Fed up already

[geekgirl101]

I really do take back a lot of what I said during the beta phases. This game has turned into a horrendous monstrosity.

FATE spams are brain melting, there's no skill involved in them and they're being hammered by so many players that half the time I get little or no credit for participating.

Waiting queues for dungeons are awful, guildleves are supposed to introduce new players to following strategies most of them don't give a darn. "Avoid being spotted by the goobbue" yet most parties ignore the warnings and pull everything at once and survive. What's the point in a strategy if failing to follow the rules means you still live?

I'm at a stage where I need to grind 2-3 levels before I can pick up new quests, I'd fill in with leves but because gathering jobs have NO BOOSTS to them I'm having to save all my leves for those instead, which means boring grind or following the herds of mindless drones who don't bother to toss a cure or a raise before moving to the next FATE.

[Asiaine]

Could you use (Survival?) manuals from the Grand Company.. I believe they give a boost to XP from Gathering jobs. Also you can collect good seals from doing FATEs to pay for the manuals. Also not sure if that stacks with Rested XP and Food (it used to in 1.0 but I have not tried in 2.0)

[AridElf]

Could you use (Survival?) manuals from the Grand Company.. I believe they give a boost to XP from Gathering jobs. Also you can collect good seals from doing FATEs to pay for the manuals. Also not sure if that stacks with Rested XP and Food (it used to in 1.0 but I have not tried in 2.0)

Sure does stack, I get +103% on my first gathering attempt per node suggesting my 50% rest bonus, 50% manual bonus and 3% food bonus all stack together.

[geekgirl101]

Could you use (Survival?) manuals from the Grand Company.

Oh you mean the buffs? They don't boost a great deal from what I've seen. It's only what 5%? And with each tree giving maybe 180-200 xp per swing then you're only getting an additional 10 xp per swing.

How are you winding up dead in FATEs?

Nobody cures because they don't get xp for curing, so all the healers spam aero. If it's a boss people ignore adds, so you have to solo them if they aggro and if you got more than 3 on you at once you have to run for your life or die.

But, your issues are purely player based.

You're right, in beta most players were helpful because there weren't nearly as many which meant we had to work together and it was a bit of a challenge, but in live the player base is much bigger and most only fend for themselves, and since the player base is bigger everything is easier in numbers rather than difficulty.

[AllOutWar]

Oh you mean the buffs? They don't boost a great deal from what I've seen. It's only what 5%? And with each tree giving maybe 180-200 xp per swing then you're only getting an additional 10 xp per swing.

It's a 50% boost, add that with rested xp and it's 100%.

[geekgirl101]

It's a 50% boost, add that with rested xp and it's 100%.

Oh, I was thinking of the company buff Earth and Water not the manuals. Yeah the manuals... meh 50%, that's only gonna be roughly 300 per swing, not a massive boost when I can get 300% boost in a successful HQ craft. I'd have to think about that after my brain's recovered from another dull FATE train.

[Moirear]

Nobody cures because they don't get xp for curing, so all the healers spam aero. If it's a boss people ignore adds, so you have to solo them if they aggro and if you got more than 3 on you at once you have to run for your life or die.

I'd appreciate if you and anybody else could stop perpetrating this myth, I've gone SOLO into FATEs and done nothing but healing and gotten gold every time. FATEs rate your rewards based on ENMITY, not damage dealt to enemies, kills, or some other myth people might believe. Enmity is generated the most by tank-y skills and HEALING people who are in combat.

The more you know?

[geekgirl101]

I'd appreciate if you and anybody else could stop perpetrating this myth, I've gone SOLO into FATEs and done nothing but healing and gotten gold every time. FATEs rate your rewards based on ENMITY, not damage dealt to enemies, kills, or some other myth people might believe. Enmity is generated the most by tank-y skills and HEALING people who are in combat.

I have a 15 CNJ, I cured through 3 FATEs and got 0 reward for it. I noticed that later on and so on the 4th FATE I cast aero as well and I got a gold medal. Myth confirmed.

[amnie]

I have a 15 CNJ, I cured through 3 FATEs and got 0 reward for it. I noticed that later on and so on the 4th FATE I cast aero as well and I got a gold medal. Myth confirmed.

not really.
you were healing people that weren't actually engaging mobs from the fate. that's all. and that happens a LOT in the lower level fates because these fates always spawn in-between all kinds of other mobs (often even the same ones as you need for the fate)
and don't understand this the wrong way, because I heal in fates a lot too and I hardly ever bother with fate groups. I always make sure if I heal that I heal whoever actually ticked a mob so I'm sure i'm healing the 'right' person. (of course I won't just let someone die, either)

[Kal-El]

Why not make a static group and take on dungeons?

The duty finder is a tool to aid finding dungeon parties, not the only way of doing them. Get your friends and do dungeons together.

FATE parties are an easy way of getting exp but I only took advantage of this when levelling my second class to 50. Hunters log has great exp and quests are found in abundance throughout all instances.