Quote Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal View Post
This is not a grind you should do several hours a day for several days straight trying to get it done immediately. There are two months until the next patch. Just play a little bit of OC every day doing what you want and not worry about the atmas, and then after a month or so you will have them all.
You're right. It's NOT a grind, and that's the problem. It's just RNG luck. The problem is that there will always be players like me who want to do things as quickly and efficiently as possible. Yeah, I could spend two months getting my atmas... If I didn't care about being inefficient with my heliometry and overcapping like crazy. I'm going to keep doing other content. Hunt trains especially, which give a lot of tomes. The fact that I can't buy my 3 arcanite without first doing the atma step means I'm just wasting time. I want every relic. That's 31,500 tomes. That's a lot. I'm not going to want to waste a single tome if I want to be finished with THAT step anytime soon. Which, btw, I don't MIND the tome grind, since it's clear they're not JUST doing the "buy weapons with tomes" step.

But do you see what I'm getting at? It's not about how long the devs intend something to take, it's about how efficiently it can be done if you DO want to "no-life" it. Which the atma steps are not efficient. Even slightly. As I said in my initial post, it encourages you to NOT do the new content, which again, hits at the point of it being inefficient. I can't grind phantom jobs, achievements, or silver/gold with peace of mind, just knowing that the rare case of luck I get with an atma will just be wasted by getting one I already have.