Why only FATES?

[Nictuswolf]

What!?

A way to level outside the norm? NERF!

OT: I do dungeons, FATEs, leves w/e. It all gets boring to me so I switch it up, tired of FATEs? Queue for dungeons which is normally what i do.

They shouldn't nerf FATE xp, just buff dungeon/Leve XP, I also wish they would let the guildhiests bonus reward either reset weekly or be independent for every class.

[Arec]

Take advantage those combination and spam them to lvl up very fast and meet random people. Be nice and respect other players

thing about FATEs and dungeon grinding and such is that... No one stops to chat during a FATE and it doesnt last long enough to just casually grind monsters.
You cant even play with people from other servers when meeting others over dungeon queue.

and literally you never hear about that open world monster grinding either. Literally no zone with elite mobs you can do that either.

[Crica]

Why is it that FATEs seem to be the only thing that gives a good amount of exp worth doing?

what do you mean "worth" doing?

what is "worth" doing for you may not be for others

to me, running dungeons is more fun then running fates

i dont care how much xp i get an hour, i care if i have FUN getting xp

[oberonQA]

I'm level 44 and I do what I think is a pretty even balance between Coerthas FATE grinding and Stone Vigil (curse you, Ancient Sword!!!!). I prefer FATE grinding because of the GC seals... but I also like doing Stone Vigil because it gives me Tombstones. At the end of the day, however, you do whatever you want to do.

I disagree with the idea of nerfing FATE xp. If you want S-E to nerf that, might as well have them nerf storyline quest XP while they are at it, since from what I've seen, FATE's give out as much XP as a storyline quest... for what amounts to just about the same amount of time and effort. But yet, I don't seem to see people calling for a nerf of storyline XP. Strange observation there....

[Yashnaheen]

I prefer FATEs for exp/sb when my LS isn't on leveling stuff. Running dungeons past Longstop in PUGs gives me a headache.

Leves aren't really that bad but I save them for crafting.

[Vantwan]

This is also why there are so many garbage high-level players, is because they never actually learned how to play the game.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

If you are realizing this because you're trying to level a class that you didn't start with, they actually get bonus exp in relation to the level gap between the side class and your main class. This bonus experience only applies to slaying monsters and doing Fates though, and this is done specifically so that veteran players don't completely ignore Fate events and so that they actually succeed most of the time. The random nature of Fate events make it difficult to farm though, making it so that doing Hunting Logs and completing quests are still a far better use of time while a Fate event isn't near.

[Onnslaught]

What!?

A way to level outside the norm? NERF!

OT: I do dungeons, FATEs, leves w/e. It all gets boring to me so I switch it up, tired of FATEs? Queue for dungeons which is normally what i do.

They shouldn't nerf FATE xp, just buff dungeon/Leve XP, I also wish they would let the guildhiests bonus reward either reset weekly or be independent for every class.

I think most people have no problem with FATE's being a legit way to level. The problem a lot of us have is that FATE's give the most (by far) XP, seals AND FC ranking up points. And no, don't buff dungeon and leve XP please. FATE spamming levels people up way too fast. There were people level 50 on day 1 of release. So that is 3 days, max 4 days to hit max level.

I'm level 44 and I do what I think is a pretty even balance between Coerthas FATE grinding and Stone Vigil (curse you, Ancient Sword!!!!). I prefer FATE grinding because of the GC seals... but I also like doing Stone Vigil because it gives me Tombstones. At the end of the day, however, you do whatever you want to do.

I disagree with the idea of nerfing FATE xp. If you want S-E to nerf that, might as well have them nerf storyline quest XP while they are at it, since from what I've seen, FATE's give out as much XP as a storyline quest... for what amounts to just about the same amount of time and effort. But yet, I don't seem to see people calling for a nerf of storyline XP. Strange observation there....

If you put someone side by side in FATE group and someone running through the story quests as fast as they can I guarantee the person spamming FATE's are going to stomp the other person in levels. FATE's spawn really fast and give as much or more XP as quests yet require next to zero effort.

[Jennestia]

Why is it that FATEs seem to be the only thing that gives a good amount of exp worth doing?

Guildwars 2 was the "new kid on the block" at the time they were working on ARR while maintaining the 'standard' set forth by WoW.

[TitaniaZero]

How many of you realize that the storyline questies are dried up by lvl 45-47? Yep. If you leveled straight up, perhaps were adverse to the Fate thing, one might find making 49 harder without Fates/Dungeons. Yep. I'm 48.5... My Hunter's log may get me to 49. But after that... a whole 500+k has to be grinded from some other source... And I find the Fates to be terrible. The Whole Northern Thanalan Fate system seems to be the answer and a great big curse. I have had no luck there while apparently others have.

What choice will I have? Either a dungeon, my Leves (Thankfully maybe I have over 70 now), or... Fates will allow me to get my single first class to 50. What will my secondary, third, ect classes have to do to level? That's right.... grind. IMO... there weren't enough quests.