1% or less drop rates and how they hurt the game

[AmyNeudaiz]

None of the so called "1% drop rate" items you mentioned are mandatory to progress in the game. You should not get handed items just because you pay a subscription. The nightmare mount will lose its allure if everyone and their mother is running around with one. If you really want it then be prepared to work for it. Choice is never a bad thing. It only becomes an issue when players like the OP mixes up want with need.

Everything in this game is optional that's not a valid argument.

Running the same thing over and over and over again and failing, not based on skill or time spent, but because of some arbitrary number roll you have nothing to do with is just not fun. It can easily erode one's enjoyment of the game if you're one of the unlucky ones (though no fault of your own).

I just want to echo this because I almost quit over this feeling. Before doing Atma I played this game religiously doing probably 5-10 dungeons a day + all of my roulettes, Primals, Coil 1-5 farming, ect ect but after burning myself with the Atma grind, I nearly quit all together. I barely got back into playing this game seriously again this past week.