I don't mind the atma grind, but the way it was implemented lacked any sort creativity and it seems like the only reason we have atma weapons to begin with is to go back to low level zones to help low level players with FATEs. It implies that SE knows the FATE system isn't so great and doesn't scale the way it should. They could have done so many other things to encourage endgame players to help low level players, but they chose to do it in an annoying way. What's that? You collected all 12? Good..now go grind out FATEs again because after running Brayflox 100 times you'll want to take a break with some FATEs. But seriously...they could introduce a mentor system, give bonus seals or tomes for endgmae players helping low level players, gil bonus, maybe even a special currency that can be used to purchase glamor. The roulette system was a really nice step forward, but the atma and nova kind of quests took two steps back.

Now...if the FATEs we were required to grind were new level 50 FATEs that weren't a snooze-fest, then I wouldn't have a problem with that at all. In fact, I would gladly go out of my way to get more atma weapons.