Odin Still Impossible

[Marxam]

It's definitely better than 2.0 version. I am basically guaranteed a silver every time I run it. However, whats annoying is that only one party can get gold and that is the party who lands the finishing blow. So I think one party purposely holds on to their LB and then at the very last second steals the show. If everyone did this the Odin would get Zantetsuken off and everyone will fail the fate. I think its bs and personally they should either increase the silver rewards to 2 or 3 mantles or just give gold to any party who deals a certain amount of damage to Odin regardless of when they enter the fate late or not.

Also I still can't see my party. I see Odin and the people next to him but any healers in my party won't be able to see me (due to range) and thus won't be able to heal me.

[Sayori]

Still having lots of issues with my astral fire/umbral ice during odin yeah. I was hoping they had fixed this

[Tiggy]

All they said they fixed was making sure he was visible. The rest of the problems stem from the fact there are likely over a thousand payers standing in the same area of that zone and the server is struggling to keep it going. They never said they beefed up server capacity in these zones to compensate for the higher player volume so I don't know what everyone was expecting exactly.

[Riv]

Are you kidding me? I see him all the time and he dies in like 2 minutes now lol. If anything, you don't get higher rating cuz others are out DPSing you, etc.

[Rosekitten]

He was lv 60 today on my server. I managed to get silver again with being in a full party from start to finish. (lucked out i was right near where he spawned for once) At the least after they 'fixed' the fate I have been getting silver.. so I guess 3 more silvers I can get my barding and be done with worrying about this foolishness D; (oh wait they added housing stuff to trade in for didn't they? ~kicks self~)

I'm pretty sure the group I was in would have gotten gold if we had managed to pull off LB .. but our bar wasn't filling like at all >_> so there was no hope on that.

[Eclipse]

Hey SE why not throw out some other world content besides FATES. Bring out some HNMs that only one group can claim so we can compete against each other instead of having to complete with server overload.

[Syrellaris]

No thanks, that 1 group can claim this monster is stupid stuff. I hated it in world of warcraft and I will hate it here. It will just mean that people will be camping it's spot in the hope to get it.

[Luthia]

Im on PS3 and love the way these fates are handled now. Havent done jack to my system, so its all SE. I can now see and hit Odin and Behemot just fine, altho I usually end up with silver and not gold ;(

[HumsterMKX]

For all those who say they have no problem with Odin and Behemo, repeat after me.

"Thing is it varies from server to server and timezone. What I experience MAY NOT be the same as what other server and timezone experience."

[ToraFomalhaut]

On Masamune, Odin routinely crashes the zone. Often once you manage to reconnect, IF you manage reconnect at all, the zone is rolled back a couple of minutes before he spawned and the whole thing starts all over again, obligatory 90k disconnects included. The zone caps do nothing to stop the zone from being overloaded and crashing and I wonder if SE are just sitting on their hands hoping one day enough people will give up and their problem will be solved for them without having to do anything to fix or review the way fates operate. I know they envisioned fates to be a way for server communities to get together and participate in a bit of open world battle. But in reality all fates are is a mad spam fest for two or three minutes and a fervent hope you did enough damage to get your contribution to gold level.

Your experiences may vary from server to server, but Masamune being a highly populated server this is pretty much how all popular fates play out be it Odin, Behemoth or whatever season / mission they decided to just jam into a fate to save any real creative design thoughts (Odin is the only fate that I've seen regularly crash its zone however). I really wonder if the 2.0 server structure is that much better than 1.0 at this rate. The limitations and instability being so harshly felt so early into the game are worrying and leave me with a sense of foreboding for future content and the longevity of FFXIV if they don't manage to put a bit more grunt into their servers.