I agree that nobody is forcing anyone to farm atma. However, a huge element of wanting to see and run endgame content is wanting to have the best gear in the game. First of all, the gamers who run endgame content and the gamers who would want so spend 5-6000 hours running mindless low level content are rarely the same. So to say spending several hours doing something you wont enjoy just so you can have an item to use for content you actually will enjoy is just silly. Second of all, I consider the relic weapon quests a main part of the FFXIV experience. We are forced to do a long and unexciting main story line in order to unlock so much of this games content (WHY?!) So of course we are going to do a little bit more to get awesome gear. The part everyone is having a hard time with is why an extremely low drop rate item farm would be the next step in this saga. In theory you could potentially NEVER receive a SINGLE ATMA let alone 12!