So... in 2.2... from what I gather (I'm not at endgame yet obviously), they added an incentive for max-level people to grind out FATEs.
This is good in the way that people actually do FATEs now; during 2.1 I'd see FATEs go untouched because nobody wanted to bother with them, unless you were lucky and saw 2-3 peeps leveling/questing/farming in an area at the time.
But... on the bad side...
Holy crap, the groups of 5-10 players with decked out crap Level Syncing to +6 Levels absolutely mowing crap down. It is HARD to get enough credit to earn Gold rewards in a FATE these days, if you're at the appropriate level to be in the place. I wonder if they shouldn't make the Level Sync +3 levels instead of +6, because it is just ridiculous how fast these people can kill mobs in these FATEs sometimes.
The biggest examples, are those ones in the Shroud, in the Lv28-30 area (the one with the Shroud Hares, the Golem Fragments, the Lunar Golems, etc). I once saw the Golem Fragment FATE get completed in 30 seconds. I literally ran in, engaged ONE golem, got a single fragment, found 2 on the ground, and the FATE was done by the time I did this, and I turned in 3....and only got Silver. Instead of 160 GC seals, I only got like 50.
Then, the Lunar Golem FATE popped. I mounted up and ran down there as fast as I could.. I'd target something that had 75% health, hit it with one ability.... it was dead before the GCD was up. Target something else, 50% health... dead before I can find out where exactly it IS (because they were rounding them up and AoEing them all to death). Wound up getting Silver on that too.
This kept happening over and over again. The next day, I decided to start on my CNJ, and about Lv10ish I started seeing this again -- people running in and murdering everything in seconds, finding it a real struggle to earn anything better than Silver because stuff is just dying too fast.
It is nice that we have more FATE participation, but My God... could you guys let the appropriate level players get a little credit before you nuke everything down in seconds?
Here's hoping SE either changes the Level Sync to +3, or reduces the amount you need to get Gold credit or something.