The Atma Stigma

[Vesuvias]

I love how everyone of the atma supporters can't seem to realize that this isnt FFXI, they are different games that cater to different kinds of players. FFXI is also much older and is a lot less designed for casuals, where in a lot of ways FFXIV caters to casuals. Yes you have your instances such as coils and ex primals, but they only make up for a fraction of the actual content in this game.

Also i would like to point out that it is great that an atma weapon is the end and the achievement. but to me i look at it and go "yay i get a Zenith weapon with an inflated ilvl.... that wasnt worth the 2 weeks of grinding..." for what you get atma should be able to be done in a couple of days easily (yes fate grinds are easy as hell, but rng kills it) then animus which is actually a stat increase and can be seen as a worth while grind, versus the stupidity that is the atma fate grind. but again, with the books i can actually pull up my book and its progress and go oh i need to do X fate. so i go sit there and wait for it to spawn. then boom im done with my book, and have to do my myth grind again. with animus i can see the light and the end of the bloody tunnel. with Atma.... is this going to take 2 hours... or am i never going to get the drops i need.

but for the record since you seem to think this is a trial of attrition i have put in about 5 days worth of nonstop grinding (not all at once mind you but rather 120 hours of grinding for my 6th Atma and i havent seen it drop. ive swapped zones, ive use the Japanese theory, none of it has gotten it to drop. but frankly this as killed my enjoyment of this game to some degree, and i know im not alone.