Quote Originally Posted by Starvald View Post
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>Atma is not BiS. It's technically not even a Ilvl 100 item, it only has that tag with the actual stats of a Ilvl 90 item. It never obtains Ilvl 100 stats until you upgrade it to Animus (which is the animus step and on the animus weapon, this thread is specifically toward Atma)...

>Animus and Novus have all been indirectly nerfed due to how saturated the game is with mythology tomes, mostly due to hunts. Also, the ire that Atma earns on the forums is far more than what animus gets (with the only thing I've seen is some of the FATE appearances such as Giant Seps...which has died out in thread history) So in response to what taliph mentiin, you are making a really huge jump from the RNG-ordeal from atma versus the myth costs of animus.

>1300 tokens still takes three weeks. That's essentially the same progression as a typical person working towards Novus with the Alexendrites. The fact that unweathered weapons are even more easy to obtain in comparison to relic leaves me to question just what place does relic have in the grand scheme of thing as far as gearing up is concerned. It hasn't even been BiS up until Nexus, and that's only from secondary stats.
>>People keep saying that they don't want relic to be handed out with minimal effort...Well thats the thing...the Atma step outright fails with that with how incredibly varied RNG can be. I don't think its doing a very good job at being the gateholder if people can get all 12 within 2 days... it suddenly becomes an easier and shorter step than zenith even in today's mythology standards, all the while the same possibility of someone taking months to get all 12.

>And people have quit the game over this. "It's optional content, get over it.". Not everything appeals to everyone. The same people who make this statement sympathize with people who have quit frontlines because cleric stance got removed, because their choice of content doesn't appeal to them anymore.