People are loving this patch; we need to be more vocal.

[Appleh4x]

Loving it? I have 81 days left on my sub and all I've been doing since 2.2 went live is try to figure out a way to suspend it. As a tank who loved crafted accs for the ability to let me deal solid damage without losing mitigation this update took the wind out of my sails by not releasing i90 crafted accs. Coil gives so few tomes of both myth now and soldiery that the only reason to do 1-5 is for allagan drops which are now as good as welfare gear, HM versions of dungeons don't interest me at all, and th zodiac weapons are a huge waste of time considering you can get an equivalent weapon from doing 1 fight.

[Teratel]

I like the new storyline. I wish there were more kill stuff quests instead of so much go here quests, but the story is good. I haven't had a chance to get to new dungeons yet but seeing the reactions, I am excited for the new hard modes and Lost City.

Most seem to hate the new relic quest, but I am glad there is something always in the background I can work on over the next few weeks. Glad it's not the only way to get good weapons as well.

[FJerome]

New Hildebrand and Beast Tribe Quests <3 <3 <3

Played for an hour this morning and was already rewarded with finding out what a sexy kobold lady looks like. A++

[Appleh4x]

Forgot to mention that all new crafted i90s are pretty much a waste of time. The amount of effort, gil, time and jobs needed to create an HQi90 piece doesn't equal the worth you would get out of it.

[Seraphe]

Wait a few weeks.. player will have everything capped and hate it. (except lockouts of course :P -> Tuesday/Wednesday game)

[Lord_Zlatan]

SE responds fairly accurately to what the player opinion is. They likely expected a knee-jerk reaction (which will cushion the impact) but all these players QQing will do some amount of damage to a great patch.

Honestly, you can get your Atma weapon in a day grinding, depending on your luck. I am at 8 right now, and had time to do a chunk of the new dungeons too. After that, you can get your Anima weapon for 13.5k myths. That is NOT by any means a large amount of myths for a legendary weapon. If you have a friend or two to run dungeons with for faster queues, you can get it done within 70-90 hours. That really is not that much at all; easily done within 2 weeks max.

Now, I won't talk about the rest of the new content; mostly because most of the negativity is about having to actually grind and spend a chunk of hours to get an item.

EDIT: But seriously, Lost City is fantastic, the new hard modes are at least par too.

in addition, people are complaining about the animas dropping via FATES. I personally like this a lot. not because I like fates but it GETS PEOPLE OUT INTO THE WORLD which is what a lot of people complained about. I like it even more because SE took one of there existing game systems, and used it to give people what they want. Good job out of them. Is it perfect? no, but we have options which is what people wanted in the first place.

[KrenianKandos]

If there's one thing i've learned about people, it's this:

People will bitch about SOMETHING at any possible time.

You will never ever make people happy. Won't happen. Just do what you can and hope for the best.

2.2 opened up a slew of things I need to do now and should keep me fairly busy.

[ZeroHigh]

I'm loving the new patch myself. Regarding the Atma drops..Weren't people saying all they did was stand in Mor Dhona with nothing to do? That they wanted a reason to be in zones other than Cities? lol. So you didn't get all your Atma's in 2 hours? Tough luck. If you did, it'd be, "its too easy" "nothing to do." Threads all over again. haha.

[Zourin]

I won't complain about the direction, but I would complain about the methodology. FATE's are pretty low-grade, not-happy content that can come and go as fast as people can zerg them, but it's the best vehicle for 'get the f*** out of town and stab things' that doesn't involve party queues and dead-horse dungeons.

They would have been better off being larger, tougher, rarer FATE's like Odin that would at least get your average L50 hopeful into high gear on hearing that it's 'up'.

[TheUltimate3]

I'm loving the new patch myself. Regarding the Atma drops..Weren't people saying all they did was stand in Mor Dhona with nothing to do? That they wanted a reason to be in zones other than Cities? lol. So you didn't get all your Atma's in 2 hours? Tough luck. If you did, it'd be, "its too easy" "nothing to do." Threads all over again. haha.

A strange conundrum.

People wanted reasons to be out in the open world, and many used things like NMs that would spawn and have a chance of dropping something unique.

What they got were a questline involving FATEs which, you guessed it, spawn with a chance of dropping something unique.

I personally feel the main reason why people are complaining is because it was a FATE and not a NM.

I haven't played it yet today (work day begins at 5am) but I look forward to the Zodiac grind. Will let me actually use my conjurer for something other than duty roulette ^_^