Yoshi-P: Atma drop % = "it's just luck"

Has anyone done a poll of sorts on how many people got their animus? I'm quite curious about how many people are still not done with the atma grind

We currently have ~7 / 68 full atmas in my guild, with the majority averaging at 6/12.

Of those with full atmas, 2 Got theirs in under a day, and 3 within 3 days.

Just to play the devils advocate here. While he said that it's just luck, he did not say that there is no reason to increase it.

After all, 2%, 10% and 20% all need luck to get. ;)

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Originally Posted by Duuude007

The challenge is patience.

Some find it too difficult.

Many do not.

I can accept this.

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It's neither a challenge nor is it difficult to hop on a wheel like a hamster and peddle mindlessly if your brain is wired to do boring, repetitive, zero-skill tasks ad infinitum.

The truth of the atma quest is it was meant to be a reward for casual players but in true S-E style its implementation is hidden behind an insulting blatant content-prolonging timesink that only the hardcore crowd (read hardcore as jobless/employed but socially bereft/students) or the lucky few have benefited from.

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Originally Posted by Grizzlebeard

The truth of the atma quest is it was meant to be a reward for casual players

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Fun part is this RNG makes it harder for them than hardcore players. If a casual player can play 2-3 hours each day he should waste all his time doing FATEs? even if he just does 5-10 fates daily, he's gonna spend waaaaaay more time than a hardcore player, even having luck.

Right now i work, but when i was at collegue, i could play only 3-4 hours ON WEEKENDS. From that 3-4 hours, you'd have to "waste" 30-60-90 minutes with a daily roulette/tribe quest if you want to have myth/sold tomestones.... should i waste the few minutes i have left doing fates? if this game were "born" 2 years ago i'd be unable to do any content because i'd waste a lot ot time doing my "routinal quests".

Now i can play all days, so i'm not "casual" anymore... and only NOW i have enough time to do something more than "routinal quest". This game is not casual friendly, which it was supposed to be...

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Originally Posted by Merle

Fun part is this RNG makes it harder for them than hardcore players. If a casual player can play 2-3 hours each day he should waste all his time doing FATEs? even if he just does 5-10 fates daily, he's gonna spend waaaaaay more time than a hardcore player, even having luck.

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Exactly. The system that was designed for the casual playerbase couldn't be anymore anti-casual.

Guess you guys never experienced Dynamis and the several sets of BST gear that dropped.

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Originally Posted by Spyrit

Guess you guys never experienced Dynamis and the several sets of BST gear that dropped.

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That's because Dynamis wasn't Casual content. Look to something like Trial of the Magians for an equivalent and you'll see how more casual-friendly that was compared to this rubbish.

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Originally Posted by Gextiv

It really is luck.

On my first attempt to get an ATMA in Western Thanalan, I got my ATMA..

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Funny enough, that's basically how it started for me. Accepted the quest, sat on my chocobo in North Shroud looking at Fates pop, cycling through. I kept expecting a Fate with the name of the Atma, or something on it, while looking for any info available at the time (mind you this is a few hours after 2.2 went live so there wasn't a lot of info yet available). Then someone said it was just FATEs that were already in game. Oh, well ok, so I went to the first FATE nearest me..Atma of the Archer. Oh, well that was easy, this doesnt seem so bad. So I logged off, went to bed, came back the next day, started farming in the next area.....and continued to farm for several, several hours. Maybe I should've kept going when I got the first one lol

I did end up completing it, after a week or so, cant even begin to say how many hours worth. I know I did over a thousand FATEs though, because the only other time I did FATEs was for leveling Arcanist and most of that was storyline exp and dungeon runs anyways. Fun times, fun times..

So i tried my luck and literally got all 12 pieces in about 20-24 hours or so.
The first 10 hours or so i managed to grind till my eyes were like " wtf where am i, oh yea..... IM DOING FATES SPAMMING STONE AND AERO LOL" .
I managed to get 8 pieces in tht 10 hours.
The next day i logged on to get my last 4 pieces.
I played for like 12 hours straight and finally got all 4 drops, the 3 atmas before the atma of the crab were fast to get..... But the atma of the crab took like the remaining 7 hours.
When i finall got the atma of the crab from the fate that had a giant crab in it. I was like
.-_-. Wtfffffffffffffffff coincedence?
Never again will i grind this hard, it made me feel terrible and i don't think others should have to experience this.