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    Impossiblu
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    "Boss" FATEs

    Is there some secondary requirement to getting Gold in these things? Being in a party? Being the person/party that gets the claim? I've tanked most of the boss FATEs up until lv 35 (crab, ochu, corpse brigade ones off the top of my head) from 100% to 0% and have yet to get above silver on any of them. All gear is up to date, and have synced down for most of the corpse/ochu ones, and as I said I'm tanking these things from 100 to 0, so I don't think participation is the problem unless these things have stupidly high thresholds?

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    Melee Summoner
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    Maybe the mob is getting zerged down too fast for you to record enough damage? Most of the "one boss" FATEs I join are at 50%, I run in as ACN, spam spam spam, get gold. Seems the game gives priority to damage dealt. My whm friends also complaining about not getting gold, even while in a party.

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    All fates where I tanked I've been getting gold aside from ones that have a ton of people that are already started.

    I'm on Marauder and speaking of 20-29 FATE's.

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    Guess I just need to suck less at Gladiator then. Not entirely sure what I'm doing wrong but I'll figure it out.

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    Not sure if this helps but my friend was doing the boss FATE Coeurl King in Quarrymill and told me to port in for credit. I get there and manage 1-2 hits on the boss before FATE ends.....I somehow got Gold. I was on DRG at the time and literally use True Thrust > Vorpal Thrust once and got Gold so idk if I got credit for all the damage my friend had been dealing or what.

    Maybe try being in a party with a DD or 2 and have them attack it from start to finish with you and see if you get Gold then? Im in the same boat with Cancer so I know your pain, tanked the damn crab from 100% to 0 and got silver, no XI Crab pet for me. /sadpanda

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    If it's a boss with adds, may want to try tagging a bunch of them. I feel it helps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Voyage1970 View Post
    Not sure if this helps but my friend was doing the boss FATE Coeurl King in Quarrymill and told me to port in for credit. I get there and manage 1-2 hits on the boss before FATE ends.....I somehow got Gold. I was on DRG at the time and literally use True Thrust > Vorpal Thrust once and got Gold so idk if I got credit for all the damage my friend had been dealing or what.

    Maybe try being in a party with a DD or 2 and have them attack it from start to finish with you and see if you get Gold then? Im in the same boat with Cancer so I know your pain, tanked the damn crab from 100% to 0 and got silver, no XI Crab pet for me. /sadpanda
    If you're in a PT you also get credit for your PT's actions. That's why all these people are running around making FATE parties. It's actually very efficient for everyone because the exp isn't reduced as severely for field mobs while grouped.

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    Managed to get gold finally... so strange though. I got there and Cancer was at 70%, and I didn't do anything differently this time than I did every time I got silver. *shrug*

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    Just to add another WTF, my WHM friend was doing FATEs and could never get beyond Silver either until he just straight up spammed Aero on the mob over and over. No Stone/II, no Cures, just Aero every time it was available. He hasn't gotten a Silver since. #wtfrandom

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    might be based off of number of actions rather than actual contribution..

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    On whm i just claim with Aero then spam stone II and as long as i'm there near the start i've always gotten gold (did fates 34-44).