Quote Originally Posted by Madruck View Post
To all those who are reading this that have earned your Animus, good for you....if you were that player who spent 100 plus hours farming low level fates that provided no skill development or just reward, was it really worth it? To some who answer yes, really???
Yes because to me the current Atma takes as much if not less time for many that had issues getting the relic weapon when it was released.

Relic: Get "broken weapon", craft and meld weapon, kill chimera, do Admador Keep, kill beastmen, kill Hydra, do primal hard modes, purchase item in Mhor Dona.
Atma: Get 12 atma pieces through fate

Doing the Relic Reborn quest consisted in the luck of getting that materia if you were doing it yourself. Unless you had the money to buy the materia and offering the crafters fee which back then wasn't as simple as doing it now due to the various and elaborate additional means of making gil.

Zenith: 3x Thavnairian Mist. (Myth capped at 300 per week)
Animus: Buy book, complete the books pre-requisites, rinse and repeat.

So it ends up being subjective because from my point of view the overall process isn't as "free" as you make it out to be.

I'd agree to the fact that there needs to be alternatives that don't revolve around low drop rates. Yet I don't agree with your tantrum. If you don't want to spend the time and effort like everyone else then you have no right to complain that others have it because they did in fact spend the time and effort to finish it unlike you.