To those worried about not having their animus yet

[C-croft]

To me, I think the books were meant to be the long grindy part, not so much with the ATMA. They failed with RNG before. Hello T1 drops.

[NorthernLadMSP]

It's very clear now they want everyone to have it and to earn it in a week tops

You're making a very dramatic assumption, as you have no details on what, if any, changes are being made. If they hand out Animus weapons to everyone on a silver platter after this, then complain.

[AlrikRouge]

(snip)Laziness has nothing to do with it, it is pure luck...(snip)

I decided to do a little atma farming with an FC mate. I myself haven't been too lucky, but he had spent 6 hours farming this area.

Anyway, 3 fates into it, I got an atma. Told him so, he said "grats!" but I still offered to do more to help him. 30 minutes later, he gave up. Meanwhile, and I didn't have the heart to say so, I had gotten a SECOND one.

I still don't atma farm on a regular basis. Two hours at a time is enough for me every 3 or 4 days. Still only 4 atma and one duplicat though.

[ZReport]

You're making a very dramatic assumption, as you have no details on what, if any, changes are being made. If they hand out Animus weapons to everyone on a silver platter after this, then complain.

It is indeed pretty dramatic. At best Yoshi is probably taken aback at how many people are stuck at the farming Atma stage.

I doubt the Atma to Animus stage will be changed at all, but the Zenith to Atma stage will definitely see some changes. Having something be so hugely dependent on RNG is terrible, especially when the drop rate is coming in at 5% or so. We'll probably see an increase to about 30%. I will also guess that in the coming days he will explain how the Atma stage was supposed to be a way of having high levels help out lowbies complete FATEs at a more normal frequency.

[RumiP]

Not working as intended if you postpone a patch because what you considered reasonable was not.

But carry on with you hyperbole.

I'm absolutely stunned this is still an active thread after this bomb hit it.

[Orophin]

It took me about a week and a half of grinding, at two hours a day, to get all my Atma. Am I glad the grind is finally over? Heck yeah. Do I think the grind is just fine? Heck no. It needs to change. There were times I got so frustrated with the grind that, in order to keep from breaking my keyboard, I had to quit playing FFXIV and go off and do something else.

I don't understand why people go after the Atmas like it's the only content in the game to do.

[NinjaTaru72]

I think it's working as intended but people still managed to race through it (luck/time) and to prevent those from getting to far ahead they are holding off. I think it's good. Make people sit back and relax. No need to bum rush patches and beat it within a month

[dejavutwo]

What Yoshi P said could still be consistent if when he originally said that most people will not have finished the Atma quests he expected a certain percentage to have finished it, and the overall average to have progressed X books through, but considering they are delaying the next step, the reality is probably that the overall progress is nowhere near where they expected it to be.

I finished my Fate Grind the first weekend, but I would still gladly see it nerfed into oblivion.

[Felis]

Letter from the Producer, LVI (04/23/2014)

"I know some of our players have been looking forward to the continuation of the Zodiac Weapons quests that I mentioned in the recent letter LIVE, but the 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 don't think that it mean that they delayed the next quest because not many players have already their weapon, but that they decide to work still on it to make it better because not many players have their weapon already. Better make only some players now angry than many players latter the moment they hit the unpolished next tier (maybe a new grind).

[JTribal]

[QUOTE=AlrikRouge;2056039]Anyway, 3 fates into it, I got an atma. Told him so, he said "grats!" but I still offered to do more to help him. 30 minutes later, he gave up. Meanwhile, and I didn't have the heart to say so, I had gotten a SECOND one.

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Exactly! A freind of mine wanted me to group with him for Atma farming the other day. Five minutes after I joned his party, I got an Atma. How long had he been there? More than five HOURS. So I tell him, we teleport to a different zone, five minutes in, I get ANOTHER Atma. I felt horrible.

Granted, I haven't gotten one since, and I've spent more than a few hours farming in Southern (I think) Thanalan.

The system is flawed.