Quote Originally Posted by Amused View Post
If you don't like Atma, don't do it. You don't need a relic weapon. Just use the alternatives rather than trying to force them to change content that wasn't designed for you. It's nice to have long term goals to work toward in this game.
Long term goal yes, but only for one stage. Like Gallus said, the whole process to get your relic up to date is obscene (Zenith-Atma-Animus-Novus and now Nexus). I play during all my free time, that's almost every night and all weekends, didn't get a single atma so I decided to grind i110 gear and EX primal instead.

For a player that starts his relic, he now will never get it, because of how soon the next step arrives. So yes, it is nice to have a long-term goal when you're at the highest level and a new one comes up (Novus to Nexus), but like they eased the CT 1 and Binding Coil, they should also ease ATMA to let time to new players or slow ones like me a chance to catch up.