Personally the atma grind is working as intended took 50 hours for me roughly give or take to get the 12. Try getting a relic in FFXI then come back and complain about atma grinding.

The books are brilliant gives you a variety of things to do to grind, however my only gripe is the fates in the book as some if not all are rare fates with long spawn times and have to hope other people are doing it to get a clear/gold.

However the mythology grinding is boring as hell 1500 per book is steep, I personally think this should be lowered to 500 we still have to work through the book so not like its a 500 myth trade off for instant stat.

However the pansies are complaining in full force and the atma grind is probably gonna be sped up most likely soon.