Devs - Is the Zodiac questline going to be nerfed in the near future?

[MasamuneBranford]

The Zodiac questline requires an enormous amount of time to complete. Some have finished and many are still working on it. Per the recent letter from the producer, the dev team is looking into the difficulty of the Zodiac questline. Does this signal that a nerf is on the horizon?

If the Zodiac questline is nerfed, it is going to upset many players whom slaved away to get their upgraded weapons. With the greater majority either still on the fence or currently working towards a zodiac weapon it is important that the community knows whether a nerf is coming. Every day that we don't receive an answer is just going to upset more people who might spend 30+ hours to obtain their atma only to find out that it is going to be made easier to obtain atma in the next update (same goes with myth).

So could we have more transparency? Could you let us know if you are leaning towards a nerf or not (to avoid unnecessary waste of our time)?

[Remus]

People who already have Animus: "Unfair i worked hard for my weapon and now you nerf it!?"
People without a Animus: "Finally i can get atma down without so much grind and time consumption!"
People who don't want easy content: "Great now the new zodiac quest is as easy as the previous relic quest gg SE catering to the casuals ofc..."

On a serious note, highly likely gonna get nerfed due to the sheer amount of people who are still collecting atma and its all based around RNG with super low rates and it seems people don't like that so expect a change of the zodiac quest in the future.

:P

[Gormogon]

People who already have Animus: "Unfair i worked hard for my weapon and now you nerf it!?"

Sorry I have an animus and I'm all for this -> "We are working to increase the number of locations where materials for the next upgrade can be obtained".
What I ain't for is this -> "release of these new quests has been postponed. Our reasoning for this decision is, in brief: Many players still have yet to obtain an Animus weapon."

[Daenerys_Sedai]

Sorry I have an animus and I'm all for this -> "We are working to increase the number of locations where materials for the next upgrade can be obtained".
What I ain't for is this -> "release of these new quests has been postponed. Our reasoning for this decision is, in brief: Many players still have yet to obtain an Animus weapon."

like others have said. I'm baffled by this. They created this whole Atma RNG with the intent of keeping players from having an animus before 2.25 (and probably 2.3). Perhaps something was lost in translation? If not, then Yoshi is just looking for excuses..

[ReplicaX]

Sorry I have an animus and I'm all for this -> "We are working to increase the number of locations where materials for the next upgrade can be obtained".
What I ain't for is this -> "release of these new quests has been postponed. Our reasoning for this decision is, in brief: Many players still have yet to obtain an Animus weapon."

I take it a different way, as its also a translation. Seems like the original planned route for Novus was extremely bottlenecked and that is why they are delaying it to readjust. They also have data on everyone's progress now which is valuable to rethink and readjust planned content as well as general feedback.

[Gormogon]

I take it a different way, as its also a translation. Seems like the original planned route for Novus was extremely bottlenecked and that is why they are delaying it to readjust. They also have data on everyone's progress now which is valuable to rethink and readjust planned content as well as general feedback.

Please enlighten me. How would it hurt releasing the bottlenecked version in 2.25 and the fixed version in 2.28 again?

[ReplicaX]

Please enlighten me. How would it hurt releasing the bottlenecked version in 2.25 and the fixed version in 2.28 again?

Yoshi already mentioned it. Obviously there are too many negatives for them to release it on schedule as it is unbalanced.

We are working to ensure that the required materials can be obtained through various means, so we ask that you wait just a little longer until everything is properly balanced.

[SionDurant]

My ONLY complain about Atma

Is FATES and RNG, the two do not mix at all.

The droprate is atrocious for many players, I'm now at 30 hrs total atma grind and only 1 Atma (Fish) to show for it, and I'm not even developing myself in any other way.

If SE gave some concession and maybe allowed me to somehow grind on my lower levels for Atma so I don't feel I just dumped 30 hrs of my precious video gaming time into the toilet I'd be happier about this.

Or maybe SE could attach some kinda extra reward for people who fate with Zenith. Better yet, maybe even make fates drop Atma Fragments so that 10/10 Atma Maiden Fragments=1 Maiden.

[WHS]

What I took from the recent Letter was that they are taking this into consideration when making newer content for the Zodiac Weapons going forward. I didn't' get any impression it was to be retroactively nerfed. That's not to say they won't or can't. I just don't think it is necessary. Maybe if nobody has a animus weapon by patch 2.28 then we might want to show concern. However, seeing as players can achieve this upgrade overtime as it was announced I don't see a reason to change the entry to players at this time. We'll just have to see if SE does or not.

[XNihili]

If they nerf it, I may rage a bit at the beginning but why not, I can get myself to work for another weapon.