Do I need Atma?

[toddx77]

I never bothered to get the Atma weapons when they came out since I spend all night trying to get a second stone to get and it never did lol, so now my bard's gear is either tomestone of soldiery gear or coil gear with a zenith weapon. To get ready for the expansion I was thinking to get all tomestones of poetics gear for her then since the level cap is being raised I would natually get 61+ level weapons while leveling. I know we don't know everything about the expansion yet, but will I be ok without Atma or am I going to need it?

[Xakery]

Really? Why did you even bother to ask? Atmas are super easy to get now and take little time to get. I think someone said the yoshi P said (don't have an actual quote)the zodiac weapons will be the best weapons in the game.
If you are like so many other casuals then don't bother and be mediocre in this game. What you put in is what you will reap from it.

[toddx77]

I did take a break for a few months so I guess I didn't hear that atma was easier to get. Trying to farm a second atma brought back horrible memories of looking for coffers in FFXI for AF gear lol.

[Xakery]

It only got "easier" because people like you. I had no issue with doing lots of fates to try for 1 atma. It just meant more GC seals and closer to my 3k fate achievement, which I have now. You should do some research maybe before crying over a video game. Also, I cannot stress this enough, this is not FFXI or any other MMO. This is FFXIV and some of us die hards have been playing since 1.0 launch.
People like you are cute.

[Ruri]

If you dont want to relic can always get 110 weapons from shiva etc

[Xakery]

If you dont want to relic can always get 110 weapons from shiva etc

or unweathering the soldiery weapons but they'll be obsolete eventually too
the zodiac weapons will keep going?

[Garlyle]

You don't "need" to progress your Relic. There's always alternatives. Going to Zenith isn't a bad idea because it's relatively painless for an i90, but even still - you can get an easy i100 weapon with an Unidentified Allagan Tomestone from Syrcus Tower (trust me your competition on this drop will be very low); and an easy i110 if you can upgrade that with a sands of time from the same location/second coil (Might take a few runs, but really, Syrcus isn't hard). And I'd wager that i110 is probably good enough to do everything in the game right now. A possible exception being Final Coil, but you can even get an i115 without ever stepping in there (Turn 9 drop, Shiva EX upgraded weapon) and then an i130 if you can clear the first couple turns, so...

[Gardes]

Atma is pretty easy to get now. If you dont get any atmas by the one hour mark of casually fating (instead of try hard-ing to tag every fate in the zone and clearing as fast as possible), start suspecting something is up and change to another zenith weapon or change zones. I recently completed my 3rd set of atma for blm and was using pld to get the atmas. Majority of the atma stones were acquired within 10 fates. The other ones that took me 3+ hours (about 3 of them), I started getting suspicious and switched to another zenith weapon and on 2 of them, I got them on the very next fate. Could all just be coincidence but I'm basically still saying that you can finish 1 atma set in 1 day or less if you wanted to.

[RiceisNice]

or unweathering the soldiery weapons but they'll be obsolete eventually too
the zodiac weapons will keep going?

This is in the same line of ilvl 125 zodiac becoming "Obsolete" when the ilvl 135 version comes out. The difference is that you need the ilvl 125 zodiac specifically to get to 135 eventually (versus upgrading from a weathered soldierly, ilvl100 straight to diamond weapons, ilvl 115).

[Eye_Gore]

It only got "easier" because people like you. I had no issue with doing lots of fates to try for 1 atma. It just meant more GC seals and closer to my 3k fate achievement, which I have now. You should do some research maybe before crying over a video game. Also, I cannot stress this enough, this is not FFXI or any other MMO. This is FFXIV and some of us die hards have been playing since 1.0 launch.
People like you are cute.

You must be a joy to be around. Must be one of those "know the fight, show proof or you will be kicked" people that I laugh at and have an empty party in the PF. Person is just asking a simple question. Some people don't have time to do certain things in game or concentrate on other aspects of the game that they like to do. They are not crying, they are asking a question. Should go see the sun, its making you cranky. Merry Christmas!!!

People like you are well.... I can't say at a chance of being banned.