I'm currently grinding for the ARR relic weapons and have to do the step with the books. I don't have a problem at all with any of the stuff you have to do for this. Except FATEs.

Specific FATEs? No problem - if I didn't have to wait for ages for some of them to respawn, not knowing when they would do so. 5 minutes? 30 minutes? 2 hours? It's impossible to tell.

Hence why I would suggest to add actual FATE timers in-game. I'm not talking about the ones that give achievements and/or minions, only the "normal" FATEs. It would make the grind a lot more enjoyable and less annoying.

Or, alternatively, you could do something like a maximum respawn time, let's say 15 minutes or so. Knowing that if a FATE is not there yet or just despawned, you wouldn't have to wait more than 15 minutes also makes the whole thing a lot less annoying and frustrating.

Just my 2 cents. Feel free to give your own opinion on this.