Time for one of my favorite grinds in Final Fantasy XIV – Shared FATE! With Dawntrail, there’s a whole new set of world zones to grind FATE events in, and it’s always been one of my favorite early-expansion activities. We might also get some achievements on the way!
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Oh the alligator animation is from anemos as well
I like the single boss fates the most. Rn I would go with fiery Ixion in the living memory
I think I forgot to comment last week. Which is fine, because I didn't do anything this week, so I can report my paltry progress from last week instead! Lalachievements score: 17,115
Not a lot to say. I picked up Reforged: Majestic Manderville War Scythe from Poetics, and happened to get Mama Said Knock You Out IV while doing Frontlines roulette to level VPR and my PvP Malmstone Series rank. I've been spending a lot more time working on random wiki projects than really playing the game.
Probably not my favorite one, but the first one the comes to mind is "Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia" because that's where I learned the scientific term for "Brain Freeze" and somehow that term has lodged itself firmly in my brain meat ever since.
I think Formidable is likely my favorite.
Arr the boss fate with the giant big shell, I love the minion…is my favorite…I like big crab…
slacking on fates is such a mood. I swore I'd do six in each zone the first time I got to it. I honored that in ew (not in shb cos I somehow completely missed the whole shared fate thing – or didn't miss it but immediately forgot it lol), but I just can't make myself do it now in dt for some reason.
My favorite FATE(s) are the ones in the South Shroud, the paired sets of FATE chains Breaching/Clearing the Hive, and then Defending/Keeping the Hive. One set of FATEs is about clearing out a base (The Hive) of enemy bandits so the Wood Wailers can take it over, and the other set is defending the base so those bandits don't reclaim it. As far as I'm aware, its the only FATE in the game where your success or failure actually determines whether the area will be a friendly NPC area or a hostile enemy area- they even have a merchant who sells an exclusive minion. I'd love it if more FATEs worked like this- that neglecting the FATEs lead to a zone overrun with monsters and enemies, and clearing them out makes it friendlier with some services/perks available only when the zone has been made safe.
My favorite FATE has to be that one level 5 one in central Thanalan where you just beat up a guy in his camp because he thinks he's hot shit.
My favorite fate from a narrative perspective is the chain that goes throughout the azim steppe following one of the tribes. Coincidentally it is also my least favorite from a gameplay perspective because it is absolutely god awful to try and spawn.
Tomestones for fates? You mean Bozja?
I am sorry, you're gonna have to run atiascope again!
i'd say formidable is my favorite fate, but archaeotania is a close second. the boss fates are just a lot of fun chaos
I need all these world fates 😅 I'm so behind
One fate I wish we saw more of is the one "The Magitek Is Back" in The Peaks. It is the one and only "Chase FATE" and I kinda wish there were more like it
My personal favorite is, for some reason, Royal Rumble in the East Shroud. I will always fight the Prince of Pestilence if he’s up whenever I’m visiting. No idea why!
The Outjaw is techically a primal, the grandmothers all believe in it, it came into being.
An small but underrated FATE chain is in Yanxia over by Yuzuka Manor. Look for the Namazu named 'Gyogun of the Most Bountiful Catch'.
I like the fate chain that feels like effectively the only Elf lore in the game from lakeland
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I have made mad Gil off gems so far
The Pet the Lalafell Fate… wait what there is none??? Are you telling me peeps have been giving me headpats and not getting EXP? But I get so much enjoyment out of it…
The few times my static's had to look for a fill for a night, I've gone FATE'ing XD So they joke that I have a bit of an addiction to doing them.
I've sat down and figured out the minimum requirements for Gold on every FATE in the game, as well as the XP drop for doing FATEs underleveled. And have been doing this since Heavensward. :3
But my fave would have to be the chains in both Churning Mists and Il Mheg. The story behind them adds a lot to the lore of the zones.
Shared FATE was so fun the week of DT release because there were SWARMS of people doing them. Especially in Shaaloani when the Snek Waiting Rooms were happening. I wasn't a fan of the Shrek script readings, but overall that was a really fun time seeing so many people waiting around.
As for my favorite FATE, I don't know if I have one. I like the Behemoth one from Coerthas because so few people look out for it now. It's like, old rare-er content that happens so infrequently (and isn't on the map at first), that it was fun to catch the few times it popped.
For the comment question, I really like the one in the Azim steppe. Its a part of the dataqi chronicles chain and it tasks you with collecting milk, and the next step to it comes by around 25m later
I like the Ahm Areng long chain fate that involved two random dudes stumbling upon an ancient relic and you having to save them from themselves. It's nothing special really but made me really immersed into the zone and actually enjoy doing FATEs. Somehow.
any fate with a silly funny name is high up on my list by default
Favorite fate. I just dies in your (Six) arms tonight. For the name alone
I like the achievement FATE chain where you follow the big lizard goober around the east part of Rak'Tika as it gets increasing angrier and turns into a glowing red Godzilla
Just to share, a silly thing happened one day while I was grinding fates. While I was leveling black mage I kept running into the same pictomancer and I would place leylines on top of their starry canvas. Eventually they started doing the same if they showed up to a fate after me. And finally, we started to do the same thing to a ninja with doton.
Silly little things ya know?
I just got caught back up on my Mentor Roulette requirements over the weekend, so I've been jumping into that again. No EXs yet, but I did get a DRK in a level 90 dungeon who didn't have TBN because they decided not to do their job quests until after they finished the MSQ.
My favorite fates are a series of three in the Fringes, where you face off against the Grand Companies for a training exercise: first enlisted men, then the NCOs, then the officers.
Can't wait for you to finish the Shared FATE grind on forker
blink Your Blue Mage is level one…and you're maxing everything else…does not compute. Pick a week and grind out the BLU achievements when you need something different and to revisit old content.
I like the FATE grind too. Traveling the overworld is quite peaceful for me. But I don't like how FATE parties up the HP of FATEs they do. I go do a FATE only to find out it's going to take me the entire duration to finish. At bare minimum the FATE should have an indicator showing the recommended number of players who should do it, and if it says like it's for 20+ people, then I know that my solo ass can leave it alone.
I noticed the spawn detail attention! It's really really nice! I hope whichever designer came up with these ideas gets the recognition and praise they deserve!
I really like the fate chain in the South Shroud! the one that you end up storming the Redbelly hide out. It unlocks a shop when you complete the chain and you can get this stupid lookin raptor hatchling minion that I love buying a ton of and give away to sprouts. 🙂
Those gators reuse the animation from Weeping City of Mhach, they're the first trash pull on the path to the spider voidsent boss.
I actually need to grind out more dates, might do some DPS jobs in fates to get them up to LVL 90. I been using the bi colour gems for crafting items as I LVL my crafters
my favorite fate is either the immense amount of sandworms killing underleveled sprouts, or the ones in kholusia where they reference the "knife goes in, guts come out" from the simpsons
My favourite fate is Tender Buttons in Western La Noscea where you fight the giant dodo, because if you read the flavour text it says "Gluttonous Gertrude was just another plump dodo on the farm…until she bit the arse off one of the stable boys at Swiftperch and escaped into Quarterstone. Seek out the ravenous bird and slay her before another rump goes missing." You are literally saving their asses.
My favorite fates are any fates that I can use blue mage to hydro pull, rams voice, then ultra-vibe a HUGE group of mobs and then see that fate bar instantly jump to 50% or higher. Big dopamine straight to my frontal lobe