What ATMA's do you use?

I'm going around and I'm curious what ATMA's do you use and what ATMA's do you suggest.

Do you have a Dream Setup? and be sure to include the situation you use them in.

ie NM, Weakness Targeting, Farming etc?

can't wait to see what you guys have to suggest

Usually a combination of Deep devourer, Merciless Matriarch, Minkin Monstruosity and Cameradiere.
Allure if i need extra mp and less enmity.
Voracious Violet if i need to proc staff.

on brd/whm which is my preferred job choice I use MM MM and Apoc or Atma of the Minikin Monstrosity: Refresh:+10, Int:+50, Enmity:-20 Atma of the Merciless Matriarch: Magic Accuracy+: Superior, Fast Cast: Superior, (Same elemental magic as weather) Enmity-: Superior And Atma of the Apocalypse: "Triple Attack"+: Superior (15%), Quick Magic, Auto-Reraise (Reraise III). The 10mp refresh paired w/ ballad II and III with all the refresh gear I have for when im under 150mp provides enough constant refresh that i can spam Cure III back to back when needed. The enmity down certainly helps because i still pull hate at times with it so i would hate to see how bad it is without it. I just wish there was an atma with +50 chr instead of 50 int but the rest the same. oh well. Magic Accuracy is pretty much always capped with Merciless Matriarch and it helps that much more when trying to land songs on very resistance monsters. The Fast Cast Allows my brd to reach the -50% song spell casting time with out the need to use the Minstrel's Ring and with out needing to lug around an entire -hp set just to trigger its latent effect. Currently I am at -47 song spell casting with fast cast from gear added and able to reach -50 with Sheikh Manteel or -49 with the NQ version. Also my balance for cure spells is at -30-33% depending how much the Ebur Tam really has. All these stats are for outside abyssea. Once inside the atmas just help that much more. The quick cast and auto RR III is too powerful on a support job such as brd/whm to ever pass up. I can not tell you how many times both have basicly been the difference between a total wipe and victory.

I use:

Blighted Breath (for Song recast- superior)
the Merciless Matriarch (for Magic Accuracy and Fast Cast superior)
the Despot (for CHR+ Superior)

if I am the only one who can heal or proc some Light magic, I'll substitute Blighted Breath with Minikin Monstrocity for the Refresh Superior

there are CHR atmas out there, Despot and Thrashing Tendrils come to mind

i found the +30 from cruor buff to be enough. better to stack mac+ and recast/cast time

I usually use Minikin Monstrosity, Deep Devourer, and Rescuer, but that's just sort of what seemed nice at first glance. Macc hasn't been an issue at all yet, but I generally don't get to play Bard too much in Abyssea.

the truth is, brd doesnt really need much and have a poor choice of atma.

whenever theres talk about anything bard all i ever think about is from the movie Dorkness Raising

"Hide behind the pile of dead bards"

lol okay i'm googling "Dorkness Raising" and got a video on youtube so going to watch it now.

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Originally Posted by Superchicken

whenever theres talk about anything bard all i ever think about is from the movie Dorkness Raising

"Hide behind the pile of dead bards"

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VV, RR, Apoc. I have Evisceration, might as well use it.

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Originally Posted by Superchicken

there are CHR atmas out there, Despot and Thrashing Tendrils come to mind

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CHR isn't as potent as MACC once you hit 10+ over your enemy's CHR stat (Hence why back in the day 110+10 was the ideal CHR spot for BRDs) so once you hit past that, CHR only adds .5 macc per CHR. So MACC would offer the most benefit. There aren't any BRD NMs in abyssea either so NM's chr stat won't be high at all.

I personally use MM, Merciless Matriarch and Apoc. I wear apoc since it's nice to have quick cast proc on your buffs and threnodies when you're trying to land them.

In almost any situation, I'll use Minikin as my first default atma. I used to use Deep Devourer, but it doesn't have very much impact if you're stacking many pieces of -song spellcasting and fast cast gear. If I'm not the only healer, I'll use Sea Daughter to help with red and blue procs. Merciless Matriarch or Razed Ruins as the third atma depending on my mood.

As someone said earlier, there really aren't that many good BRD atmas; I think the two logical choices are to gear for melee/wsing or to enhance the job's support capabilities.

Sometimes it's appropriate to use other atma as well, such as elemental resist or something.

Atma of Undying Loyalty: CHR+:Minor Accuracy+:Major Magic Accuracy+:Major Volker's Camp: Complete all Quests&Ops(Altepa)* 1000

Also, being taru I occasionally use Ultimate, even when /whm I don't miss the 25% mp. I don't have other superior M.Acc+ atmas yet.

Taken from wiki

RR,GH,Apoc when /nin since i like to screw around.
minikin, rescuer, Matriach when /whm for all the fast cast but I'm probably going to plop in Apoc once i pick what i need the least. Most likely im going to remove minikin as if I really cared i could just ballad myself.