FATEs in the new areas glitched?

[Cervani]

Is it just me or is the fates in the new areas glitched in regards to the experience you get? It just doesn't seem to make sense to me that I can get 27-30k exp from fates in Northern Than. yet only get 14k exp from a fate in western coerthas.

I've had some people tell me it was SEs way of dealing with overpopulation, but they implemented the instancing servers for that so that can't be it. As it is now, people have had to rely on sidequests/MSQ to get any sort of decent experience since fates give nothing at all in regards to time/exp.

And for those who might say it's being used as a stopgap to prevent people from leveling to 60 to quickly... it doesn't seem to have worked that well if that's the current use.

[Zfz]

Armoury Bonus for 1-49 is set at 100%. So if you've been leveling your DRK you will see double FATE EXP until you ding 50, then after that, if you have no jobs at 51+, then you don't have any Armoury Bonus, meaning you get only the original FATE EXP.

[Cervani]

Hmmmm, I forgot about that. Once the servers come back up I'll compare the two areas now that I've hit 50 on my DRK and should have lost the 100% armory bonus for the 50%.

[Zfz]

You only get the Armoury Bonus for jobs that are not your highest level job. If all your jobs are at 50, none of them will get the Armoury Bonus, so it would be 0%.

[Hyunckel]

You got 24k XP in Northern Thanalan (or 26K XP from Lv 45+4 leves in Mor Dhona) at Lv.49 because you get +100% XP with the Armoury Bonus (IF you have a Lv.50+ character)

Now that makes N.Than FATEs more like 12K RAW XP.

But yeah, 14K XP at Lv.51 when you go from 529K XP needed to level up to 1 Million + is a bit lame anyway.

Without armoury bonuses, that would be 44 FATEs to level up from 49 to 50 (529,000 XP required)

IIRC it was already 1,069,000 XP to go from Lv.50 to 51

With 14,000 XP a FATE (that takes forever to complete since they go HUUUGE HP scaling thanks to half a hundred of players on them every time) ... That's like 76 FATEs TO LEVEL UP ! ! !

If it was the same ~ 44 FATEs per level that would be 24,295 XP per FATE .... Yeah the scaling is horrible that's a given.

Even with +50% XP when we will have a Lv.60 ... It will be one huge grind.

[IceWing]

I did fates in N than for 51-52 for an hr, and got around 500k xp. It seems better then running fates in the upper level areas till probably 55, and dungeons give around 300k per run with food and rested xp. You can however speed run the dungeons making them take 20mins or less (for the pre 60 dngs). I have yet to time the xp for dungeon spamming yet as I just woke up but will look into it later (on a DPS job-when I que'd for dusk vigil it only too around 8mins for the que to pop with only 2 dps in my premade pt)

[EdeaParadise]

they def. feel under tuned

did one with w. coerthas, got gold rating and 8.7k xp....