What I find very funny

[Snugglebutt]

It has nothing to do with difficulty to me. Fates seem to give around 15k EXP, quests give around 20-40k so it is more beneficial to do quests and I do those first. I then do the daily hunt marks because they give around 20k EXP plus hunt tokens for use later. Once I do the daily hunts I then do things like sightseeing which again gives around 18k EXP, after I have exhausted all the quests, the hunts and the sightseeing things then I might do fates which unfortunately not many people do right now because I assume they are doing same as me and leaving fates until there is no other better EXP gaining way left on that map. I do the fates that drops items like for example the Fat Chocobo Card I got from one though even before exhausted other EXP methods mentioned above.

I think this is how should be though as in fates should be used as an alternative but not equal way to level since I do not think people should be skipping over all the story related quests including side quests in zones and just grinding fates. If fates offered equal EXP to for example quests then people would lose out on understanding the world, events and people present in HW and that should be avoided if possible from a development angle since makes a mockery of all the effort that went into designing that story, characters and world state explained through those quests by the developers if people just skip it all for grinding fates. Fates should always give less EXP than quests, hunt marks and sightseeing log in my opinion.

Lets not forget people are mostly working on their primary character class still but once that is done and they start leveling their alt classes having exhausted all the quests then fates will be farmed just as much as always have in past. So give it some time and the fate parties swarming maps will be present again soon enough once people start leveling their other classes after finished level their primary one. I haven't tried doing HW leves yet but I think they are good exp however they are dependent on leve allowance so they should give a reasonable amount more than things like fates which have no limitation other than spawn time rotation. Dungeons are also an alternative people might use instead of fates but they should give more EXP than fates too since it equals practice that can use to help others if do dungeons multiple times while doing fates helps teach no-one much of value.