YES fates are broken.

[Gerolan]

After reading the live letter today about how people complain about the fates for animus.
Tonight Coerthas , taste of fear fate, 2am I turned up at the area, it's about to hit 5am and the fate hasn't spawned once, (real time not game time)
If your aim is to lose subscribers, you really are going the right way about it
clearly 3 hrs is not working as intended /rant off
Sitting in a zone for three hours for one fate to spawn is beyond a joke, Coerthas suffers due to the fact so many fates spawn here. Surely giving priority to ones that are in books is better

[Nghthawk]

It is clearly working as intended, you should be thanking someone higher up that it isn't like the coil lockout where you can only do one once a week.

[Dhex]

It is clearly working as intended, you should be thanking someone higher up that it isn't like the coil lockout where you can only do one once a week.

Waiting - the best non-game you've ever paid for!

Includes wild and fantastic features such as the following:
Un-engaging non-interactive periods of nauseating boredom rarely punctuated by fleeting insubstantial content!
The opportunity to catch up on your reading or favorite TV shows!
Sit in a chair staring a screen watching your avatar stand around blithely!
All this and less!

Only $13.99 a month!

[Mcshiggs]

I say they should offer a choice between a netflix or hulu subscription with the monthly fee for this game. Waiting for a fate might not be so bad if you the wacky antics of House to help pass the time.

[BunnyChain]

clearly 3 hrs is not working as intended /rant off

I believe it was really intended this way. Had to also wait 3 hours for a FATE once, gladly only once. Apparently it was supposed to be fixed, iirc some patch notes but that it seems never happened...

If you're sitting and waiting, you're doing it wrong.

Get out there and complete other fates in the same zone.

Really bad idea, especially in zones like Coerthas and, in my case, East Shroud, FATE boss' HP vary based on the amount of participants last time, such a boss can die in half a minute, I'm had that happen to me, I was right there when it appeared, could only get silver and had to wait for it to appear again...

Waiting - the best non-game you've ever paid for!

Includes wild and fantastic features such as the following:
Un-engaging non-interactive periods of nauseating boredom rarely punctuated by fleeting insubstantial content!
The opportunity to catch up on your reading or favorite TV shows!
Sit in a chair staring a screen watching your avatar stand around blithely!
All this and less!

Only $13.99 a month!

Please, look forward to it!

[Gerolan]

Yes waiting three hours for a fate which could of been best spent elsewhere is clearly working as intended.
And way to go taking it off topic, this post has nothing to do with coil

[Nghthawk]

Yes waiting three hours for a fate which could of been best spent elsewhere is clearly working as intended.
And way to go taking it off topic, this post has nothing to do with coil

He is crying that he has to wait 3 hrs for something that hasn't popped yet, people have to wait days to go back in coil for something they want. You must be tired because they sure as hell are on the same topic (time waiting for something in game).

[Krr]

He is crying that he has to wait 3 hrs for something that hasn't popped yet, people have to wait days to go back in coil for something they want. You must be tired because they sure as hell are on the same topic (time waiting for something in game).

You don't have to actively watch your Coil lockout while tied up ingame for hours at a time to do it. You do for a FATE.

[Memento]

Yes waiting three hours for a fate which could of been best spent elsewhere is clearly working as intended.
And way to go taking it off topic, this post has nothing to do with coil

No one told you you had to do Animus. You knew what the requirements were and what might happen (including rare FATES.) If that wasn't something you were on board with why sign up? There are plenty of other weapon alternatives for those that don't have the time or the will to fulfill the relic weapon requirements.

[Tsunenori]

No one told you you had to do Animus.

The problem that people have with this is that it's a system that encourages you to wait around doing almost nothing in order to get something you want, rather than keeping you engaged for a long period of time. It wasn't realistic on my server to do other FATEs while waiting for book FATEs to spawn, because the FATE you wanted would be finished by the time you made it back. A decent amount of my Scholar Animus was done alt tabbed playing Minecraft or Hearthstone on a second monitor, and that's not something that's necessarily positive.

Still, I think Taste of Fear might be the one FATE that was overlooked in their little balance pass a bit ago. Even Taken felt like it spawned faster than Taste of Fear.