What Atma gave you the most trouble?

In the past 6 weeks I've played only once, for about an hour. And it's all Atma's fault. I hate every single one, and hope they all die a slow death in a fire.

East Shroud. Screw that place so hard. 137 FATES for my WAR atma, 150+ for my PLD atma.

Outer - was there for 3 whole days

Archer, Crab, and whichever one is near Highbridge, I forget. Those three took me 3 to 5 DAYS a piece.

Southern thanalan was my nightmare one, took days to farm (was last one) and the fate layouts are awful due to it being two zones in one.

Southern Thanalan.

Spent 3 determined days there, many hours wasted before I gave up for awhile. The next time I came back I got it within 5 minutes.

North Shroud, 11 hours and counting

It was either Virgo or Caprcorn for me. Each took days to get the 1st time 'round

the stupid Maiden in Central Shroud.

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Originally Posted by Cyrus-Wallace

The Atma of the Crab. It took me like 6 hours. Then, randomly doing the beastribe quests, I got another one. Damn Atma.

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This happened to me too, only with Scorpion.

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Originally Posted by Brine_Gildchaff

This happened to me too, only with Scorpion.

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ditto. Thouht it inspired me to get a 2nd set and started off a lucky streak that allowed me to complete my first

Ram. Took me 2 grueling hours.

Southern Thanalan ; The Scorpion.

Not sure how long as I was rotating between zones but at a guess maybe 100 fates or so?

I have been farming Atmas since they were released, and I've yet to get all 12. I have 6 so far, I farm around 3-5 hours a day, so at this point, my faith, hope and patients is gone, but yet, I keep farming away thinking the next FATE will be my lucky FATE. I swear, if I could, I would literally slap the face of whomever came up with the idea of making Atmas RNG. SHAME ON YOU!

I spent the longest out in Sahagin land trying to get that atma. I probably spent 8 hours out there.

Archer for sure. The only other ATMA that gave me trouble was Lion in Eastern Thanalan. The rest dropped really fast.

East Shroud took me a combined total of 27 hours over the course of a week. The final session was 7 hours because I was so determined to get it.

North shroud, low la and southern than took me the longest. Although I got all 12 over a weekend so can't complain.

SCH Atma: Outer La Noscea: 9h +
NIN Atma: Central Shroud: 4h51m

Fish; LLN
Hundreds of FATEs, took over 2 weeks at a few to a handful of hours per day in that one zone. My friends, who were kind enough to hang out with me when they could, received multiples. One even got 5 Fish atma well before I got my drop and had to change classes just to keep from getting any more.

I spent 5 days in East Shroud. I farmed fates about 4-5 hours a day for 2 weeks to get all my atma. The Goat took a third of that time. I hate East Shroud.

1st set I spent 24 hrs in Horizon, and 8 in drybone. Everything else went REALLY fast. 2nd set, I spent a week in Sapsa trying to get Crabby atma...

Lowe La Noscea D:<

I started farming it the first day (switched zones every 1/2 hour for variety, but only doing about 4 zones at a time). 3 weeks later it was the last zone I had left. The worst is how my inventory would fill up and I would panic every time I did the Dodo fate.

I now cringe when I have to go there for hunts.

Atma of the bull and Atma of the Archer are not dropping for me. Three weeks of farming about 20hrs a week. Only two I need.

Okay I'm gonna tell a story here. When I started out with the Atma grind, my fist Atma was the Atma of the Bull. I don't know how I got it (Though I think seal grinding might have something to do with that). I sine gotten the Scorpion next, then worked on the maiden and Goat ones (accidentally getting the Lion while doing Kobold quests) gotten another Scorpion doing Amall'ja quests, so on and so forth until I finish with La Noscea and ironicly enought the last atma of my first set was the Ram (astrologically speaking, Aries comes before Taurus)

With my second set I decided to take it on a regonal basis stating with La Noscea, then the Black Shroud and finally Thanalan to bookend how the second set started. When I realized that after getting the Twins I had the Bull and the Scales left so I decied that for more bookending, wet for the Scales first meaning that my last atma for the second set (and thus for awhile until I get Thyrus) was the first atma for my first set.

How does this relate to this thread you ask? Well becuase at this point the Bull is the "That One Atma" of the second set. I grinded for the thing for most of the day and I still don't have it! But I haven't given up yet. I will tame that bull and use it's power for my Star Rod. I will have my cake and eat it too! This begam with the Bull and thush shall end with the Bull! (evil laughter)

The first time around, the two that had given me the most trouble were Atma of the Scorpion (Southern Thanalan) and Atma of the Water-Bearer (Upper La Noscea). =/

I'm unsure of how many FATES I had done (12 hours non-stop each) but when I obtained these final two (Water-Bearer being the last), safe to say I was bubbling with joy at an inappropriate time (midnight). =3

I recently began the second set of Atmas because while searching for Elite Marks, certain FATES were there and I was bored. =P

It's funny because the two that had given me the most trouble I found in 3-4 FATES. I've accumulated 4 Atmas like this. \^.^/

Funny how RNG works. It knows when you want something so it doesn't give it to you. xD

The atma that took me the longest I swear was Eastern Thanalan. I don't even know how many times I did those Attack on Highbridge fates.

East Shroud was by far the longest for me. I knew every FATE by name before that was over (man was I excited to see Enmity of my Enemy on my first -- I think-- animus book...). Second place went to Lower La Noscea. I think ES was like 30 hours (hard to say because I did FATES with beast tribe quests) and LLN was like 15 hours of pure FATE farming. As it happens, I got Western La Noscea while doing the main scenario quests just after the whole atma system was released (not even trying) and then got another one later while doing beast tribe quests.

None.

I got 3 in my retainer and for paladin it took me 2 days to get them all.

For my dragoon I got them in 3 days. I follow my own thing I wrote on paper.

Though if I have to pick a place that took me the longest by hours.

outer la noscea for paladin.

middle la noscea for dragoon

The north shroud one, I swear I accrued 400 fates for that! Possibly more!

The lion

10 hours of straight play

I may have headbutt a brick afterwards

west Than so far... But I only have 6 after 3 months and over 600 fates. Whoever thought up the rules for atma should be shot

The goat...Curse you Goat!!!! >:(

Atma of the Goat was by far my worst one.

Working on 2nd set of atma and both times it has been Outer La Noscea that gave me trouble.

Bull... Nonstop farming for one week and it just refused to drop.

Atma of the Crab. I was farming for that one for days.

Lion. I have 6/12. But Lion is a jerkface.

Bull, that was terrible. I spend 2 weeks farming Eastern Thanalan for it, to the point where I'm certain I've seen every fate that pops there at least 5 times.

Between all of the Atmas I've gotten (I have an Animus and 3 Atma weapons), it varied. Sometimes I'd get on quick that took forever before, i.e.: Scorpion took me hours once and pan other time I got it randomly while killing a FATE for a daily hunt. The ones I remember having taken time... Maiden, Bull, Scorpion, Fish. Larger areas seem to take longer, mostly since the FATEs are more spread out.