My Zeta is only worth 18 atma?

Yeah... I decided to keep my zeta rather than turn it in. Sure, I know I can get a replica to keep the appearance, but somehow it just feels wrong to hand it over. Especially to skip a relatively minor step (Halfway through grinding my crystals atm, so yes, I *am* aware of how long they can take to drop)

OP, you got proof that you got your zeta pre-nerf?

The "turn in zeta/skip fates" part does not seem like a reward for those that completed it, it seems more of a PUNISHMENT for those that did not! Haha. I was glad to turn mine in to skip that step.

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Originally Posted by kuikui

The "turn in zeta/skip fates" part does not seem like a reward for those that completed it, it seems more of a PUNISHMENT for those that did not! Haha. I was glad to turn mine in to skip that step.

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Perspective, perspective, perspective, I guess. The FATEs in Azys Lla were a pain in the ass to attempt alone, but I just finished getting the three stones of fire. The stones really aren't that bad. Like I said before, the books discouraged me from carrying on in my first relic, so... I'll take Atma stuff over Books any day. Or, you know, anything that tells me to go chasing after specific FATEs. Hell no, I absolutely hate that. That's a waiting game I don't want to play, like, ever!

I wish you got to choose which step you could skip. Got to looking to see what you had to do to get the new purple weapon... I'd rather skip the 20/20/20/20/4/4/4/4 step than the grinding...

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Originally Posted by MaethusXion

I wish you got to choose which step you could skip. Got to looking to see what you had to do to get the new purple weapon... I'd rather skip the 20/20/20/20/4/4/4/4 step than the grinding...

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that's the only step that actually turns the quest into a log-term project, though. It would be too much of of the devs to have us earn an ilv210 weapon in 1 day.

With all the huge nerfs to relic quest line, you could make a Zeta in probably the same time as an Anima atma grind. I made a zenith in like an hour, nexus and mahatma lights cap extremely quick from solo unsync Satasha Normal. Dungeojs are unsync'd and can be soloed, the fates spawn quicker now, and alex maps drop 5 alexandrites per map and cost almost no poetics to purchase. You could literally make a zenith in probably a day or two max.

*zeta in a day or two max, sorry posted from phone

At first I was really upset and was basically foaming at the mouth when I read the patch notes. Now that I've calmed down a bit I'm not that mad anymore. Sure they made an incredibly boring quest with 0 creativity and all.
I think its the timing and the fact that didn't we just make a sentient living weapon with the zodiac questline? I mean, that was kind of the point of the whole zodiac--> Zeta stage. Waking up the weapon and giving it Sentience. Isn't that exactly what we're doing with the new Anima weapons? Had they made it so we just ascended the soul of our relic into the new relic, perhaps, ascended the Mind of the zeta for us zeta owners instead of just having some lady in a dumb hat snap my zeta in two and hand me some generic ass crystals that she could of made with 18 atma. Had we instead gotten Gerolt and the new kid to transfer the soul of our weapon I probably wouldn't be as upset as I was/am.

(apparently I typed too much so I will make another post.)

Had this come in 3.1 we'd probably all be done or almost done with the 3rd step by now which I think would be acceptable. Had they made the grind in 6 stages instead of 3 it would be fine. Same grind, spread out over 6 stages with smaller rewards. Let us taste that carrot on the stick a bit more often and the grind isn't so bad. Maybe going from 170--> 180 with the 10 dungeons, then maybe gathering 25% of whats in step 3, then the weapon goes to 190. Step 4 is 25% more stuff from the current step 3, weapon goes to 195. Etc until Stage 6 Fully awakens the weapon to i210. Smaller steps with more rewards. Its still manipulating us into doing the exact same grind, but players can decide to take breaks and use their weapon at i190, i195 etc. Give us more options, instead of forcing this massive grind on us all at once.