The Atma Stigma

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

Atmas don't do anything other than giving your weapon a slightly new coat of paint.

Wrong. They allow you to begin the Animus quests.

You keep saying instant gratification every time someone complains, but I got a feeling you're just saying that towards anyone who don't like how progression and RNG are mixed together.

Because it simply is. They want everything to be as easy as getting the original relic. Which you must realize as of now is a joke what with the echo boost. Even without it, Titan HM is still a joke.

Many have given suggestions on other ways to make Atmas challenging to get but less reliant on RNG drops, yet they're still branded as people who either "want everything with no work" or "lol FF11". I gotten all 12 of my Atmas and I still found them to be BS, not to mention the new Allagan weapons are not only better than the Animus weapons, but are, in a sense, easier to get. How does that make any sense?

How is grinding through X00 amount of FATEs any less challenging than doing Brayflox HM 300 times? I even know people who don't do Bray SRs because they're so tired of it. In the end, we end up with the community getting Goldilocks syndrome, i.e. "this porridge is too hot/cold," but it will never be "just right." As I posted earlier, how would people feel, spending all their time grinding for atmas, only to be told "next month we're giving everyone all 12 atmas for free via moogle mail!" ? And how is getting the Allagan/Tidal weapons not RNG? You're not guaranteed the drop you want, and even if you did happen to come upon the drop you want, there's always a chance someone may be playing the same class as you who also wants said drop, so you'd have to roll against them on the item, thus forcing another RNG component to decide who gets what.

Some people want RNG, some people don't. I'm neither for or against it. What I'm in favor of is sticking through how the game is designed, albeit it being a poorly thought out one.

Hell, despite Square outright stating that the number of people who gotten Animus is extremely low and that the patch containing Novus is getting delayed until they can figure out a way to redo the Animus quest line, Why aren't more people posting angrily that the scrubs complaining about Atma are holding their future content back?

Because they've been given word that it will come eventually. Those that have Animus just have to sit back and wait. Which, in the meantime I'm sure they're doing T7-9 already. Also, SE never said ANYTHING about nerfing the atma/animus line. What they said was they were taking all the feedback FROM the questline and figuring out how to make the Novus quests better.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/162520

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.
We would like to incorporate feedback regarding the difficulty of the Zodiac Weapon quests.
We are working to increase the number of locations where materials for the next upgrade can be obtained.

Nothing about atma/animus. Reads more about the Novus quests.