"Most people don't have Animus yet"...

[Miburo]

Imo, more timesink, less RNG.

Eh, sure. Timesinks aren't bad by default. So long as the player can play for a few hours and make progress then that's fine. None of this RNG crap where you can successfully do something over and over and not get rewarded at all. You could have just not logged on to do that, after all.

And, most importantly, whatever the timesink is should be enjoyable. I'd rather have to fight 12 big mean difficult atma guardians over grinding a random number of level 12 fates. Both could take a while, but only one is something most players would enjoy.

I wouldn't fix it. Not everything has to be for casuals.

-low level fates and other super easy content
-not casual

Pick one.

[Obysuca]

I'd rather have to fight 12 big mean difficult atma guardians

Sort of like the bosses from Tactics? That'd be nice, especially if they had new models for them, instead of recolors that are sure to come at some point lol Completely random patterns would be nice too, instead of 100% scripted.

How about before fighting the Zodiac bosses, you'd have to obtain the atma for the one you want to fight? Obviously not this fate grinding, but some other way. Fail the fight? Refarm it. I can feel the rage off people already from that lol But it's not a bad idea. They could even make it so for another upgrade, you'd have to fight 3 at once or something.

Also, no echo, no being able to do it with less than a full party, something that requires teamwork. Mostly to kill off the paid runs so you won't get the trap known as "bad people who don't pay attention/know their job, but have good gear"
If they did add something hard like this, I'm sure the community would be a lot better. Instead of "Bad people in your pt? /kick", It'd probably turn into "Bad people in your pt? Actually teach/help them so they get better" Also, no putting this on the DF, make the server work together. It's a mmo, you should be working to better the group as a whole, instead of yourself.

Edit because ALL THE IDEAS >.>

They could have even done something crazy like, a big quest chain with time consuming stuff, leading up to fighting each of the Zodiac bosses and even tie it in with the real Zodiac dates. Which would require pumping multiple questlines / fights each month, but still.