Atma drop rate possible analysis/question

In 3 days I've gotten 2 Atmas ; ;. Thursday/Friday I did about 20hrs total around 230 fates and I got one. Saturday I did around 100 fates and didn't get anything. Yesterday I logged in and the second fate I did dropped one. I did around another 100 or so fates and didn't see anything else.

They should have made it where we had to do 75-100 Fates per zone for one drop. This Could take months. What sucks the most we can't even Buy the books until we complete this part, So that could be a few more months right there (depending on ones play times).

But that would be a good idea. We can't have those. They should have at least used a pseudo-random distribution but, given the frequency of horirble drop testimonies, they didn't even do that :/

I have a feeling atma has a drop allowance as a lot of people seem to get atma within the first few fate in an area or end up grinding for hours and get nothing.

I'm at 3/12 atma now and all 3 came from NM fates and also within 5-20mins of entering that area. I've also spent hours in a single area and got nothing for it.
The strat i'm using now is to spend 30mins in an area and if nothing drops i change area. I'll see how it goes.

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Originally Posted by Kule

The strat i'm using now is to spend 30mins in an area and if nothing drops i change area. I'll see how it goes.

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Yeah, I do this kind of thing, too. Kind of a strategy people use for slot machines in casinos, right? If you don't get your payout, go somewhere else and come back later. If nothing else, at least you get a change of scenery.

I heard a couple things people were claiming in game, too. They claim that a.) you don't need to get gold in a FATE to have a chance for atma to drop, and b.) someone claims that they ran out of the range of the FATE before it was completed to head to another one (deactivating their level sync) and when the FATE ended they got an error saying they couldn't get the item because their level was too high.

I don't know if either of those are true. I tend to think they aren't.

Why are all ur names saying Naoki yoshida? :)

Woah my name is yoshida.....did I miss something? Lol hehe :D

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Originally Posted by Little_Aussie_Mhigo

Woah my name is yoshida.....did I miss something? Lol hehe :D

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Think about what day it is, and remember that Japan is one day ahead of us.

Just thought I'd do an update.. spent 50mins in central thanalan and got nothing, went to western thanalan and got atma on the 3rd fate so I'd highly recommend not grinding for too long in a single zone.

I've noticed no pattern in the 7 atma I've gotten so far. I've got two of the same and each came from a different fate in the zone.

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

I heard a couple things people were claiming in game, too. They claim that a.) you don't need to get gold in a FATE to have a chance for atma to drop, and b.) someone claims that they ran out of the range of the FATE before it was completed to head to another one (deactivating their level sync) and when the FATE ended they got an error saying they couldn't get the item because their level was too high.

I don't know if either of those are true. I tend to think they aren't.

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I can personally confirm that you do not have to be in range of the fate to receive the atma. One of the three I have so far (it was in morbol drydocks in la noscea) I got by taking a fate to 80% and then running to another fate to start that one.