ATMAs should just drop on the first fate

[Nyghtmarerobu]

This is what I'm getting at. Grinding over and over and over and over again is work. If you want to grind, make it interesting. Assign different dungeons, trials, make new enemies to kill, new areas to explore, something unique, something tied directly to weapon's lore, and make each weapon have their own quest lines. The fact that EVERY weapon shares EXACTLY the same quest objectives shows a lack of imagination on SE's part. As it stands, the relics' purpose really is nothing more than to keep FATEs and dungeons alive.

Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the intresting content went out the window with the anima quest line. It was something people had been asking for, for quite some time. An involved quest chain, with new enemys and fun trials. There was an article that came out some time before anima was released, or maybe when it was just released, where Yoshida commented on how, they didn't want to gate the completion behind any "Difficult" content, so things like, chimera and hydra from the original line, were scrapped for the new anima quest line. In responce to this, they added more grind. Something easy to obtain, but mind-numbingly grindy. Suffice it to say, I don't think this will change.

There is absolutely no challenge, just a tedious long grind. I mean, where is the point? We go to work and do boring/annoying things in RL. Do we actually need the same thing in our freetime/game, too? It feels like work, not like a game. Games are meant to be fun. Where is the fun in grinding for weeks for just one weapon?

You're right it is work, but thats what I feel like it should be in terms of obtaining it. No one is forced to do the relic, you choose to take part in it. And if the work is too hard, door is over there. Relic is not for everyone.