Quote Originally Posted by Yurihyuga View Post
tbh until we get in and find out no one knows for sure however if you think logically i doubt the new atmas are going to be skippable. Main reason being atmas are used to infuse a weapon not create one so the 1st step will be getting parts to make the weapon (which i believe is the new alex drops) then infuse them with the atmas however can probably skip alex since can use the zeta as a completed base and tbh if that is the case probably hardly worth the skip. Loads of people have a zeta and yoshida probably wants people doing fates in HW areas as no one does them making that skippable = what was the point.
But the fates are specifically used to gain items (crystals of various elements). These could be items used in the process of creating a weapon or infusing it.

I would wager that this is the skippable step, and in some sense they wanted anyone who is getting a relic to have done Atma's whether it was in 2.x or 3.x.