ATMA Animus

I'm a casual player and I love FF14, I've played since its v1.0 CE release. I have a full time job and a wife so I realistically only get 3 maybe max 4 hours on occasion to play at a time. But ATMA-Animus is a hard pill to swallow for a player like me. ATMA made me post in frustration a few times on this forum and now I feel like I wish I could go back to farming ATMA.

I'm someone who loves to pay SE. If the game were $50.00 or more a month I would still pay because I love it, and its what I'd like to spend my little free time doing. To get off work and farm myth/solid and interact with real people, or anything that shows my progress in-game is the perfect recipe for my happiness. Weather its farming mats for crafting or lv-ing an ALT. I also love the idea of upgrading a single weapon on a long -term period of time.

When I started the ATMA grind I thought "Up until this point my game time has meant something, but now I'm randomly doing FATES hoping an ATMA will drop". It took me a lil over 650 FATES to complete, but every time I had a play session I was lving my chocobo so I felt like I was progressing a lil bit in an odd way. I feel now that if an ATMA would drop every 100 fates it would be a better solution for SE. People would play the game longer and SE would make more money. Meanwhile players would feel like their getting closer to their goal of obtaining an ATMA weapon. Also it would be fair and every player would spend the same amount of time on the quest so ATMA weapons would be the same time investment roughly for everyone.

Now I'm on to the books. I've done everything but the FATES on my first book, and now its the fourth day in a row I'm waiting for "The Taste of Fear" in The Coerthas Centeral Highlands FATE to pop. I'm only able to play between 1-4 AM west coast time. SE why do you want me to log in and just wait and not play your game? I only want to play your game and pay you. I just want some feeling of progression but now I log in and just wait. Has anyone else run into this problem?

I refuse to give up on upgrading my ATMA weapon but I just find it odd that this game requires not only my time but also i need be be logged in specific times when a certain FATE pops. I know this is just a rant thread, but does anyone relate to the randomness of how ATMA-Animus works.

Would you rather it be a specific amount of fates to complete "even if abnormally high" just so you know where your time was going?

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It's why they made it optional. I think doing Levi for the mirror fits your description: use your time for an upgrade even if it takes ages.

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Some players wanted something to camp

But I hope SE increase the FATE book spawntimes with 2.28 or 2.3

If you really like to spend so much money on the game, then buy a PS4 and a PS Vita. Then you can take your vita with you to work and wait for your FATEs at work too.

People were complaining that with df, there was no reason to leave the cities at all. SE listened to them.

Totally agree with you. I'm fortunate that I get to play quite often but those that can't, the casual player this form of progression is supposedly intended for, will not be getting their Animus any time soon.

The sheer Myth grind alone can take an incredibly long time, but at least there are varied ways of doing that. The biggest problem as OP alluded to, is the FATEs. The intentionally broken FATEs that will spawn once or twice a day such as The Taste of Fear in Coerthas or Taken in Southern Thanalan (I could name many more.) I didn't mind the Atma grind, because I could do other stuff while doing it. I could grind some FATEs in hope of my Atma dropping while queuing for a dungeon, or waiting in a PF group. But these specific book FATEs? You can't do a damn thing. You can't even craft. I waited 4 hours straight for Taken (alongside someone who been waiting there for 2 before I got there) By the time it spawned there were so many people waiting it was over in around a minute.

Doing FATEs for Atmas I don't mind. However sitting in one spot, not battling, not crafting, not gathering, not even able to queue up for a dungeon is just totally wrong.

To the people posting "it's optional" - everything in this game is optional. That's not a valid counter argument.

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Originally Posted by abzoluut

It's why they made it optional. I think doing Levi for the mirror fits your description: use your time for an upgrade even if it takes ages.

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Yes that is a real solution.... The OP barely has time to do anything, But send him out to get a Mirror lol GL on that with its crappy drop rate.


OP There are a few fates that do take forever to pop, I think the longest I waited was close to 3hrs. SE should have increased the book fates spawn times. Took me a week to finish Atma, And then it took me like 4 weeks to grind out the myth/books.