New FATE System Poorly Conceived

[Castillan]

Real easy to scale a FATE in real time.

For single critter fates. The critter has set HP. The players still see themselves hitting for the same amount of damage. However, simply silently divide the damage dealt to the critter's base HP by the number of people who have registered against the aggro system of the critter within the last 30 secs, and update that value every 30 secs to account for people entering/leaving the fate area. Heck, the system already tracks who's on each critter's aggro list, just silently divide the number by that aggro list length.

For multi-critter fates, as we know, each death advances towards completion. Divide the advancement rate by the number of unique participants on the aggro charts, and update that value very 10s or so.

Easy.

[RynaultB]

This is difficult because it would have to be done on the fly. You can't really scale an NM up or down after someone has started fighting it, and "kill the mobs" fates could only reasonably scale as new waves spawn.

Hate to quote Blizzard on this, but in MoP they introduced scaling mobs specifically named mobs (NMs for FF). As the mob is hit by more players its HP and damage and all that is scaled up. I remember watching a mobs HP go fro 5mil to 40mil in a matter of seconds when each player hit it with an ability.

[Mykll]

Defiance did a good job I think with their Fate system. If the entire "Fate" was killed quickly (or lots of players) then 2 additional hard intended for a larger crowd also spawns. If less people, or the fate finishes slowly, then the additional waves do not spawn. It sort of judges on the fly by spawning 2 progressively harder waves or not.

Of course, this doesn't work with single boss or collection fates, but....