Feedback Regarding the Relic Upgrade Quest

[Sove92]

You don't need to finish a fate, only participate. You also don't need gold.

If it's a boss fate, you lose contribution if the boss resets, meaning if solo, you can't do the hit and run. With mob fates, killing 1-2 mobs is enough.

[Krr]

You don't need to finish a fate, only participate. You also don't need gold.

Waiting for a fate to end takes 15 minutes for it to time out, as opposed to taking five minutes to clear it. It's suboptimal unless you have at least 3-5 FATEs present to tag for contribution. This is all opposed to the ten seconds it took for a zerg to clear one when the quest was new. It's not "smart" and it's certainly not any "faster" like many people make it out to be. It's just an effort saver (that is also, frankly, much slower than just clearing the FATEs yourself - up to three times slower!) The main benefit is that you get to spend more time watching TV and less time watching your pretty but dull game window.

e: While it's unlikely, we also don't know how contribution or fail/success actually affects Atma droprate, only that it is possible to receive an Atma while bronze-failing a FATE.

Probably the worst element of solo FATE farming for Atmas is zones that have Notorious Monster fate spawns in them. Oh boy, Lazy for You spawned! There's 30 minutes an extra FATE is blocking any number of other, actually productive FATEs to do.

[EgweneALvere]

I still dont have all my atma. The atma fate grind fighting against the RNGmonster has just completely turned me off from doing much of anything. I am mostly disappointed that after 3+ weeks and several threads about people not liking atma fate's RNG that SE has chosen not to respond at all to the portion of their customer base that is dissatisfied. They have responded to several other less critical posts but not this one. Yes i know some people are happy with it but many are not. A lot of the people I know who were able to get all of their atma quickly realize they only did so because they lucked out with the RNG but still admit it is a dismal system to drag out content and is not equally fair to the player base.

[KylePearlsand]

What does having less people on fates making you unable to do it? I do most of them alone, with my Choco..

Don't give up; take it as a change from Brayflox HM, and you'll be fine. I'm halfway through it, excited!

Well... In Eastern Shroud, it isn't exactly impossible but some of the higher level fates are exceedingly difficult to do on your own such as Too Lazy for You. Mainly boss fates though. Sucks soloing them.

[rageguy]

I grinded six non stop hours at Horizon and did not get the Atma. I think six hours should have proved my willingness and dedication to the Atma grind, and if nothing produced in six hours, something isn't right. I do sincerely hope SE will adjust the drop rate or change the Atma quest completely to something more engaging and fun.

[Swishytail]

Anybody remember this:

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Ca...elic_Weapons#2

[Doo]

Anybody remember this:

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Ca...elic_Weapons#2

Did you have to Fate for those?

[Zaels]

Chances are this thread is dieing out because people have just stopped playing this game. I've seen quite a few people leave now and a majority of this could have been prevented by SE actually coming out and saying something on the matter.. Oh well, SE will continue to lose subs if they keep this ideology up.

lolno. the people that don't care or have no problems just don't post saying so. they're too busy actually playing the game.

in most cases when people want to give feedback, it's negative feedback. its rare that people go out of their way to give positive feedback.

one can easily say people stopped complaining because they decided to actually do the quests themselves. or they don't feel the need to repeat themselves for 200 pages.

[Swishytail]

Did you have to Fate for those?

Nope, but you had to rely on 30+ people every 3-days for 15 weeks for 1 weapon.
You also had to kill a boss that you had 1 chance of killing every 3 real life days.
Or you could spend upwards to 50 billion gil to buy the currency needed for upgrade.

[RumiP]

Nope, but you had to rely on 30+ people every 3-days for 15 weeks for 1 weapon.
You also had to kill a boss that you had 1 chance of killing every 3 real life days.
Or you could spend upwards to 50 billion gil to buy the currency needed for upgrade.

Yeah, that sounds awesome. I should go play that game right now.

Whose point are you proving?