Atma changes in 2.3

[Eggnook24]

Think of Atma this way:
It's a great opportunity to spirit bond for materia you'll need.

/runs away

[Elway358]

Think of Atma this way:
It's a great opportunity to spirit bond for materia you'll need.

/runs away

/Blunt Arrow to the back of the head...

[Yumi_umi]

K so yoshi is putting it like this,
Atma is for weeding out the lazy and ppl without time to spare.
Animus is for weeding out the people who are burning themselves out on bray hm and ppl without more time to spare on the 3 fates.
Novus is for weeding out the poor, the bards , and the ppl who don't have access to ppl that can help them.
After all that we are left with ppl that have a lot of time to spare, have a lot of gil and the will to grind more fates for extra alexandrite.

[Seryl199]

I don't know if its just been good luck to run into the only 20 or so polite people ever to play the game, but I've seen more atma farmers running up on fate and just killing mobs one by one, not flash/bliz2 spamming... Just playing the game. I dunno about others' opinions, but this has been a huge quality of life improvement for me. Only 15/12 atmas so far, but I'm not really hating it at all. If you want the relic options, get in there and do the content.

This is most likely due to the fact that participation is all that matters for atma drops. Getting gold isn't required, just as long as you get in there and whack a few mobs. Spamming comes from the desperate tag race that is more necessary for leveling via fates.

[Elway358]

This is most likely due to the fact that participation is all that matters for atma drops. Getting gold isn't required, just as long as you get in there and whack a few mobs. Spamming comes from the desperate tag race that is more necessary for leveling via fates.

^ this. What you may think is "polite" people are actually most likely some of the most selfish in the game now. Theyre the ones who know that any speck of participation will get them a completion, so they hit a few mobs and run to the next fate expecting others to stick around and finish it for them while they get the benefit.

[Marxam]

I wish. If anything the Novus questline needs to be reworked its like SE is saying please support RMT or quit your job and just play our game because you won't have time for anything else. Stupidest idea for a game geared towards casual.

I know the Novus is targeted towards the 1% who enjoy this sort of thing but when you factor in the (amount of in-game time) x (RL) most of us might no even achieve it until 2.35 at the earliest. I would rather have it so the Novus only requires you to beat the Brutal BC 1-5 to get it atleast there you get a sense of working together instead of a singular monotonous grind.

[Avarghaladion]

Um... FATES are the fastest way to gain GC seals in the game

This is a little off topic but lolno... A single Expert Provisioning turn in is worth, at minimum, twice as much as the highest lvl FATEs with regards to GC. You can expect to get a lot of drops in a very short time in mythflox, each of which translate to over 800GC a pop... compare this to the 20-200GC you get for fates that can take longer than a single mythflox run. Not to mention submitting standard crafted items to your GC which can, in <10min of work, get you more GC than you can earn in 10hrs of FATE grinding. FATEs are a terrible way to get GC no matter what level you're at because even before you can do Expert Provisioning the GC Hunting Log and Dungeon/Hest rewards cover the gap.

^ this. What you may think is "polite" people are actually most likely some of the most selfish in the game now. Theyre the ones who know that any speck of participation will get them a completion, so they hit a few mobs and run to the next fate expecting others to stick around and finish it for them while they get the benefit.

This could also be seen as a sign that more and more people have caved in and are botting fates.

[Fawkes]

There hasnt been many threads flaming Novus, is it just that the casuals havent gotten there yet? I'm only 5 Melds in, but I am glad its less about Rng, but a little annoyed at materia prices atm.

I could probably find things to complain about in the next steps, but I have zero atma still. I'm not sure I fully understand what you do for the Novus stage because I've had no reason to look into it. I know you use materia and alexandrite, but I don't even know if it's one or the other or both, or what else is involved.

[Sacred-Oblivion]

The most amazing change that could ever happen regarding Atmas:

People STOP creating threads every single day complaining about them

Um, please point out the part in my OP that's complaining about atmas. I don't mind grinding atmas honestly, but if there's a chance that changes will be coming soon I'd rather wait. Wouldn't you be frustrated if went through that whole grind and then the next day SE announces "oh btw, we're going to double the drop rate for atmaslol"?

Thanks, for the discussions everyone. I think I'm going to wait until the Patch 2.3 notes are revealed before continuing the atma quest.

[LadyVaJedi]

That is a good idea Sacred-Oblivion. It took me close to 12 hours to just get 1 atama. And I don't relish getting the other 11 if it is going to take the same amount of time.