Community misconceptions in regards to Atma

[AnimaAnimus]

The real problem is that putting atma into fate grinding seems like an afterthought, as if SE was going to implement atma and forgot til the night before launch so they threw it in real fast with low chances of success and just shrugged.

I would love a system that took time so the Animus isn't a ridiculously easy to get as the zeniths but fate grinding is such poor game design. They could have added a new form of endgame to get it, they could have put it in dungeons, they could have given them as rewards for certain leves/quests or a million other ways.

But they rely so much on fates and that is the biggest development flaw in ffxiv thus far.

[Thorauku]

But they rely so much on fates and that is the biggest development flaw in ffxiv thus far.

100% agree on this. Heck, even the seasonal events are tied with FATEs. That's how creative SE is when it comes to things like this.

[BloodPact]

100% agree on this. Heck, even the seasonal events are tied with FATEs. That's how creative SE is when it comes to things like this.

That's how the system was designed from the start; even before the alpha version, in the news releases they'd give regarding the development of A Realm Reborn, they clearly stated that all content taking place in the game that wasn't instanced would be in the form or FATEs. And so, it's probably here to stay, I'm afraid, at least until the first expansion.