Feedback Regarding the Relic Upgrade Quest

[Ashal]

This is my 4th day trying to get my 7th atma from central than. I hope I never get within arms reach of the person that came up with this idea.

[Wicc]

All said and done, guessing that it's going to take an average player between 135 and 150 hours of play time to complete an animus once you factor in atma, myth and objectives.

And guess what, people will powerhouse through it and you are going to complain that there is nothing to do.
This isn't suppose to be done in a week. Or a month.

[Wicc]

I actually got my atma relic this morning. The RNG made it a bit more rewarding.

I was sitting like this


You space it out rather than trying to get it in the first week, it won't drive you crazy.

[SirSaber]

29 Mars : 5hours farm in La Noscea
30 Mars : 7hours farm in La Noscea, 1hour in Thanalan and 1hour in The Black Shroud
31 Mars : 3hours farm in Thanalan
01 April : 1hour farm in Thanalan
02 April : 8hours farm in La Noscea, 30mins in Thanalan and 2hours in The Black Shroud

Atma received : none, zero, nada, niente, nix, rien ...

I'll stop doing it, saw much too many come do 1-10 Fates and go with Atmas in their inventories, while I still got not a single one.

I would have prefered a grind method with actual progress, like do 200 Fates and get 1 Atma.
But no...no...it had to be rng......

[TeaTimeBear]

29 Mars : 5hours farm in La Noscea
30 Mars : 7hours farm in La Noscea, 1hour in Thanalan and 1hour in The Black Shroud
31 Mars : 3hours farm in Thanalan
01 April : 1hour farm in Thanalan
02 April : 8hours farm in La Noscea, 30mins in Thanalan and 2hours in The Black Shroud

Atma received : none, zero, nada, niente, nix, rien ...

I'll stop doing it, saw much too many come do 1-10 Fates and go with Atmas in their inventories, while I still got not a single one.

I would have prefered a grind method with actual progress, like do 200 Fates and get 1 Atma.
But no...no...it had to be rng......

This is me completely. I don't think I'll be seeing my Atma book. So I decided to just help my boyfriend get his wep and go for leviathan or something. I have terrible luck.

[BamDeafPie]

Where the hell is SE respond on this? They still have their heads up their ass?

[Norondor]

Where the hell is SE respond on this? They still have their heads up their ass?

Waiting for this to blow over; hoping people will still be at it by the time of the PS4 release so the game won't look so dead pre-50; preparing to make some incredibly minor concession in a month

[Roris]

Waiting for this to blow over; hoping people will still be at it by the time of the PS4 release so the game won't look so dead pre-50; preparing to make some incredibly minor concession in a month

This pretty much, it's a trick to make the game and most open world areas aside from Revenant's seem livelier than they had regularly been for the beta and earlier release players, or if you want to be positive and look at it nicely, to make it easier for new players to do FATEs I guess. There's also the good old artificial content extension for existing players so they don't "rush" through it all.

[Mithent]

Waiting for this to blow over; hoping people will still be at it by the time of the PS4 release so the game won't look so dead pre-50; preparing to make some incredibly minor concession in a month

Unfortunately I think this is true. It all seems like a brilliant idea on paper - something to keep people occupied in the world, making it populated for the beta, but not requiring much in the way of development, and also meeting the demands for longer-term goals and content without lockouts as requested by some parts of the player base. They'll want to let all that play out for a while before helping anyone with it.

I was lucky yesterday to get one, but still nothing in Southern Thanalan after another couple of hours today (about six so far). Still seven crystals to go. At least my chocobo ranked up...

[Deathscythe343]

Here is another thing to consider. The relic quest itself is fairly short. It is composed of five fights, each of which can easily be done in ten minutes or less. Then there is also the portion where you must kill x number of creatures with the unfinished relic, takes thirty minutes at most. There is also AK, which can be completed in thirty minutes also. Prior to the patch you needed 900 philosophy to buy the cooling oil. Speed runs of CM took about thirty minutes. You add all of this up and you come up with about seven hours of actual game time. Why? Why does it take more time to get 1/12th, of the first part of this quest done, than it did for the entire weapon itself?