Zodiac Weapon Fates

[Akujin]

Remember this is an alternative method for people to get high ilv weapons. It is supposed to be long, slow and a grind for casuals to chip away at. If you want weapons faster, go clear T9 and extremes.

Here's the problem with that mentality.

Chipping away at something with an actual visual guide of progression is fine. Such as the Butchers Crown - It was a very, very long process, but you could always keep track of where you currently stood on it.

This is completely random nonsense, it's as others have said, purely based on luck, not skill, not ability, just being in the right place at the right time. That does not reward a player for anything. I agree it's an alternative to the other higher tier weapons, but at the same time, it should be a Fair system that people don't feel as if they're beating themselves up for nothing.

Even if the system was designed with a lockout idea in mind, once per day, I would've been completely fine with that. But obviously that's not the case as a FC friend has 7, last time I spoke to him. Ontop of that, at one point he came to the area I was already in, spent thirty minutes in that zone, got his Atma then went to the next, I haven't seen anything. There's no reward to it, it's just bad design, plain and simple.

[Tupsi]

Thank the hardcore idiots for this, they cried for it endlessly....

Funny, people were swearing up and down just yesterday SE would never listen to the "LESS THAN 1% OF THE PLAYERBASE!"

[Doo]

Funny, people were swearing up and down just yesterday SE would never listen to the "LESS THAN 1% OF THE PLAYERBASE!"

Daaa vocal minority!!!

and now

"It's all the vocal minoritys fault!"

It's like they all have the same talking points.

Get's old.

Players wanted real open world content - S.E delivers with more Fates (and not even new ones) which most players want to get rid of.

[BobbinT]

lo and behold! Some of us legacies (that's from 1.0) already been dreading on just how god-awful RNG was. And yet, SE never listened. Lots of us already begging on content based on progress. I guess in the end, they never had an idea of "how to" without relying on RNG.

Remember this is an alternative method for people to get high ilv weapons. It is supposed to be long, slow and a grind for casuals to chip away at. If you want weapons faster, go clear T9 and extremes.

"faster"? really?

[Empressia]

sure its faster if RNG doesn't screw ur weapon drops.....oh wait a min

[Libby9]

Funny, people were swearing up and down just yesterday SE would never listen to the "LESS THAN 1% OF THE PLAYERBASE!"

I don't recall any 1%'er asking for hours of fate grinding. Pretty sure they asked for more challenging content, like CT hard mode and roaming primals.

[Zumi]

This keeps you logging in a lot more days now.

[Marael]

I got my archer from a lvl 3 FATE so it can be any FATE in the zone.

Secondly, has anyone received more than ONE Atma, we have been farming for sometime now for our second and it's not looking too bright.

Yes, I got two scales from Central Than trying to get Maiden, which is probably an oops in the text translation, unless someone can confirm that they both do drop in Central Thanalan?

[Libby9]

Yes, I got two scales from Central Than trying to get Maiden, which is probably an oops in the text translation, unless someone can confirm that they both do drop in Central Thanalan?

It is a typo. The maiden is from central shroud.

[Sunarie]

Funny, people were swearing up and down just yesterday SE would never listen to the "LESS THAN 1% OF THE PLAYERBASE!"

I think people on the forums are misplacing blame. The FFXI and older MMO crowd that wanted a longer quest and something to work towards, that you couldn't get in a day.. was also looking for open world stuff that was fun an engaging. I've never heard any of them say they liked fates, and wanted to do all of the ones currently available over and over again. Some aspects of the quest (the part after you get done with the 12 atmas) seem to be more that style.. but the fate part really isn't. That's just SE trying to shove Fates down people's throats. The "1%" didn't ask for that.