YES fates are broken.

[star_witness]

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

Get out there and complete other fates in the same zone. Only so many will be up at any one time, and you can clear a fate faster than the time it takes for it to expire.

Just keep your map open and as soon as it pops, drop everything and run to it. Run like it's a soldier back from war.

I have only had one stubborn fate, in Blue Fog. Took about 80 minutes for that bastard to pop. But the rest are less than 20 minutes at most.

[Ashkendor]

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

Get out there and complete other fates in the same zone. Only so many will be up at any one time, and you can clear a fate faster than the time it takes for it to expire.

I agree that you're doing it wrong if you just sit and wait, but in a zone like Coerthas you really can't go do other fates and expect to make it back to the one you need when it does pop. The zone being so huge is bad enough, but then you have the lack of aetherytes outside of Dragonhead to deal with. What I do when I'm waiting on book fates is I just take some items to craft, then throw them on the market when I'm done with the fate. It can be anything, really. Ingots, food, whatever. You can at least make the wait time productive.

[Tupsi]

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

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

This is true to an extent, however FATEs that are tied to things like Animus/Novus/Hunts have been altered for whatever reason. Menos for example used to always spawn at a consistent rate but now it seems to be fairly rare at times. (And yes I've timed it pre/post patch.)

[Gerolan]

This is true to an extent, however FATEs that are tied to things like Animus/Novus/Hunts have been altered for whatever reason. Menos for example used to always spawn at a consistent rate but now it seems to be fairly rare at times. (And yes I've timed it pre/post patch.)

Some fates might of been, taste of fear is not on that list,their was someone else waiting there when I turned up and they said they had been their for an hour, so that's 4hrs at least since last spawn.
I'm not asking for SE to give me instant credit for the book (as the person implying I was impatient for waiting 3hrs) I'm just asking for it to spawn in a reasonable time frame.
From what I have read, taken seems to be causing issues too.
I done a tally
Giant saps 4 spawns.
Svara fall 5 spawns
Roc of ages 8 spawns
Baa baa black sheep 8 spawns
Taste of fear 0 spawns
That really is not working as intended