Am just DONE with Fox Lady Fate

[Pondera]

okay, so you tie a special boss FATE's appearance to doing 2 other fates. Fair enough. And then, after completing that chain, if the boss had appeared within a certain time before that, it will not spawn again, and there is no indication if that happened and you're just wasting your time. And even THEN, when the thing does spawn, more often than not, the time limit of its appearance is so short that the hunting linkshells haven't even managed to find the thing yet and organize themselves into parties before they have to pull it out of necessity. And FURTHER STILL, most of the time, time expires with it still with 35-50% health, and everyone involved gets.....

wait for it...

NOTHING!

So yeah... I'm done trying to make attempts at this. This is just poorly designed and frustrating as heck. I mean, pardon me for sounding entitled, but if you make the investment, you should get a little something for your time, should you not? Please, SE, fix this nonsense.

[SuperZay]

This FATE drops 15 items with Gold rating. You need just 12 to buy everything from the shop. There's no reason to do it more than once in your lifetime, making it incompletable for the rest of expansion for a few people that still want to do it which is poorly designed as well.

[Pondera]

This FATE drops 15 items with Gold rating. You need just 12 to buy everything from the shop. There's no reason to do it more than once in your lifetime, making it incompletable for the rest of expansion for a few people that still want to do it which is poorly designed as well.

Completing this with a gold rating is, for some reason, something I seem to be unable to do. The only results I've gotten so far from this is 1 stone or nothing at all. Like, I've got 3 stones in my retainer's inventory right now from 3 separate attempts, not to mention all the failures, one of which was just a few minutes ago. So you'll excuse me if I'm a bit miffed. A simple aesthetic should NOT be this hard to acquire.

[HyoMinPark]

Is this an issue on other servers? O.o Not being able to find her/running out of time? Doesn't her FATE have the usual "Boss FATE" timer of 30 minutes? That should be more than enough time to down her, and there's plenty of time after completing the FATE chain to scout for her. From what I understand, while her spawn doesn't show up on the large map, she still has specific spots where she spawns, so just dispatching a party to thoroughly scout the map should be more than enough at finding her (her FATE does show up on your minimap).

I've done the Foxy Lady FATE multiple times with groups ranging from 20-ish people to so many that the instance was unstable and people were red-dotting everywhere. The last time I did the FATE was about 4am EST with maybe 3 full parties of 8. We pulled with 15 minutes left on the timer (this was after finding her and waiting about 5+ minutes for party members to arrive at the right instance, etc.) and she was down 5-7 minutes after that. Anecdotal, of course, but it doesn't require a massive amount of people (50+ or some other large number) to complete if people are semi-decent/competent at their jobs (and if the party with the MT has at least one healer). An group of 24-32 players should be more than enough for it.

While it's frustrating not knowing if she has already spawned during her 24-hour spawn timer (unless they changed it, last I heard she only spawned once every 24 hours per instance), my server has various LS set up just for monitoring her FATE and her spawn times. Sometimes a simple /shout in the instances is enough to discover if she has spawned recently or not as well. I believe her spawn time after the Kinko/Ginko/Outfoxed FATEs (you have to do all three) is about an hour or so, real time. Parties on my server actively hunting for her tend to split up to cover her usual spawn locations after completing Outfoxed.

If it's just tokens you're after and not the achievement, you can do the smaller "Outfoxed" FATE, which will spawn roughly every 2-ish hours after completing Kinko and Ginko's FATEs. Gold yields one token. 3 tokens are enough to get the minion and/or a fox plushie housing item, and 6 tokens are required for the little fox ears head piece. May take a bit more time, but easier to do (Outfoxed can easily be downed by a Light Party with Chocobos), and would probably be a bit less stressful on you.

[Ghastly]

This FATE drops 15 items with Gold rating. You need just 12 to buy everything from the shop. There's no reason to do it more than once in your lifetime, making it incompletable for the rest of expansion for a few people that still want to do it which is poorly designed as well.

This is the problem yeah...I pray/hope they add new fox items/glamour that we can buy using this fate's tokens. Maybe a high ilevel weapon or something like that could be fun, make it cost 50 of the tokens or something. Or maybe let us buy special materia with these tokens..

[Pondera]

This is the problem yeah...I pray/hope they add new fox items/glamour that we can buy using this fate's tokens. Maybe a high ilevel weapon or something like that could be fun, make it cost 50 of the tokens or something. Or maybe let us buy special materia with these tokens..

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[Amariel34]

The other problem is it appears only once every 12 hours. For people that have a full time job and/or family obligations, it's hard to get on when someone spawns it. Which could also be 2am for some. It either needs a consistent reset time, like say 5pm or some other prime time hour, or to reset more often. I'd prefer more often, personally. But that's just my opinion.

[Ghastly]

Pondera are you joining a party when you do this fate? Getting gold rating in a party is/should be easier. Are you dps? healer? Healer should get it easier just healing/ressing people. Easiest is with tank though (using your enmity skills on boss). Just make sure to join a party (party finder) or with fc.

[Vaer]

Currently it only grants an achievement at gold rating. After that it's pretty pointless reward wise. The stones you can get from farming Outfoxed which is way less frustrating since it can spawn every 2 hours give or take and doesn't require as many people and even easier currently with 3 separate map copies.

[Fawkes]

I had more than 12 nuggets from Outfoxed before ever even seeing the big FATE. As terribly designed as it is, it's better than every other big FATE they've made because at least you can get the items through effort and not just luck.