Dark Devices - Phase 1 Exploit

[Badger]

Dark Devices is a four stage L:49 FATE that spawns in Northern Thanalan. The first phase is poorly designed, allowing players to farm infinitely spawning mobs while completely ignoring the target mobs that spawn near the mine entrance. What results is approximately 14:30 of people spamming AOE and doing nothing else in order to earn anywhere from 10,000 to 200,000 XP depending on the quality (and luck) of their group.

Any players who attempt to complete the FATE as intended (read: killing Lambs of Dalamud) in a timely manner receive the ire of those exploiting the event, including harassment through tells, shout, and false reports accusing players of botting (amusing since standing in one spot and spamming AOEs is more bot-like behavior than doing a FATE as intended) or RMT spamming.

This is an XP and quality of life exploit on par with "speed runs" of certain L:50 instances and needs to be fixed ASAP. FATEs should encourage players to complete the objectives, but this FATE currently encourages players to ignore the objectives until the last minute.

This needs to be changed so that the mobs only spawn near the target mobs, or that the target mobs charge into the fight as soon as the non-target mobs are engaged. That way this fate can progress as intended. The other three phases of the fate are working as intended.