Fate difficulty and scaling 57-59

[Gunspec]

The Fates don't really scale by level. They scale by how many people participated in that particular Fate's last occurrence. So if noone participated in it prior it's going to be scaled pretty low for it's level range whereas if it was hit with a Fate party it's going to be scaled pretty high. This is true of all Fates, not just the NM Fates though the NM Fates are more blatant with the differences. If a Fate you're trying to do is kicking you around don't blame the level difference, blame the Fate party that steamrolled it previously.

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I'm talking about how low the fate scales when no one has been completing it. I'm just using "level 57-60" as an indicator of the zone and the fate I'm doing. My point is, that fates that no one is doing in later 3.0 zones are too difficult and time consuming to be run by a single player, compared to fates in 2.0 zones. This forces players to run fates in groups, which typically stick to hinterlands, churning mists, and often only Northern Thanalan on my server.

The level 50-54 fates are easier to solo (assuming no one has cleared them recently), because according to 3.0 gear rules, a level 51 player should be wearing ilevel 115 or 120 gear. If I'm in ilevel 130 poetic gear, I can beat these fates on my own. But at level 57-59, the fates are probably tuned toward players in ilevel 135-145 gear, and it is impossible to be higher geared than that while sub-level 60. Thus soloing them is much harder and there is more danger of running out of time.

While players always stick to a few zones, as northern thanalan proves, you always had the viable option in 2.X to wander off and grind fates in other places. In 3.0 zones, if I'm not with a group, its just not feasible to take on most of these fates alone, even when I'm the only person attempting them in days.