Add Wanted targets (like leves) as uncommon additions to fates.

[Duuude007]

This occurred to me, that just like levequests can occasionally have wanted targets, fates could too.

Perhaps this could be a fun way to factor in atma, as well.

Scenario:

Player is farming FATE with zenith equipped. (only one who can interact with target (below)
Player gets warning of "wanted enemy located"

Enemy is "Atma Weapon of Scales", designed to look like atma from ffvi.

Example:



Atma enemy is defeated. Chance of atma drop is 1:1 for an atma weapon kill, and is given at random to ANYONE who was on the hate list before it died. 50 people kill it, 1 drops. 1 person kills, 1 drops.

This addition would occur while the current atma droprate remains as-is elsewhere.

This concept could further be used in the future as an alternative to ffxi style NMs.

(The wanted target could also entirely replace the fate goal, while the original fate name remains up on the world map.. You must go in person, to know whether it is an atma fate.)

Thoughts?

[Duuude007]

This is meant to add an alternate factor to earning atma, the odds of it spawning do not need to be very high at all. It is however a scenario that adds a glimmer of hope in the atma farming, something that in its present form on its own, doesn't really exist. By the time you get excited, the farm is already over. Which makes for a tedious grind.

Whether I like it or not, the number of issues people are having with the droprate is steadily rising, and SE may take action because of it. The purpose of this suggestion is to provide a much more subtle (yet fun) alternative to (the expected consequence of) increasing the RNG odds, as well as other destructive suggestions like "kill x fates, get an atma 100%" - Something to which I am strongly opposed.

This suggestion I make with caution-Because if they make the path to animus too easy, it will likely force them to give it a lower ceiling of future growth, just like the contrast between Zenith and Allaghan tier weapons.

[WellFooled]

To be honest, I could take or leave the Atma side of this suggestion, but having Wanted Targets spawn inside FATEs is an awesome idea. Granted, the only way this would be different than any other FATEs is for them to drop something interesting. With your Atma suggestion though it would only be interesting for those currently doing the Atma quest.

I would rather your suggestion be applied, as you mentioned toward the end, for FFXI style NMs but without the worries that someone else would grab the claim before you. Which means practical item/gear drops, but maybe instead of just one dropping it would be based on how many participants there are. So if <20 players participate, one item drops, if more than 20 but less than 40 participate than two items drop, and so on. That way every additional person to join the fray doesn't make you cringe because you're chances of getting a reward are doing nothing but going down.

Fine idea! Have a like, sir!