Why even bother sometimes?

[Wulfyn]

I just tried to do a fate... forget it... only one other person showed up, a brd in ilvl 100 gear etc. Nothing lived long enough for me to get in any decent dammage being a lvl 10 Thaumatage. Is this the overpowered gear scenario I have seen others talk about when it comes to doing dungeons etc? Or are fates just that screwed up now?

[Velox]

With level sync the BRD would have been virtually a similar level (assuming you were doing a level 10 FATE). The problem for you being a THM is that all your attacks have cast times while the BRD they are all instant, allowing him/her to jump on mobs before you can get a cast off. Your best bet in that situation would be to just cycle thru mobs and cast a single spell on each one until you've tagged a few, then go back and kill them (if they haven't been killed already by someone else).

[Wulfyn]

I tried doing that but he simply was killing them way too fast... tried a different fate managed to kill one mob while the majority were killed by 3 others with gear just like the brd had. It is frustrating... low xp if youre lucky, and wow 6 seals -_-. I did get annoyed to the point I just logged off rather then just get even more irritated.

[Seoulstar]

That is why I try to avoid some fates if i see someone trying to get exp from it. But not everyone thinks that way, too many are too busy only thinking about themselves.

[Wulfyn]

I can't blame them if the case is atma farming, that is all on SE. Atma grinding doesn't affect all the low lvl fates does it?

[Seoulstar]

If I remember right, it's just in certain areas.

[Cynfael]

Atmas affect pretty much any area in which you'd expect to find a low-level FATE.

As THM/BLM I would use a keybind to cycle targets and hit each one with Scathe (or Aero if still THM). Can also spam Cure/Physick on the player pulling all the aggro if nothing else.

[Rufalus]

One thing that bothered me recently was a fate where the enemies were spawning outside of the designated blue circle fate area and running over to it, but ranged dps players were killing those enemies before they even arrived inside the area. As a melee character with my only ranged attack being unavailable at the level of the fate, I was unable to attack anything, because stepping outside the blue circle meant losing my level sync and no longer being part of the fate. I was powerless to watch as the bard and caster killed all the enemies before they came into my range, and as a result I had no participation.

[Wulfyn]

I noticed they also don't seem to take as much damage as you would think they would.

[EricCartmenez]

Is there a group of people who think that the Atma chances are equal to the amount of participation in the fate? I have 6 Atma stones, and only about 1/2 was I there for the entire fate. There were a couple where I only had a few hits. I can see where you're coming from. I've got zero.zero interest in fate farming for Atma, so I simply go out there with other classes and get XP. I see the folks trying to get Atmas speed running fates the way they do dungeons. Don't care about anything or anyone but me. I can understand and would probably be equally frustrated if I was trotting fate to fate without a single stone. Yet another reason I don't fate farm for Atma. Trying to enjoy the game otherwise and let the Atma come as it does.

Good luck. I found that Aleport is a great place, regardless of your level. Join these fate farming parties and you can level up pretty quickly there.