Dark Devices - Phase 1 Exploit

[Devilray]

Compared to other exploits, this grinding is very tame. Are we duping items? No. Are we abusing a glitch that gives us 1,000,000 XP with no effort? No. You have to put in effort to kill the mobs to get XP for 10+ minutes straight. If you found a way to skip a whole dungeon, I would say that is much more serious exploit than a simple grind XP fest. If they were to fix this grinding issue in fetch FATEs or the DD FATE, they would have to seriously rework how mobs spawn in these kind of FATEs. And considering how freaking easy it is to get 1-99 in FFXI Abyssesa, I don't see how grinding can be a problem in this game with a similar, multiple jobs system. I think it's a very nice change in pace from all the questing and running around doing FATEs.

And I hardly got that much XP from grinding because so many parties were competing for mob kills.

[Badger]

Compared to other exploits, this grinding is very tame. Are we duping items? No. Are we abusing a glitch that gives us 1,000,000 XP with no effort? No. You have to put in effort to kill the mobs to get XP for 10+ minutes straight.

And I hardly got that much XP from grinding because so many parties were competing for mob kills.

Normal world mobs have longer spawn times and are not so densely packed, so you can't compare this to good old fashioned open-world chain farming. Again, if this were commonplace in the game that would be one thing, but this is the only place (that I know of) where you can make 245,000 XP in under 20 minutes if you complete the whole chain.

When every other FATE in the game at this level rewards between 12,000-45,000 XP, you cannot honestly say this is working as intended. If it were the Lambs of Dalamud wouldn't be the target; it'd be a "Survive copious amounts of pissed off mobs for fifteen minutes."

[Valsh]

Normal world mobs have longer spawn times and are not so densely packed, so you can't compare this to good old fashioned open-world chain farming. Again, if this were commonplace in the game that would be one thing, but this is the only place (that I know of) where you can make 245,000 XP in under 20 minutes if you complete the whole chain.

When every other FATE in the game at this level rewards between 12,000-45,000 XP, you cannot honestly say this is working as intended. If it were the Lambs of Dalamud wouldn't be the target; it'd be a "Survive copious amounts of pissed off mobs for fifteen minutes."

It's absolutely not intended, but that doesn't instantly classify it as an exploit. It's an oversight that developers missed and i'm sure they'll adjust that specific fate appropriately next patch.