Quote Originally Posted by MasamuneBranford View Post
Listen - everyone complaining about how long atma grinding takes might as well give up on the Zodiac quest. As soon as you finish atma, you are entering animus territory. 9 books, 13,500 myth. The myth, believe it or not, is the easy part. Each book has the following:

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If you think atma takes too much "time" - you should probably do yourself a favor and ignore the questline completely.
The major difference here though is that it's guaranteed progression. Completed that fate? Awesome, ticked off the list. Beaten that book? Sweet, +1/2 to that stat. While atma is one thing only "Do fate for the low chance of something maybe dropping." It's nice when it drops, but there is no indication of when that is.