Please increase the Darkscale Devoureth timer to 30 minutes

[Mockingbird]

I'm not really sure where to post something like this, but after 7 failed attempts at getting the achievement in the past couple of months for the Darkscale Devoureth FATE in the Churning Mists I'm getting pretty frustrated.

Today was the closest I managed to get to the achievement. Myself and the 3 other people interested in completing it got the FATE down to 19% remaining before running out of time.

4 people is not enough to complete the FATE, but unfortunately the FATE gives nothing noteworthy so trying to get people to help has proven to be very difficult. Despite announcing it to my FC and a very active Hunt/FATE linkshell I was only able to rope 1 other person in to help. It's also a FATE which has to be started immediately otherwise it'll fail due to the NPC dragon being killed - making it painful for Cross World parties to be formed.

I probably sound like I'm simply whinging, but the reason I'm posting here is because all other Heavensward FATEs have a 30 minute timer whereas this one only gives 15 minutes. If the time was upped to 20 or 30 minutes a small party would have no problem completing it.

I'm sure I'll get the achievement eventually, but failing over and over again due to a lack of interest from anyone when the FATE is up is proving to be very discouraging.

Dear Square Enix, please consider upping the timer for this FATE to make it more bearable.

[Jojoya]

Word of the FATE should be spread as soon as Darkscale Descendeth appears instead of waiting for the final one to spawn. That way there's already a descent sized group for completing Darkscale Descendeth well within the 15 minutes minutes. In a way, all 3 in the chain could be considered a single FATE so that actually gives you up to 45 minutes (as long as you have a WHM to keep Vedrfolnir alive longer on the first FATE).

It helps to join active hunt linkshells and Discords, especially cross world. Most will also relay achievement FATEs. You'll usually get a decent sized group to appear because so many players want to be getting those achievements and there are usually some already with the achievements that like to help out others get them as well.

[Mockingbird]

Word of the FATE should be spread as soon as Darkscale Descendeth appears instead of waiting for the final one to spawn. That way there's already a descent sized group for completing Darkscale Descendeth well within the 15 minutes minutes. In a way, all 3 in the chain could be considered a single FATE so that actually gives you up to 45 minutes (as long as you have a WHM to keep Vedrfolnir alive longer on the first FATE).

It helps to join active hunt linkshells and Discords, especially cross world. Most will also relay achievement FATEs. You'll usually get a decent sized group to appear because so many players want to be getting those achievements and there are usually some already with the achievements that like to help out others get them as well.

Yep, I did that. I shared it in 2 different Hunt linkshells I'm part of on my main server along with an active Faloop CWLS - once when Darkscale Descendeth appeared and again when the achievement FATE itself appeared. What didn't help yesterday is that an S rank location was shared shortly after my first share and a hunt train was going on during the second one. The only thing I didn't do was share it directly on Discord, but being the healer and only having 1 monitor didn't give me much of an opportunity to do that.

Like I said in my post I think the main problem is that it doesn't really give anything interesting. The next FATE in the chain gives a set of barding, but the Darkscale Devoureth itself only gives a now completely useless belt. From my experience people just aren't interested in joining in as there's very little incentive to do so.

Two of the HW achievement FATEs, On Dangerous Ground (Sea of Clouds) and We Fought a Dzu (Coerthas Western Highlands) can both be soloed and very easily completed by a party of 4. Both of those have a 30 minute timer, as do all of the other HW achievement FATEs including Vedrfolnir Devoteth and Coeurls Chase Boys Chase Coeurls which are also part of a chain of FATEs. Upping Darkscale Devoureth to 30 minutes would give a party of 4 more than enough time to complete it.