What Atmas Do You Use?

[Nattack]

It should be noted that an "opinion" is often erroneously used as an unbreakable shield against critique.

[HFX7686]

It should be noted that an "opinion" is often erroneously used as an unbreakable shield against critique.

Best quote ever.

[RaenRyong]

It should be noted that an "opinion" is often erroneously used as an unbreakable shield against critique.

THAT'S YOUR OPINION BRO

[wish12oz]

It should be noted that an "opinion" is often erroneously used as an unbreakable shield against critique.

I lul'd.
then I made my post contain at least 10 letters, so I could tell you I lul'd.

[Faule]

For dealing damage my Ninja uses: Razed Ruin/Gnarled Horn/Apoc.

For tanking my Ninja uses: The same thing as stated above.

As a tank, don't believe you aren't also a damage dealer. It's important that the 1 character who should have unfettered access to the enemy is making good use of the attention. If you are not the 1 character who is always fighting the enemy and you find you have a lot of down time, Voracious Violet may interest you. If you plan to use it for the TP regain while you aren't doing anything, I have to ask, do you bother looking around your current position for an easy enemy to kill to get 100% TP or more anyway? That simple act just may do the same thing for you without using an Atma slot.

The first atma I drop to put on mob specific atma, is Apoc. I'm a Kannagi Ninja, and during low man situations I have been known to swap Apoc for atmas with Elemental Resist +'s. Like those from Bennu/Dragua/Orthrus. I feel it increases my ease of tanking.

[vajral]

try beyond / ultimate and baying moon and you'll be a blm so you won't just stand there and watch while the mages kite/nuke
go for MDB/elemental resistence and you'll laugh when you see a ga4
go for RR/GH and whatever you like to do great damage.
experiment. play.
atmas let you be situationally geared without complaining for not having 500 inventory space, and it really depends what you're fighting and what's your gear
btw, RR is a MUST 99% of the time, if you're meleeing without that you'll be disappointed

[Orenwald]

I tend to only use Razed Ruins, Gnarled Horn, and Apocalypse in 99.7% of situations.

1)RR=DEX and Crit... Are you cwazy?!
2)GH=AGI and Crit for my Blade: Hi (Whappah!)
2)Apoca=Because I die a lot. It's how I roll xD

[Zad]

Im in a pet LS and 80% of the time i come NIN/DNC for red on events so i have to full time Apo/Despot/RR (since half the time i take hate from super sheep) which is actually pretty nice setup for solo aswell. But when I go xp, dont have Hi yet so i just play around with RR/VV/Stout Arm, RR/Apo/AaO (which i found to be the best setup for me) or a mixture of the 2 sets w/ RR being there always. Not saying this is THE best setup but its something that works for me atm.

[ThaiChi]

I'm with the general consensus with the RR/GH/Apoc. But throughout all the abyssea I've done, the combination has changed a lot. When I only have 1 lunar abyssite it was no question, Razed Ruins was the way to go. When I got my 2nd lunar, I threw on Voracious Violet to balance out the Blade: Jin modifiers. The more I played with it I realized after Razed Ruins, the 2nd atma became situational -- if I had to tank, I needed Cloak and Dagger or Siren Shadow. Then I got 3rd abyssite and put VV back on. Yay, best of everything, Blade: Jin damage surprisingly unaffected... Then I got Apoc, and shortly after, my Kannagi and Blade: Hi. I'd determined that the crit damage bonus for RR really made up for whatever STR I had forgone from not using VV, and my evasion set was upgraded rather rapidly in the course of the last lunar abyssite and my Kannagi; enough to warrant me almost never needing to use C&D or SS (I say almost because Tunga is a pain in the ass to land hits on, as is Indrik, but I forget which one has attack and which has accuracy).

I eventually landed on Gnarled Horn for 2 reasons: the most obvious being the AGI modfier for Blade: Hi. The other being for the 20% crit rate that caps me on capped hit rate in conjunction with the 30% from RR. Apoc's instant cast is reason enough to use full time, while it is unpredictable, it has invariably saved my ass on several occasions. Always on reraise is nice because if I happen to screw up, I can Mijin and in a matter of seconds I can jump back into the fray and the only cost to MP (if that even matters) is the cost to put up haste, shell and protect back on me, which I can't do myself. And no mage can ever tell me that I should always carry my own reraise scroll/earring/hairpin, I do anyway, but its nice to not have to spend gil for those items.

The combination of those 3 atmas turns my equip setup into a flurry of Katanas much like hundred fists but faster because of the high % of double attack from /war, atheling, epona's, twilight belt, brutal. Tack on the reported 15% triple attack and my attack rate turns into what my LS mates have referred to as "seizuring". But really what really changed the way I approached NIN is the aftermath from Kannagi. I find myself building a level 3 aftermath and just riding the autoattack. ODD procs on crit damage are sweet, and for the most part, it looks almost like I have hundred fists and mighty strikes on.

[Auredant]

I think the norm is RR, GH and Apoc....but i've thrown in Mounted Champion, Sanguine Scyth, 2 -pdt atmas, etc. when the situation called for it.