Odin Still Impossible

[RoninDarkchild]

I can't get anything higher then a Bronze on Odin simply because he is still bugged sometimes.

For 1 thing, sometimes it's as if youre not even in combat. Your HP and MP regen as if youre idle. (tho i dont recall if this happens in all Fates... cant recall right now)
When you attack him, often time your attacks do not register at all. For example, on BLM i somtimes have to nuke him 3-4 times with Fire 1, for astral fire timer to reset. This shows me my attacks arent being recorded. Sometimes it lasts for the entire duration of Astral Fire, making me lose the buff.
On a melee Job, often I am unable to combo...at ALL. The hit isnt registering, more glaring when on MNK.

Something is def wrong when the area is extremely crowded.

[Narcissus]

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.

Jesus christ, how big are your servers? This problem never happens on Behemoth and we are biggest server NA I believe.

[DeceptionsWrath]

I like that i can see Odin but i still can't get anything other than a bronze. I do decent damage, the last fight i had with Odin, i did atleast 8k damage and still managed to get only bronze. The fight was only like 10 minutes though. I also really hate how if he even looks in my direction with me as BRD, i'm dead. Randomly being killed while 30 feet from him with no aoe markers kinda sucks.

[MurakumoMillennium]

Just throw it out there, but being able to kill him doesn't make him "impossible" as people are claiming.

[Filthy]

They havent fix'd odin at all, they've just changed the problem. I can now target odin with ease but now i cant target my own party members to heal them. Was banging my head of the wall on the first day "fix", tank was shouting at me to heal him because he was trying to main tank but sorry bro its hard to heal someone thats 1) i cant see and 2) i cant target.

What a mess.

[Tupsi]

I still say what would solve this problem is re-imagine Einhejrar from FFXI - Give him proper raid content.

[Ogun_Riastradh]

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

This is happening on Excalibur right now (Jan 4, 2014 1745 EST) Three times in a row. Combo's and damage on Odin aren't proc'ing for me and LB meter won't fill up. I thought they fixed this FATE overload nonsense with 2.1?

[frostmagemari]

I'd rather have it be a FATE that everyone can participate in that a NM that only one PT can claim every 36 hours.

I'd rather have a fate that you can beat with a few people (light to full party) that acts as a key to fighting an instanced battle with him, instead of a FATE that crashes servers. I think it's the only option too, 'cause SQE still can't seem to keep their servers up; And i don't see that changing anytime soon.