Is this your first Final Fantasy? Or do you just not remember grinding in past games?

[Sunarie]

You keep bringing up the same points in every post about the issue. Please realise in all probability that people will spend more time on the second part of the quest than the first even if you are terribly unlucky with the rng. Think about it for a second. 13500 myth, 27 dungeons, 27 fates and 900 mob kills.

The only reason people aren't whining about the grind in the second part is that they are still farming the Atmas. Even for a seasoned grinder like me, I'm not looking forward to the second part of the quest.

tldr: if you can't handle the rng, i think you should just skip this quest entirely because you are not going to enjoy the second part.

I completely disagree. I know of several people that are very -happy- about the second part of the quest. In fact, some of them are now on that part and fully loving it. Having a goal to work towards and putting work into something means something. I keep bringing up the same point because it's true both for myself, and for anyone in my circle of friends/guildies who like to grind. We know the second part is going to take longer, and we don't hate it, we welcome it. There is something to be said about being rewarded for your time and actually seeing progress being made, it makes all the difference. That can be progress towards summoning a boss, or progress towards beating a certain part of the quest. The Atma grind portion doesn't fill that whole progress part. You can grind for hours (I'm lucky the maximum I've had was 7) and have absolutely nothing to show for it.

You can try and tell me what I like or don't like, but I know myself pretty well. Visible progress makes worlds of difference when working towards a long term goal. Maybe it doesn't for you personally, but other people aren't you and are going to enjoy things in different ways, or find the same things enjoyable for entirely different reasons.