Atmas.

[AskaRay]

Am I the only one who liked the books?
Not the FATE part.. but even then it wasn't RNG it was "wait then do this FATE" so it wasn't too bad.

My least favorite part will always and forever be gathering all that damned Alexandrite.

[Eidolon]

Am I the only one who liked the books?
Not the FATE part.. but even then it wasn't RNG it was "wait then do this FATE" so it wasn't too bad.

My least favorite part will always and forever be gathering all that damned Alexandrite.

FATE books were pretty bad on release. The amount of time people spent farming Brayflox Longstop to get the required Tomestones to buy a single book, then the fact that you had to:


Kill 10x of each enemy (Waiting on respawns 3 times)
Defeat 3 leves (Sometimes having to do extra to get the one you needed to spawn)
Doing 3 FATE's (Sometimes waiting over 5 hours for a pop)
Doing 3 dungouns (Was a lot worst on DPS que-wise back then, can do it unsynched now)

This made it a huge chore and a huge grind. The sheer number of them saw it being one of the longest steps for slowly updating stats. Tag this on that it came right after Atma - a step that required heavy grinding of FATE's for no reward (stats don't raise and I don't consider a cosmetic ilevel upgrade to be a reward.) ... yea, I can see how they hate it.

[AskaRay]

snip snoop char limit makes me :'(

Yeah, I remember... I'm pretty sure the tome cost had been nerfed by the time I got to it but the requirements were still there.
It was MUCH better than the Atma FATE drop part, like a breath of fresh air...
"Sure this'll take a fuckton of time but at least it's doing something" instead of "Man I just did four hours of FATEs and....still don't have that Atma"

So I guess what I'm saying is I'd take like five steps of the books over randomly waiting for something to drop from a FATE.