Fates are dying on my server. [Leviathan]

[Mysteryman2000]

I like doing fates in a group of people especially in the FC. But since 2.1 has come out everyone on the server has pretty much stopped doing Fates. North Thanalan is empty 60% of the day, Quarrymill has maybe 1 group of 6 people trying to do Fates, and not sure about Coerthas. People have started doing more dungeons instead of doing Fates, which is a good thing to a certain extent. The small amount of people attempting to do Gorgchimera or any other boss like Fate are getting wiped. Fates where those things you would grind one minute and work on something else while you waited for another to pop up, not to mention it was always easy to get in a group.

[Raestloz]

Here's an excerpt of the manual put in the same box as FATE:
Side effects may include:
1. Uncaring tank
2. DPS tank
3. Mute bards
4. Reduced teamwork
5. Reduced understanding of game mechanics
6. Reduced fitness for end-game dungeons
7. Increased size of digital penis, followed with reduced size of physical brain.

So lack of FATE participant is totally welcome. I must say that certain FATEs should be kept alive (such as bosses like Gorge Chimera) but I don't know how. What I DO know is that FATE academy alumnis have killed me and the whole party more than multiple times.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Really? I'm on Balmung and Northern Thanalan always has masses of people spamming FATEs for level grinding. Many normal FATEs on my server are still ignored, like the ones in the Slyphlands

[Sadana]

I think it really depends on time of day. I have noticed fewer people grinding FATES, but they are still there. If I'm tired of running dungeons, I'll grab a few FC friends and we'll level alt classes in FATES for a while. For the tougher single boss FATES, we usually make a full party with going to that fight as our goal.

[Soulburn32]

Death of Fates = Bad for short term goals of leveling your char

Good for the long term effects of making the game last longer via you can't just level to 50 in a weekend hardly trying anymore, people will actually learn their class from playing in 4 man group content, people wont be hitting 50 in all white low level crap gear and not even know what half their skills are used for.

[rkpost]

Current situation is amazing. FATEs are events that give some life to maps. FATEs zergs annoyed people who want to play this game without rush in one week.

Im lvl my second y third job and I dont need to do only FATEs. I do them if they appear next to me while Im doing anything else but with roullete, dungeons (there are a lot of dungeons), tribes, primals... the game is more heterogeneous and fun.

[Squa]

fates are slow now

[Oxide_Vanwen]

Maybe it's just Leviathan as a whole. I made a character over there just to see how active other servers are compared to Ultros. I always see people in the towns and I've seen lowbies in Lower and Middle La Noscea but I kid you not I have barely seen anything said in /shout in over 24 hours. I was even in a Free Company where I accepted a blind invite and nobody said a word in the 3 days I was in there. I wish there was something that showed server population because I'd be really interested in why there's such a lack of communication on Leviathan.

[FJerome]

Most of the shout chat on Leviathan these days seems to be in East Shroud and Southern Thanalan, while people are waiting for the Fate for their Beast Tribe daily to pop-up.

Fates are definitely less populated on Leviathan than before 2.2 but it's actually rather nice that way, now you can actually run to a Fate in South Shroud and it'll still be going once you get there. You'll be practically solo-ing anything that pops up anywhere less popular, like Upper La Noscea, but that's not much different from how it was before.

[Aura_Shurifon]

Yep, I can actually switch class, wait for cooldown, do the FATE and still get gold when I see a FATE with less than 10Min on timer...

Fate are better this way : less people = a little more challenge = less boring.
They were really boring, but so much faster to get XP than grinding dungeons, that's why there was so much people on them.

Now it's still faster but not much and there's better (less boring) things to do like Rkpost said (+ leves).