Wait Lightning crossover is this?

[Baneus]

Hell, getting them to even load before the fate is over is the issue. (At least for me)
Don't think blizzard 2 or flash is going to fix that.

I also have the advantage of playing from NZ on a US server. There were less than 30 people when I did the fate.

[amnie]

I also have the advantage of playing from NZ on a US server. There were less than 30 people when I did the fate.

can't mean much, really. I did the fate for the first time at about an hour after the event started (at 9 o'clock), which was I think.. uh... 4 in the night on the US east coast (so even earlier in the other NA timezones)... and it was still a spamfest. I don't even want to begin to imagine what it will be like at EU prime time (in roughly 5-7 hours), much less US prime time. lol

[Namasu]

What's really disappointing is that, despite how much they like FATEs, they know right now it's a flawed system and yet they decided to make the whole event about them, gathering the whole servers in 2 spots for easy low level FATEs, making it even worse than Behemoth, Oding, Svara and whatever.

Normally what a good designer would do is work around or avoid what he knows it's flawed, instead they decided to push the FATE system at its limit, either we're all testing how bad it is or someone at SE is really stupid.

It's a starter quest that let any lowbie who just bought the game to participate in. It doesn't take that hard to clear it and you don't need even need to hit gold contribution. What's so flawed about having a piss easy intro quest to give out some free vanity gears for everyone?

Please don't even try to say that no one can clear it because it's so crowded like Behemoth and Odin. Even ps3 players and low spec pc can clear this quest and come back to farm for more parcel. Oh and bonus they give you 2 whole days before the next quest chain open up! Two whole days for you to choose a good 1 hour stretch to sit down and get all the rare items. Cool.

[Aerostein]

I also have the advantage of playing from NZ on a US server. There were less than 30 people when I did the fate.

On my server, I tried to attempt them a few times about an hour or two after the event started. Figured being the time that it was, most people would be asleep or otherwise offline... Boy, was I wrong.

[Baneus]

can't mean much, really. I did the fate for the first time at about an hour after the event started (at 9 o'clock), which was I think.. uh... 4 in the night on the US east coast (so even earlier in the other NA timezones)... and it was still a spamfest. I don't even want to begin to imagine what it will be like at EU prime time (in roughly 5-7 hours), much less US prime time. lol

I think I tagged just over half the fate mobs before I ran out of MP. Still got gold, even though I didn't mange to tag another one for the rest of the fate. I did exactly 0 damage. I also turned down the other players battle effects (which is located in a really weird place in the options, considering what it does).

[Aerostein]

It doesn't take that hard to clear it and you don't need even need to hit gold contribution.

Please don't even try to say that no one can clear it because it's so crowded like Behemoth and Odin. Even ps3 players and low spec pc can clear this quest and come back to farm for more parcel.

Yeah, uhh no. Was in a party for them, and I didn't get jack squat. The one with Lightning was the worst. At the time, nothing loaded up and the zerg finished fate in what, 7 seconds just about?

[amnie]

Yeah, uhh no. Was in a party for them, and I didn't get jack squat. The one with Lightning was the worst. At the time, nothing loaded up and the zerg finished fate in what, 7 seconds just about?

crappy laptop user here. I finished it about 4 minutes ago, got gold. (same server as you)
sounds like you a) didn't use any aoe (you basically HAVE to have blizzard II or flash for this one) and b) didn't turn off effects and nametags

alternatively you can of course wait a few days and hope people will have less interest in the fate

[Evangela]

how to get those weapons? already cleared the FATE so many times.

[Baneus]

how to get those weapons? already cleared the FATE so many times.

Vendor next to the quest guy.

[MarkisKyler]

Well the first part is lightning shows up in our world doesn't know why she is here and gets involved in a fight in our land, ie the fate thats already there. Sooooooo maybe thats why thats why it uses an already existing fate. Ya know story. . .