I have to agree wholeheartedly that waiting for a fate is a gigantic waste of time. The only time I 'park' my character is if I'm eating, reading a magazine, or doing some other thing where the silence is fine and I can listen for the inevitable music to start and let me grab my controller and beat the fate. Otherwise, I might pop into that map to do something else and check periodically if the fate is there or queue up for a daily roulette and I don't want to get busy doing something and miss that. I don't wait long as a healer or tank, so I don't spend a lot of time there either. Still, I can find a B mark several times before most of the fates that they post as dailies make an appearance. That's frustrating at best.