Something Needs to Change (Atma)

[DarkLordCthulhu]

The players that defend the current state of obtaining atmas are the ones that got lucky and found them in a reasonable amount of time. Theyre going to respond with "QQ and put in the time if you want your atma." Thats the issue tho. Most of us have put in the time, some even more time than those who already finished that part of the quest, and have nothing to show for it. You cant just say "put in the time" cause there is NO GUARANTEE that even if you put in the time you will get the atmas. How is it okay for someone to find 12 atma pieces in say 400 FATE while others are at 800+ and yet to even be half way done with the quest? Explain to me how this is type of system is ok.

And dont tell me well theres other weapons you could get. Yes there is, but the relic/zodiac weapon updates are going to keep coming. A large majority of the community is paying for content (Animus/Novus) that SE is keeping us from enjoying by implementing a stupid RNG element to the atma stage.

No i dont want the relic upgrade to be handed to me. No I dont mind a grind. I want to work for my upgrade. Yesterday I FATE grinded for 4 hours after my daily roulette and have nothing to show for it. While a PLD that join my FATE party received his atma after 15 minutes of joining. How is something like that ok?

Some of yall need to get off your high horse and see how truly broken this system is.

[ServerCollaps]

yesterday I ran out of ventures and decided to do some fates in high lvl areas with equiped zenith weapon

after 2 fates I got the atma in the sahagin area, 3 fates later in the cobold mine and after another 2 fates I got the east shroud atma, all 3 in 20-30 minutes

If you dont really want them you'll find them xD

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

I have a friend that started the Atma grind before me, perhaps 3 days before me and had NOTHING. I start, and get my first 5 within 2 hours. #6 took 3 days in Western Thanalan. # was 2 WEEKS in Outer La Noscea. I stopped for almost a month, burned out and unmotivated to play at all. During this time, I believe my friend had finally gotten some drops and ultimately finished before me. So painstakingly I went back to it. 2 days for #8, then #9-11 all on a Saturday. #12 I spent a Sunday getting. While relieved, when I discovered that I really only had a recolored Zenith weapon,my motivation went right out the window once again. It would be another month and a half before I just tossed my first Atma book and stopped caring.

There are people who started roughly around the same time as me, put in more time than me, and still have NOTHING. That is not okay.

SE took the weapon I was so excited to earn and completely devalued it. I don't even want to look at it now I keep it glamoured, and as soon as I can replace it, I might just trash it. . . An Atma weapon is not worth the effort wasted for it. Animus itself isn't much more of an incentive, and Novus -personally - means less than the Atma weapon to me now.

Here's hoping newer content maybe brings "in-between" type weapons (i.e. i105 or so). I'll take that or a Coil/Primal weapon in a heartbeat.