SE why??

[JonBigwood]

It is NOT working for a weapon that's an issue, it's the system it is based on

I think most of us agree, doing FATEs and getting nothing is discouraging.

I decided to take it easy, cap the soldiery tomes weekly, level alt classes, do FATEs while I queue, and try to not obsess with FATEs. It takes longer, yes, but you do other things in the meantime. I did like that, and maybe 1 week with no atmas, 2 atmas in 1 day, another week and no atmas, etc. You may well have bad luck all the time for a long time. 3 atmas in one week is quite good, unless you spend a lot of hours a day. At this pace you'll have the atma weapon in 4 weeks. BUT...it may be much better or worse.

The books are better in a way, since you know what work you have to do and how much it will take. BUT you get really bored of farming myth tomes. I don't know how much time it took me, but a bit under a week for each book x 9 books, between 7 and 8 weeks. Not doing anything else but farming myth tomes and fulfilling the books. While I farmed atmas I did other things since I couldn't stand farming more atmas, lol. But you farm myths and complete the books because you know you will advance. What is better?

When you reach the Animus (just arrived) then you have to farm another 1.500 myth tomes for the scroll!!!

At least now, if you just do your expert roulette daily you get 1 map and hopefully 1 alexandrite daily if you don't die doing the map, 75 days. You want things quick? Then you can farm myth and buy mysterious maps (I can't hear speaking about that right now, lol) or farm FATEs to see if an Alexandrite drops, (humm, not my favourite plate ;-). I think I may have time to do other things if I just do the Expert Roulette daily and the map and forget about farming myth tomes or FATEs. It takes time? Let's be it.

Someone who is in a hurry can pay a lot of myth tomes for a mysterious map (800 I think) or farm fates like for the atma and see if an alexandrite drops (I tried, no drops in this first day.) I think people who are in a hurry are made to pay it dearly. I don't think it is worth it for me.

Edit: As you see, I opted for not repeating Brayflox HM speed runs ad nauseam. I have tried SR and sometimes they have worked, even duty roulettes Speed Runs work fine with the right group, but finding a group that works well with the Party Finder is not that easy. I don't find it's to my liking to practice with a group till it works, changing members, etc., then next day start looking for a new group and start practicing again.

Making a static group may be wonderful, although farming with a lot of repetition. But if you do roulettes you also repeat content, at least the Main Story Roulette has only 2 varieties. Making it last as less as possible is also a good sensation. Anyway 1.500 tomes are 30 Speed Runs. Also several days of roulettes...

Maybe farming 800 tomes for a mysterious map doing Brayflox HM 2 bosses in a super SR is not as horrible as it seems to me, I don't know. This would be 16 Brayflox HM 2 bosses for 1 mysterious map, and you can co-operate with the maps in 2 groups of 2 players. With a static it doesn't look that bad. Especially compared with "n" FATEs for the alexandrite.

Even then, there is a lot of new content coming in next patch so we can as well obtain the upgrades as we also do the new content.