Quote Originally Posted by Sholah View Post
No, that's the exact reason it -shouldn't- be nerfed. A relic is supposed to take time and effort. The UAT weapons are what you fall back on while waiting to upgrade your relic or get that Coil drop. Not everything in this game needs to be given to you so easily. Have you people ever heard of effort and dedication? Have you ever actually worked for anything?
RNG allows the words "Effort" and "dedication" be incredibly skewed. I certainly have a lot of dedication and spent a lot of effort in getting 3 atmas in the span of one hour and 23 FATEs, while my FC mate spent days on a single one (Maiden I believe) that I literally hopped upon the first FATE when I joined her farming party.

The Atma step failed in gating how long it takes for someone to finish the step in that regard. The steps did a better job than this by requiring large amounts of mythology, alexendrites and lights (all of which can be curbed by having a lot of dedication and putting effort into actual grinding). Atma doesn't. Hell, Atma doesn't even give you a tangible reward and I feel like my weapon gets weaker with losing the glow...despite the goddamn NPC gloating that it has newfound powers and tells me to bask in it.