Atma drop rate possible analysis/question

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Originally Posted by NyneAlexander

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.

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Good to know. Thanks for confirming!

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Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter

Idk but I'm starting to get frustrated in outer la noscea where almost every fate in u'ghamaro mines is a boss fate. Been there for several hours with no drop.

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I'm not currently farming atmas, just joinning a FATE in case I run into one. I got Atma of the Lion from bombs FATE near 789th Order camp. RNG is RNG, I guess.

I highly doubt there's some secret the devs are hiding as to the mechanics of the drops. This isn't FFXI, where you're told nothing and are expected to be okay with that.

Has anyone seen more than one person get an atma from completing a fate? My thinking is that there is a certain percent chance it will drop after the fate is completed then only awards it to 1 person who completed. If that's the case then your odds drop drastically in prime time when there a 100 people doing a fate as opposed to middle of the night early morning when there may only be a handful of players to compete with. Maybe the people who got real lucky were doing it when there were less people.

Yoshi made a statement about the drop rate: http://youtu.be/IAISUDbjXj0

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Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter

Has anyone seen more than one person get an atma from completing a fate? My thinking is that there is a certain percent chance it will drop after the fate is completed then only awards it to 1 person who completed. If that's the case then your odds drop drastically in prime time when there a 100 people doing a fate as opposed to middle of the night early morning when there may only be a handful of players to compete with. Maybe the people who got real lucky were doing it when there were less people.

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I've completed entire FATEs by myself and not once did they drop an atma.

To answer the question, yes, I've seen multiple people get an atma from a single FATE.

I got almost all my Atma's from killing adds FATEs, and I got all 12.

It's just pure luck.Someone in my FC dropped all of them in just 1 day.Someone in one of my atma farming grouped did drop only 2 in 2 days.
I consider myself lucky since i got all of them in 4 days(5hours/day farming)

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Originally Posted by Kule

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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Probably just coincidence, because some people have gained the same Atma crystal multiple times in the same area within one hour, and others from other zones shortly after.

I'm pretty sure by now that it's a flat percentile chance on every FATE, for instance 5%. If you're unlucky, you can do FATEs for 20 hours straight and the RNG never rolls 95 or higher for you, so you never get any. While someone else just gets lucky rolls with the RNG and gets a lot quickly. I'm just making these numbers up, but a 1 in 10 or 1 in 20 chance of any FATE giving you an Atma crystal might account for the luck (or bad luck) people are getting with this system.

you do realize that there is no such thing as a RNG as u cant program a computer to be random