WORLD BOSS FATES >:(

[LibitIncarne]

I too really dislike the world boss system, it is completly unclear when or how to spawn one of these bosses, so far i know they are part of a long fate chain, but their spawn cooldown is absurdly long, and also the fates are not shown on the map, so you dont even know when its there.
I think i have killed the world bosses just enough times during the expansion to get all rewards, that means one kill in 6 months.
They might spawn when i am at work, or sleeping, or just not logged in and then it is a week long cooldown to happen again.

If you read the flavor text, you'd see that the face chains lead up to something.
The "absurdly long" is actually only 36-72 hours long. Dawntrail are 24-72 hours.
In the 7.0 Patch Notes (https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...918edb036b3004), the Shadowbringers and Endwalker Rare FATEs (And Dawntrail) now show up on the map when they're spawned.

Shadowbringers-
Formidable - Fair point, but both FATEs have the name.
Archaeotania - Every single FATE's flavor text says that this Ondo is looking for Archaeotania because he wants to kill it or prevent other Ondo from using it for nefarious purposes.

Endwalker-
Daivadipa - You are helping pilgrims get to where their god may be. Unfortunately, it's a false one from the Tower of Zot.
Chi - The Omicron you're helping managed to get a connection to this extremely powerful fighter. Unfortunately, you need to kill it to get that data.

Dawntrail-
Serpentlord - Read the flavor text. Three of the 4 FATEs refer to the Serpentlord and how you're helping this bounty hunter... hunt it.
Mica - Hey kid wanna be in a magical parade of funtime and death? Maybe we'll even see Mica the magical Mu to seal your FATE!

[Infindox]

I actually kinda enjoy the world fates as they are, because they encourage people to get together and try and pop it. Some hilarious moments have occurred during when Chi was new and now with the snake. Good also to show up even if you already have the mount for gems and exp.

[wigleht]

was mica playtested with zoomhacks?

[alfarini]

World boss fates are a bad system. I spent 15 hours trying to get the world boss fate to spawn only for it to die in 10 seconds and I'm unable to get a hit in on it. I feel cheated and used. The fact the system requires me to wait sooooo long do all this work to then have it die instantly. I hate it. The system is archaic and does account for the 200 people waiting in the instances for it to spawn. Its a system that doesn't reward actually doing anything beyond waiting.

Idk maybe a better way of doing it, is if your in the instance on the map and it spawns and dies, everyone in the map gets the rewards. If people want to sit and wait at the boss cool. But dont punish the people that are in the map doing the fate chains to get it to spawn.

Must be new here, it's got a chance to spawn in a 48 hour window. It's not a guarantee at all, I spent 20 hours there for it to not spawn, was I mad? No disappointed? For sure but hey it's an MMO, and it's a RARE fate. The word rare ought to mean something right? For now when people get the mount and the glam set from the other fate it's special and slightly rare. Later on it will be easier to get because there's less clogged instances so your connection won't be as affected. Also we're you in a party? If so all you had to do was hit it once as long as there's a few tanks that stay alive you get full credit. Now if you weren't in a party that's your fault, fates and hunt marks work of enmity and not damage. The final fate is literally right next to where it spawns. How did you not immediately go to the spawn of the boss and wait? Sounds like winging and not constructive criticism.

[alfarini]

was mica playtested with zoomhacks?

Do some of you not pan your cam up and zoom out? It's not hard to pan your camera to see the numbered sections. It's a simple memory game, and if your aren't sure you can just follow the zerg army of WOL's.

[alfarini]

What world boss dies in 10 seconds? FATEs scale you to their level.

If a zone has let's say 40 people in it the fates scale to that and I think it also takes in proximity aswell but not entirely sure. So when one does spawn and a zerg comes in it the fate won't adjust and it can die fast. Now I haven't seen any of these fates die so quick like that, mainly because there's at least 200 people waiting. I went to the 6th zone fate and it had 1.5 billion health......500 people waiting there when it spawned. On my server people wait a few minutes after it's up so people have a chance to zone in and find a party. Depends on the server ofc.

[wigleht]

Do some of you not pan your cam up and zoom out? It's not hard to pan your camera to see the numbered sections. It's a simple memory game, and if your aren't sure you can just follow the zerg army of WOL's.

why would i pan my camera for 1 open world boss?
besides, default zoom isn't enough for a lot of content now.
most recently leonogg from 100 dungeon, the circling pots go out of your pov because the entire arena isnt visible from any angle.

hence

is the content tested with zoomhacks?

[alfarini]

why would i pan my camera for 1 open world boss?
besides, default zoom isn't enough for a lot of content now.

So you can see what's going on?? Like by all means don't use your camera and angle it accordingly depending on situation. And mald about it being tested with "zoom hacks". Not my problem you can't play with your camera settings or manipulate it mid combat to your advantage, Skill issue.

[Jojoya]

why would i pan my camera for 1 open world boss?
besides, default zoom isn't enough for a lot of content now.
most recently leonogg from 100 dungeon, the circling pots go out of your pov because the entire arena isnt visible from any angle.

hence

is the content tested with zoomhacks?

I don't think it's being tested with zoomhacks but I do think it's being tested with monitors and resolutions that most players aren't using. Most of the time I feel like if I could zoom out just a little bit farther, I'd be able to see everything I need to be seeing.

[Blindheart]

I feel like rare fates as well as hunts should have some sort of manual trigger mechanism, so it’s not all just right place at the right time or wait for zergfest to hit the zone. Maybe tie it into relic systems so you have to spawn and kill specific enemies. Person with proper quest progress can gather group, spawn required creature, they get quest progress, other players get special currency for glams or mounts or whatever.