[BUG/EXPLOIT] Dark Devices - Phase One

[Badger]

Dark Devices is a four stage L:49 fate that spawns in Northern Thanalan. The first phase is pretty obviously not working as intended, allowing players to farm infinite fast-spawning spawning mobs while completely ignoring the mobs that the FATE wants you to target. 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. A completely "farmed" Dark Devices phase one yields the equivalent of about completing 20 other FATEs with the gold reward. This is way out of whack and is causing hostile behavior towards players who do not want to exploit phase one and try to progress the chain as intended.

This is an XP exploit and quality of life issue on par with "speed runs" of certain L:50 instances and needs to be fixed ASAP.

[Sumii]

I had submitted my bug report following the proper format prior to this post, however they moved mine into the Duplicate Bug section. I've checked each/every post in Accepted, Not a Bug, Working as Intended, etc. and yet there isn't a single bug report in those regarding this. That leaves me to guess that they're making this the sole bug report for Dark Devices. In any case it needs to be sorted out and taken care of so we can get past the toxic community problems its causing in game due to this potential exploit.

[danteafk]

No it`s not.

[Sumii]

No it`s not.

Luckily for the community, what you say is an exploit/bug and what's not isn't what matters. Hence why this is here.

[Laryndra]

Its not an exploit, and can be done in any leve that is "Turn in items". If it wasn't intended levequest mobs wouldn't give exp.