FATEs - changes are way overdue

[Saseal]

Yesss.

This was my biggest turn off to the atma books. I can spam dungeons. I do it anyway. I can slap some monster around, sure. Kinda easy, even when you're camping the same monsters as someone else (could just party up with them and knock it out for both without worrying about who gets the cred).

But the fates wait time.... besides the redundancy of the books themselves (I hate repeating myself numerous times), this is a good portion of the reason why I stopped doing the books - and now just use the yagrush.

Edit> It's not so much doing fates, but rather like the OP said - the wait time for their spawn

[Dragoon4life]

Yesss.

This was my biggest turn off to the atma books. I can spam dungeons. I do it anyway. I can slap some monster around, sure. Kinda easy, even when you're camping the same monsters as someone else (could just party up with them and knock it out for both without worrying about who gets the cred).

But the fates.... besides the redundancy of the books themselves (I hate repeating myself numerous times), this is a good portion of the reason why I stopped doing the books - and now just use the yagrush.

I see more Solidary, Shiva Ex and a sprinkle of Coil Weapons now more then ever. This trend will continue due to the enormous amount of time and RNG required. Alexandrite and Light Farming is really boring and long.

And Now there expensive like really expensive. 400,000 Gil 6400 Sol 40,000 GC Seals. And Require high lv Desynthing and Crafting which will cost more Gil if you don't DIY.

[Saseal]

I see more Solidary, Shiva Ex and a sprinkle of Coil Weapons now more then ever. This trend will continue due to the enormous amount of time and RNG required. Alexandrite and Light Farming is really boring and long.

And Now there expensive like really expensive. 400,000 Gil 6400 Sol 40,000 GC Seals. And Require high lv Desynthing and Crafting which will cost more Gil if you don't DIY.

I'm starting to think that these weapons aren't for the casuals, but moreso for the masochists... =p
I'm considered a casual, I guess? Or midway? ionno o_O (Raids <3, SCoB </3), but I'd rather throw myself into the pits of the EXs to farm the pieces for the Shiva weapons. At least I feel challenged, even if I'm not particularly ohemgeegood at those kinds of fights (IE, I'd rather fling myself at it until I know it). It's just a matter of working up the nerve, knowing I'd be going in with people who probably will be jerks about everything/anything. But I guess I'll take that over a seemingly infinite and expensive loop. >_>

Which... I should probably take this relization as a kick in the ass to start doing the rest of the EX primals z_z

[Drako]

This subject just keeps coming up. Below is a reply I posted in the last thread we had about it. FATEs for daily hunt (and Animus books, etc.) still taking forever?

2.15 The first time I believe they saw people were getting stressed by fates. And the response was actually really good. The beast tribe fates I believe would pop like all the freaking time after this patch. So I don't know why they didn't continue with this thought process.



2.3



2.35


They made two other attempts to fix fates, and somehow still fell very short. They need to single out the fates that are taking the longest. Because there are a handful of fates that we always experience long delays. You know the ones.. They need to take those fates and put them on their own timer or something.

Sense the same stressful situation is arising that they had to fix in 2.15 is occurring, you figured they'd want to fix it. The situation being, people hung up on the content, and cant go do anything else but waste a hour or two for such minimal reward.

Maybe this is a opportunity. Maybe like how they added weather forecasters, they can put in some kind of forecaster for FATEs. You could check someone in town, or at a outpost that could say hey I think I saw this huge monster, and it might attack soon(10 mins) or I haven't seen any signs of it(just popped and will be a hour)

There has been some effort in the past from SE to try fixing it. But it hasn't helped. I wouldn't be surprised if we see something about it this update. But if not, I recall Yoshi-P saying in a interview awhile back they have plans to phase out FATEs. I can't recall where it was, so I can't post the source. But when they do that, clearly they will have to make adjustments to that part of the relic quest.

[Malzian]

I'm starting to think that these weapons aren't for the casuals, but moreso for the masochists... =p

Guess I'm a real masochist then seeing as how I'm on the 4th book for my 5th Animus. >.>

[Saseal]

Guess I'm a real masochist then seeing as how I'm on the 4th book for my 5th Animus. >.>

Possibly Just kidding, though! /soothe
Congrats on all those weapons! o_o Dat patience