Unable to enjoy FATEs

[Datu]

So glad I'm not alone in feeling this way about FATES. I disliked this type of feature in games such as GW2 and Rift. It this mindless Zerg where it doesn't matter what you do anymore. No effort needed with zero consequence for the best XP and seal rewards in the game. No wonder people are exploiting it. The path of least resistance and all. Even I'm doing FATEs for the seals so i can buy the 10k restat item (made a booboo due to allocating points while half asleep).

But if it weren't for the seals, I'd opt to do dungeons and smaller, more intimate affairs.

[texhnolyze]

i feel you OP

i think Fates are designed halfheartedly
i prefer the dynamic events from R*FT and G*2
they have the back stories and most are chained
while Fates are, going all around the map for almost no purpose
i do notice that there are a number of chained Fates, but that's all..

sadly, Fate is the fastest way to gain rewards such as exp and seals

[FTNIceberg]

what are these drops??? i've opened levelquest chests and read item received and haveyet to find the mystery item, but FATE's have yet to give me anything besides EXP Gil and a headache from trying to target between 100 players and the gang of random not aggressive creatures that just happen to spawn

[Kroktar]

I have fun on fates....but there are like...30% of them which arent designed agaisnt zerg....
So everything dies so fast and its annoying and frustrating to participate in them.
If the mobs manages to live at least more than a fucking second i can enjoy it...lol

[Palinq]

As someone else said FATEs being boring isn't really a problem - they'll become more enjoyable when there's less people leveling. I think the real problem, though, is that there's really no good alternative to fate grinding once you use up quests. Dungeons give far too little experience - same with chain bonus for grinding. I'd personally like to see the following:

- Make the "chain bonus" for grinding off mobs a little better (it shouldn't be as good as fates/dungeons etc.. but it should be higher)
- Up the XP in dungeons or give bonus XP charges (daily/weekly - doesn't matter) for using raid finder
- Slight bonus xp if you "pug" raid finder

- Add more quests!

[catch22atplay]

It's a boring zerg fest that i do not enjoy at all. Seems rather pointless to me and with tab targeting working so horribly it's just frustrating.

[Datu]

Add seal rewards in dungeons. Maybe not as much as leves or FATEs because gear already drops but something to give players another 'unlimited' source of seals. I say unlimited because leves has an allowance.

[Broongoon]

Don't like them, never participate in them unless one spawns next to where I'm questing. Not my cup of tea.

[billydata21]

I like doing FATEs, but I do agree that most are boring. And a lot of the time the mobs don't show up on my screen because there are so many people there, which ruins the whole FATE.

But it is really the only way to level after you've done your hunting log and main story quest.

I thought levequests would be a way to lvl but the exp you get in them is so low, its stupid.

Like someone else said it would be awesome if they brought back skirmish from 1.0.

[Jayded]

Fates are a horrid abomination. There's nothing remotely enjoyable about tabbing as fast as you can and pressing an instant skill trying to get tags, or in the case of most (looking at you BLMs) standing and spamming that ice shit. Literally so many people spamming aoes for tags that my sound gets cut out/choppy. So many people at fates that the mobs and players further than a few feet away start to disappear. This is on a high end PC. I don't do fates unless they spawn on top of me now. I feel you are required to be a true simpleton to enjoy fates in their current state. Sorry.