Atma = Zenith, Seriously?

[chococo]

You're only looking at half of what is really there. It changes to Atma once you have the twelve crystals. From there each Atma item can increase individual stats from a selection of 4 that are already in the item. Like the Viel of Wiyu. Once you have its Atma, you increase the stats on it. I get 3 hunting books to do to increase its intelligence by 2 points each. So with one book completed my Wiyu Atma has 33 Int. With two books it has 35 Int. With all three it has 37 int, same as the Animus form.

Atma is the weapon's transitional stage between Zenith and Animus. We have to build the weapon up ourselves once we've unlocked the Atma form.

Yup. but the built up stage is merely just the same as the levi weapons, and weaker than gerol's weapons and much worse than allagan.