Before you judge the thread just hear me out for a second.

This farming for the Atmas, I can understand it, I can see the need for some players to enjoy the grind and the time they can spare to farm four hours on end.

I would even do it myself except for the part where I feel the current system is flawed, 2 Atmas in and I don't even know how many hours later anymore my gripe comes from the blindness of the quest itself.

We are to follow blindly to these zones to farm for Atma based on a very low % in a RNG.

This is utterly silly, I am that small percentage of players that are stuck currently, while I enjoy the game and want to succeed. I am stuck with a Zenith and nothing else, I am unable to get into successful groups to upgrade my weapon and as a result I need a more casual approach to upgrading my weapon. Unfortunately, I no longer have a lifestyle that can devote more than a couple hours a day with the occasional full day of game time on weekends. Why would I do that wasting it farming FATES and not really getting anything (except for the small possibility of a lucky streak, I might as well go get hit by lightning).

Why I would have much rather have farmed a dungeon 100 times each for an item that may drop at the end to combine for the Animus than to do what is currently in game.

The carrot on the stick is needed for this, but we have absolutely nothing to grade our progress on unless we actually get a drop. I wish that I had to farm 100 fates in a zone and then on FATES 100 got the drop and it was tracked in the achievement window than do what we're doing right now.

At least I could track my progress and give myself incentive to continue. Seeing the goal and just expecting to get there some day is a lot different than seeing the path you walk on and the progress you're making. I don't mind things being hard, I mind things feeling complicated for no reason.

Anyway, I may have ranted a bit, but if this gets traction I will clarify anything as the thread goes on.


Signed,

A frustrated gamer.