What would make Fates better?

[FMElan]

As far as I know, the only real chain FATE we have is Svara. I realise it might not be possible to do dynamic map changes, but at least having FATE chains with success/fail branches would make things more interesting, rather than "Oh look, FATE popped. Ok, done. Let's go to the other one on the other side of the map now. Oh, it failed. Oh well, next."

There are actually at least three chain FATEs aside from Svara, which is the least interesting. The Attack on Highbridge is accessed much earlier(I think around 25-ish), and has two potential final stages, depending on whether you succeeded or failed in Act 1/2/3. Then there's the Redbelly Hive, in South Shroud, which was, at least in 2.0, one of the saddest cases, because the most interesting result of the chain was almost never seen because people were too busy zerging it(if you fail at Part 2, a new third act comes around, with a boss who summons a giant turtle in addition to all his Redbelly buddies). The Redbelly Hive's especially cool because success or failure decides what NPC's will be located there until the next time it pops(it can be either the Redbellies, or the Woodwailers). The last of my three is the Corpse Brigade FATEs in Southern Thanalan. This is more or less a standard FATE, but it's still pretty cool, IMO, especially since it's almost always left alone by the playerbase(great place to get together with friends and actually enjoy some open world content).

Oh, and there's the worms in Southern Thanalan, over by the Forgotten Spring. That's a two-part FATE as well, but...ehhhhhhhh.

[Lyrinn]

There are actually at least three chain FATEs aside from Svara, which is the least interesting. The Attack on Highbridge is accessed much earlier(I think around 25-ish), and has two potential final stages, depending on whether you succeeded or failed in Act 1/2/3. Then there's the Redbelly Hive, in South Shroud, which was, at least in 2.0, one of the saddest cases, because the most interesting result of the chain was almost never seen because people were too busy zerging it(if you fail at Part 2, a new third act comes around, with a boss who summons a giant turtle in addition to all his Redbelly buddies). The Redbelly Hive's especially cool because success or failure decides what NPC's will be located there until the next time it pops(it can be either the Redbellies, or the Woodwailers).

Did not know about these so thank you for sharing. ^^

But we need exactly more FATEs like these. They need to be in the majority rather than in the minority. As for zerging, it's inevitable as it happens even in GW2, but I think they attempted to fix it by scaling mobs by the number of people who participated in it previously? I thought I heard something like that.

[DarkDedede]

I think it would be fun if there were a wider variety of FATEs. For example, if certain FATEs only spawned for during certain weather.

I think it would also be fun if there were more incentives to do them, other than minions and exp. Like if mobs had a chance to dropped special items or mats (only available in FATEs). Might make things a bit more interesting. It would work for potential gathering FATEs too.

In any case, there really needs to be a better reason to do FATEs other than the exp. I personally like the little intro story that goes a long with it, but I know not everyone finds that kind of thing interesting. A FATE journal, to keep track of the ones you've participated in, would be interesting too.