Feedback Regarding the Relic Upgrade Quest

[Scox]

This is horrible to put it nicely. Spending countless hours to get one piece at a time is mind numbing. Nothing about this adds any enjoyment to playing FFXIV. Isn't one of your requirements when making new content "Will players enjoy doing this activity"? There has got to be a better way to accomplish this rather than RNG FATE grinding for days on end. How about putting in specific FATES that will drop these items? At very least make it so when we are in a FATE party that the entire party gets the drop so they can stay together and move from zone to zone. I seriously don't understand why in the world SE put this quest together as it is now. It almost seems like a cruel joke or a punishment.

[Arkista]

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Well if enough people complain maybe they will change the drop rate. They changed the Spawn Rate of fates for CT. When I seen the Atma list I thought that they would drop from specific fates. Like the Crab could have been the Cancer Fate, The archer could have been a Red Belly (Hive) Fate, There are so many Fates that they could have used 12 to match the Atmas. This is just ridiculous, Also I wonder if any of these parties are excluding players under level 50?

[Wicc]

Well, while we wait for them to decide to hotfix it or not, slap on some spirit bounding gear and bring out those chocobos! :]

[Elim]

You know what they could have done if they wanted to use FATES and make it last long? Have specific FATES for the zodiac and make them appear as randomly and rarely as Odin. Maybe even more rare.

However, to avoid it being exactly like the cluster-poop server-crasher that is Odin, have it so the FATEs will spawn in multiple areas at the same time(three, four or maybe five areas). It should require GOLD to earn the piece if the devs really, really desire the quest to last long, I guess.

tl;dr make you do the equivalent of 12 Odins.

I'm not saying I'd like it, but I think that'd be better than this RNG.

[Crimzon]

Have played pretty much non-stop the first couple days after patch. I have done some of the other content as well, but a huge chunk of that time was attempting to get these atma. According to the FATE achievement, i have completed over 250 FATES, since acquiring the Up in Arms quest. Spent at least 20 hours on just that. I have 0 atma. Makes me not even want to turn on the game anymore. GG SE, I really want to grind low level trash mobs 24/7 for the next 3 months.

Out of all the bad ideas, that have been associated with this game...this could be the worst.

[Teykos]

You know what they could have done if they wanted to use FATES and make it last long? Have specific FATES for the zodiac and make them appear as randomly and rarely as Odin. Maybe even more rare.

However, to avoid it being exactly like the cluster-poop server-crasher that is Odin, have it so the FATEs will spawn in multiple areas at the same time(three, four or maybe five areas). It should require GOLD to earn the piece if the devs really, really desire the quest to last long, I guess.

tl;dr make you do the equivalent of 12 Odins.

I'm not saying I'd like it, but I think that'd be better than this RNG.

Not really.

If you wanted to require FATEs AND make it be a long grind without having to meddle with server load, it would be better to have a meter for each zone measuring the FATE rewards you get that awards you the Atma after you reach the zone goal for that Atma and then reset back to 0. That would ALSO have people try to gun for the higher level FATEs more instead of swarming only the lower level, easier FATEs.

This part is supposed to be an easy, but long, grind, and having one person get it after 1-2 FATEs and someone else not get it after 500+ FATEs is very screwed up for the people who didn't get it.

[LexSunfire]

You know what they could have done if they wanted to use FATES and make it last long? Have specific FATES for the zodiac and make them appear as randomly and rarely as Odin. Maybe even more rare.

I don't agree. for people like me that only get to play a couple hours a day, having Odin pop during those couple hours is rare enough as it is. forcing me to hope that during the couple hours I can play that an atma fate pops would be worse in my opinion than having to grind fates with a low drop rates. at least grinding fates I know for sure I can do in the couple of hours i'm on.

[Elim]

I don't agree. for people like me that only get to play a couple hours a day, having Odin pop during those couple hours is rare enough as it is. forcing me to hope that during the couple hours I can play that an atma fate pops would be worse in my opinion than having to grind fates with a low drop rates. at least grinding fates I know for sure I can do in the couple of hours i'm on.

Problem with this is you could log on every day, do it for the hours you have to play and NEVER get a single Atma with RNG. Of course on the flip side you could get a Atma every time.

[Arkghyom]

Grinding to the max!

[Jaybot]

Have any of the devs seen this thread, or the numerous other complaints on other websites like Reddit? Has their been some kind of response from them?

This is just maddening.