Quote Originally Posted by Pells View Post
Like how people continued to spam fates in Northern Thanalan because leveling via fates in HW areas wasn't as fast?
It was a transition from a small maps world to a huge maps world. Doing the same spamming HW FATEs wouldn't be as efficient as it would take longer to reach, with different altitudes with flying. Northen thanalan was popular because it was small, easy to reach and easy to "leech" by tanks and healers doing aoe heals and aoe enmity, and also a LOT of bots (for the same reason, easily and fast reachable fates).