, people communicated IE "Don't kill lambs!" but people listened and most people didn't do it. The only thing I don't miss is the constant abuse that followed with that FATE. The FATE caused hate and abuse but when you removed it you killed an entire area. No one is in this area now, much like Mor Dhona it's dead; People may be in dungeons but theirs no way in hell I'm doing dungeons on my DPS characters.
In all my time I have never seen Go, Go, Gorgimera not be completed.


I only want to play with others Square-Enix, making parties and tackling FATEs allowed for some great friendships to start, is the start of a trend? all high level areas are becoming dead. First it was Mor Dhona, now it's Northern Thanalan. What's next? Coerthas?

Please, I want to make a party and tackle FATEs! Dungeons queue timer is far to long.
The con's of nerfing this FATE are greater than the pro's.