FATE System -- Worst Idea Imaginable

[Drekor]

FATEs have several issues. They are very similar to dynamic events from guild wars 2. Right down to the culling issue. In GW2 everyone was DPS though, and you didn't need to necessarily target anything so having visual on mobs was not important. In ARR you do need to target most things and in addition casters often get screwed because in the time it takes to cast a spell the mob is already done from the 100 other people doing it. FATEs are also the only reliable way to get a good amount of seals. Only other one is leve's but you have a limited amount of them.

As many have pointed out as well because of how many people are at them and how easy they are you do not learn to play your class at all and things get a lot more unforgiving as you level up. The average player going from FATEs to dungeons and hardmodes is going to fail hard. Some people will know what they are doing but they are the exception.

[Ardbob]

Once servers calm down and less people are playing so frequently, FATEs should be a lot less crowded. However, they do provide a lot more experience than anything else, so they'll still be more crowded than other things for the most part. I personally think they should cut FATE exp by a LITTLE (not much at all, but somewhat) and increase experience gained from levequests and dungeons.

[Cingen]

I level through FATES and the main story quest mainly, but for a specific reason.

I plan to level all classes to cap eventually, and I realise that over time less people will be doing FATES because they're at level cap, so I just thought: Why not go with FATES now while the people are there and save the quests for leveling other classes once I may struggle finding other people to play with?

[Cingen]

Oops double post, ignore this

[Balzaque]

IMO if they scaled the mobs better to accommodate more players then it would be ok, every time im leveling and i find a fate and there is just the right amount of players there then it is fun, when there is too much ppl you hardly can get a hit on any mob unless you spam aoe

[Reitrenner]

FATEs suck the life out of this great game.

[Zsavooz]

yep! Baal runs from Diablo 2. Fates killed this game. Bah! Meh!

[Raansu]

I feel like the FATES should be more like world bosses than what they currently are now which is just a group of mobs spawning over and over.

[Meleoron]

i want to echo all the talk of AOE spam and just pure zerg mindset that fates are. I avoid them now, which is harming my EXP. I just am so bored of AOE AOE AOE dead. we might as well just be standing there pressing one button again and again, which is in fact what we are doing. I feel that fates. The idea of sudden public quests are a great idea. However they have been planned out poorly.

I would like to see each zone having one big boss fate that spawns every few hours. A boss that plays out a lot like higher level instance bosses do. It would be nice if Fates felt flashyl if they felt a lil hard at the very last. The game has a few problems and fates being mostly trash is near the top of the list.

[Twins]

FATE is bad for an MMO, I know it's a straight copy off GW2, but GW2 is a free to play game.
I don't have much expectation from that game, but FF14 is different. FF11 involved a lot of group grinding, and it was extremely hard to level, I understand that game model does not work in 2013, but FF14ARR made it too easy with FATE grind

The worse thing is FATE parties, they will have a least a few blackmages spamming AOE at the spawn areas, making it really difficult for people outside those parties to gain a gold or even a silver medal from these FATEs. As a gladiator, with limited AOE abilities, I am unable to give a monster a second hit before my second global cooldown finishes.

Now, this is really unfair for people like myself, who wants to enjoy all aspects of the game, quests, leves, FATE, dungeons etc....because I don't want to belong to a FATE grind party.

Also, I know a few friends, will auto follow members of these FATE parties, and AFK to leech experience and seals.