Indicator to tell FATE's scaling power

[Kranel_San]

I think they should scale based on players participating, instead of how many players participated last time. Like, come on, if your going to copy someone elses work, at least don't make it wilfully inferior just to be different.

But it has been years, so we can surmise that it's "working as intended". Ugh...

Basically this.
Its discouraging when FATEs takes long to complete. I'd rather prefer a more dynamic scaling

[ICountFrom0]

I WANT this to be something subtle, like a shading. Red for highly scaled, green for underscaled, but there's people for whom that would be unfair.

I'm not sure how you could fix scaling to be honest. If it was scaled to the curent number, then trolls could just slide in, pump up the number, do nothing and force it to fail. As long as it's based on the last time it's completed, it can't be too far off from sanity.

[Xirean]

Perhaps a scaling based on how many players are currently on the map?

[Kyrj]

Honestly, it's probably not even on their radar. FATEs are just another half assed system at this point.

Would I like them to be awesome? Sure, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Bsrking5]

I don't think all fates scale. Some go really quick when people join after all.

Thats not how the scaling works. It reads how many players received exp the last few times it was active and scales up or down with the player count. The only ones that don't are the super world boss fates that have special spawn requirements. The only thing thats scales is hp on boss fates, kill count on multi kill or turn in count on turn ins.

[Bsrking5]

Honestly, i'd be happy if participating rewarding scaled past the gold tier. It doesnt need more visible tiers, but when you hit gold tier it doesn't reward more to keep going and if its scaled much higher than current players its not that rewarding to do it.

[hagare]

Perhaps a scaling based on how many players are currently on the map?

oh God no.
That's the worst.
having 100 people on the map and being the only one doing FATE would suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

[Rongway]

I didn't know that fates scaled. Where did you hear that?

They've always done this. If there are a lot of people doing FATEs in the zone, the FATES will scale up in difficulty. It takes them a bit to scale back down when things die down and it's down to just one or two people in the zones.

Cool, I was moreso asking for a source on it.

Patch 2.1 Notes

The following changes have been made to FATEs:

• New FATEs have been added.
• A FATE's difficulty will now be determined by the number of players who participated in the previous [sic]
• Enemies and NPCs which are central to FATE objectives such as Odin and the behemoth will now have the highest display priority.

It cuts off like that in the patch notes, but it means each FATE remembers the number of people who participated last time that specific FATE popped and scales accordingly.