Those who are not yet level 50 with their primary class do not yet understand how painful it is to level a second class. Once you get to that point and there are literally zero quests in the entire world to do, and you say to yourself, "Welp, I can go chase FATES or sit here and kill mobs for 200xp a pop", you're realize exactly what we mean.

Chasing FATEs seems like a cool idea...for about the first 10 minutes, until it becomes more of a chore trying to do enough damage fast enough to get gold credit, due to all the AoE spam from the mages. Re-mount, race to the next spot, repeat over and over. Ya, not fun. An awful lot of work for what turns out to be the occasional gold reward, but mostly just silver and sometimes bronze.

I prefer the guaranteed set exp from sidequests. And the Leves are crap xp, too.