Why?

[Hasrat]

The reward is secondary. The party does not need to work 8 times as hard to receive a gold rating, because the game recognizes the party as a whole; it's not calculating each individual's performance within the party to assess what the party's rating should be. The party functions as a unit. You, outside of a party, also function as a unit. Does your contribution, as a unit, equate to a party's contribution?

[Palmyy]

fact is, and indeed the entire reason for this thread is, it should not matter how you want to kill it.

[KageTokage]

I'd suggest leveling WAR or DRK for situations like this.

I don't know about gold, but I've been to get silver solo by just spamming my high enmity attacks.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

What job were you? While its your choice to join a party or not, if you chose not to, you'll want to gear out and roll a tank to high level fates like ixion, as FATE contribution is based on enmity, rather than dps. Tanks can generate TONS more enmity than dps can ever generate it through aggro combo spams.

If you were on a tank, then either the fate was very populated, as the more people involved with the fate, the harder it becomes to get gold as your contribution is compared to against every other person/party there in the FATE, or if there was a minimal amount of people there, either you didn't generate enough enmity to earn higher than bronze, or if you didn't even receive bronze at all the game could have glitched.

For Ixion, getting higher than bronze is insanely tough solo, and joining a party is near-mandatory if rewards are what you want.

[AppleJinx]

Welp I guess you'll know to join a party next time for things like this in the future.

[alimdia]

fact is, and indeed the entire reason for this thread is, it should not matter how you want to kill it.

Well, the real developers decided it should matter, so if you want a better chance to get full contribution you should consider taking the 3 seconds worth of effort and ask for a party invite.

[DeaconMoore]

Literally never played another mmo that has done it before, so this needs to be changed

Oh the good old days back on the WoW PvP server waging war on the horde for the kill rights on the world bosses... Yes, we had to aggressively negotiate at times which raid was going to get the tag in, yes WoW is an mmo. No, this doesn't need to be changed.

"/y invite please" is your friend.

[MeridaQ]

As everyone else has pointed out it is based on your contribution (emnity). If he was killed quickly with a lot of people fighting him. “Your” contribution had also a shorter window to get credit, even if you were there for the “whole” fate. 10 minutes of effort is much less than 2. If you want to roll solo I would suggest getting a Stygian ash and using it on him to buff your contribution and spam emnity combos as a tank. (The ash is a tip I heard of seems to work but not 100%)

[ServerCollaps]

its the same with every fate and hunt in the game lol..

4 steps to fix it for you:

- type "/shout lfg"
- click the "accept" button
- ???
- Profit

[Balipu]

fact is, and indeed the entire reason for this thread is, it should not matter how you want to kill it.

But unless you can do as much damage as a full pary on your own, it does matter.