Is it my turn to rant? Go away FATE zergs!Follow

If you can't beat them join them.

It's not like there are lots of efficient ways to level after quests are finished. Seems like the best way to level a DPS class. Beats spending an hour trying to find a duty.

IMO:

Tank/Healer = level easy through duty finder (first time guildhests and dungeons, not fastest but instant pops and good loot)
DPS = quests (story/secondary)/FATE grinding (fast and efficient but no loot)

I started to join them too. The XP is so juicy you can't let it go by. I'm saving side questies for next classes.

I play as CNJ (now WHM) and ALWAYS gold medal... Here's how on PS3. Sorry PC players, you'll have to figure out what the translation is on KB/Mouse.

So, bind Aero to something on the R2 hotbar. Mine is R2+Square. Don't ever let go of R2. Now, hit L1. This will ONLY target mobs. So I just have R2 held down and hit Square, L1, Square, L1, Square, L1. Aero, swap, Aero, swap, Aero, swap, Aero, etc etc ad infinitum. Just swap and cast as fast as you can. Of course, I'll drop a heal on a party member if need be and if they're in range. And Raise anyone during the FATE that drops.

You do need to pay a tiny bit of attention if you want to not cast on a non-FATE mob. But like someone above said, it doesn't really matter as the mob will probably be dead or chasing someone else shortly afer you cast anyway.

Good Luck!

Edited, Sep 23rd 2013 2:33pm by LebargeX

Glad others share their my contempt for FATEs. They are massively spoiling the game at the minute and at first i loved them when only 5-20 people would show up. Now all i see,especially in quarry mill is a massive trail of people maybe 40-50+ strong destroying everything in sight and spamming the chat "LFG fate" "looking for fate group" "please invite me"

Only 3 options i see is to

1) nerf the XP gain to make it more inline with other ways of leveling
2) boost the XP for other ways of leveling
3) reduce the appearance of FATEs to make them more special (added side effect is that reduces the XP/hr which stops the zerg fest train)

Isn't this just the same as a roaming EXP party in FFXI?

Ah man, I remember the KRT monk-burns prior to Abyssea.

The camp held an absolute maximum of 12 people, and was really more comfortable with 6. Three monks, a red mage, a white mage, and a bard. Everyone traveled around the loop, killing stuff as it repopped. If you were stuck in the small loop you could carefully time it and infinichain it, and get about 12K/hour, and if you had - and could handle - the entire area by yourself, you could break 15K/hour. It was only eventually beaten out by the pink birds of ToAU and Mamool Ja Staging Point (both places could break 20K/hour with a COR and the place to yourself.)

Just be glad that you can attack other's monsters in XIV.

ToAU made MNK burns seem like Ule Range demon exp.

because they weren't particularly strong offensively. hence less dangerous. hence more boring. people are so lame sometimes.