whoa... haha

[skaterger]

A ton of people who hate the FATE system, still love things that take a while to get. In fact, the person you quoted actually said he liked the Step 2 part of the quest. Which is going to take a lot longer, and be a lot more involved than the FATE portion. I have no problem with work at all. FATE grinding though, is not work. It's tedious, yes, and not fun.. but that doesn't automatically make it work. Work (to me) is difficult and requires you to pay attention, not just something being time consuming. FATE grinding does not require me to pay attention, and it is not difficult. It reduces me to tabbing out while waiting, then running into an area and hitting a whooping one button. Sometimes a whole -two- buttons. I could even do it without looking at my screen and it most certainly doesn't require any sort of coordination.

I don't deny fate grinding is excrutiatingly mind numbing, but what alternative would you suggest that also includes "work"? Going down the same path as 2.1? Kill XX of mobs, run the new dungeons, run levi hm? That would be too easy (I killed her on my first attempt). Or how about killing primal ex instead? Oh wait they already have that it gives you the same ilvl weapon.

If you say that 13500 myth tomes is better than 12 atmas, assuming 45 myth per run (most efficient dungeon), that is exactly 300 runs of any of the new hm dungeons/AT. And is 300 runs of the same dungeon not a grind as well? Somehow I have a feeling I will get the atmas faster than farming the tomes even with the atrocious drop rates.

I don't see any other way they can go about the relic quest line, aside from creating a totally new quest line that is specifically for the relic (new dungeon, new boss, etc), which obviously I would prefer.