Conclusion: We really like FATES, but lie to ourselves.

[Shurrikhan]

More FATEs and more content like FATEs, please. Hopefully with some scaled rewards so that everyone is incentivized to do them.

To be honest, I feel like 99% of the issue I have with FATEs is that they've been presented as an exhaustive answer to all opportunities open world.

It feels kind of like "You got your circle with waves of braindead mobs or a HP-overladen striking dummy with the occasional AoE, so be happy about it and don't ask for anything further!"

If the devs had shown any intention to improve upon or add to open world systems, I'd still consider FATEs disappointing, but I wouldn't look on them outright negatively.

I love open world content when it's done well. FATEs, though, are not well done. They're barebone and lack even any sense of isolation or cohesion (you just do them while waiting on other things for the most part, or else screw over any solo levelers by consequence of your FATE train party whom they'll either never see because you're operating on a completely different side of the zone or will hardly be able to compete against unless on tank classes or pre-tagging everything). That FATEs are all we get, and all we're likely ever to get (and in the same form we've always had them), feels like a slap to the face.