Alexandrite FATE drop increase?

[Kumabear76]

Any zone works. I got a few from CCH yesterday.

Drop rate has to be in the range of 10-15% it is very noticeable as compared to the old 1% drop rate. I have gotten 7 total from Fates.

Perfect. Thank you for this. I was afraid of farming in other zones and wasting hours of time.

[Lilyanna]

It seems to up and down, atleast in my case. Sunday I did 3hrs in North Than and got 10 (While SB'ing) and then I did about 5 hours today and only got 4 of them. It could have been the number of people (There were A LOT on Sunday) that made it seem faster? Not sure, but 14 in 2 days does make it seem like they are dropping at a good rate.

[SithCait]

Got one from a level 8 fate outside ML, something to do with a farmer lol. Long as you get gold not sure it matters, also got one from go go lastnight

[Arkenne]

Been getting some every now and then, but I wouldn't say that the rate is high enough to bother focusing on it.

If anything I would recomend getting a boarskin map, opening it in a main city and do any FATE you find in the way while walking to the destination... at least gives you a side goal.

[FallenHero]

Best thing to do is to get in a Hunting party and farm Fates in between hunt calls.

[Iagainsti]

I am tempted to try this out but I want to make sure I have all the abilities at my disposal. Do you have a recommendation on which zone. I was thinking northern than or maybe even Coerthas.

It would be awesome if you could have your animus and farm atma at the same time as Alex. They should allow animus to be able to still collect Atma.

Now a 10% Drop rate from Fates for Alexandrite. I preferred Upper LaNoscea Bc its very little travel time, lots of fates, and if you're a Miner, Electrum Ore for the I49 accessories you're SBing for the melds while you wait for fates to pop.

[XiXiQ]

When this first started, I would see maybe 2-3 alex a day from doing fates in between waiting for duties, etc (so average around 30 fates a day I suppose). In the past week and a bit I have not seen a single one drop. I must be over 200 fates now (conservative estimate), over about 10 days, and not a sausage. It might just be a coincidence this happened right after the maintenance period - not the last one, the one the Tuesday before. This is on Odin.

Before you ask what weapon I'm using, I'm still getting lights and hitting Gold on all of them, so that's not the issue.

Is this just me or has anyone else noticed a big difference happening in the drop rates?

[Wintersandman]

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I have seen an increase in drops.

[AskaRay]

The RNG machine has it out for me... I've done about a hundred FATES since the patch (yes, with my weapon equipped) and haven't seen a single alexandrite... oh well.

[BlaiseArath]

Best thing to do is to get in a Hunting party and farm Fates in between hunt calls.

This is solid advice. While I'm hunting open HUNT windows, I do FATEs... Drop rate still sucks, at least for me...