The Atma horror story I think has been one of SE's biggest mistakes. It really is tedious, long and boooooooooooooooring. Killing level 5 flans with ruins for 70 hours is absolutely atrocious and whoever that came up with that idea should've really...thought of something better. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound like an hypocrite because I've done the atma quest, I wanted my relic because I like my SCH very much, but the books and the scroll from novus, despite being SIGNIFICANTLY longer, are far more entertaining. I remember, after going through the atma horror story (which took me 2 weeks), I said to myself, if SE does something similar to this a couple times more, I'm out. Good thing they learnt from their mistakes, but they messed it up in the past and can't really fix it now...because if they do people that went through the atma horror story will be butthurt over people having a lot less trouble doing it, and that would be unfair. So they'll probably wait a bit more.