Novus weapon upgrade system findings

[KaitlynOfOz]

I've been reading all the pages so far and so far no one has really commented on the elephant in the room, the requirements for the fate drops.

So to get an Atma item to drop (which bizarrely is still an inventory item and not a key item) you have to have a Zenith weapon equipped. Ok, so you collect 12 and you get your Atma weapon but stop getting Atma drops from Fates and have to actively do fates with a Zenith weapon if you want to collect more Atma to upgrade more relics. Now we have the Novus quest and the Alexandrites only drop with the Animus equipped which when equipped will not have Atmas drop. Conversely to get Atmas you need a Zenith which will make Alexandrites not drop. Does no one see this as a problem or an extension of an already hated grind?

The system should be that I start the Zodiac quest with Zenith and I farm fates for Atma (farm, farm, farm, kill keyboard, farm, farm, farm). Now I have an Atma weapon. Any fate I do should have the same chance for an Atma to drop so I can Atma my remaining Zeniths using my Atma weapon or Zenith weapon. Now I have an Animus weapon and start hunting for Alexandrites which I should also have a chance for Atmas to drop so I can Atma my remaining Zeniths. If I choose to Fate with Zeniths I should still get a chance at Alexandrites since its the highest item in my Zodiac quest line.

To be forced to farm Fates (community has deemed to be a serious problem) not only once but twice for two sets of drops that don't even overlap in their drop rates. All those people who have gone weeks and months without an Atma drop now get to double down on that experience with Alexandrites and this is completely ignoring the Myth farming.

There was a chance here to make an onerous process at least have some benefit, but instead doubled down on it. Sure this weapon is a long term grind for those of us not in Second Coil, but the amount of time most have put into getting just the Atmas, we could have been spiritbinding and selling the Materia and buying T5 farm parties for the drop and even into the Second Coil. This just doesn't seem right.