Ugh...why does atma hate me? And why does it suck?

Seriously, I just need S than and E shroud and have been working on those two for weeks. I literally do nothing but dang fates and expert daily...SE can ya throw us a bone and tweak this drop rate by a 2-3%?

I know SE may not have plans for this ATM, but could you consider it at least? Shoot maybe do weekend specials increased atma drop or something....anything?

It's because you are a Lala. They are concerned that if it dropped it may land on you and crush you. You should be thankful that they are looking out for your well being.

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Originally Posted by Synestr

It's because you are a Lala. They are concerned that if it dropped it may land on you and crush you. You should be thankful that they are looking out for your well being.

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That's so sweet! so if i use my fantasia potion i'll get more drops? haha

eggzackery!! ^.~

If Atma doesn't drop within the half an hour you have 2 options:
1) switch to another job that has Zenith weapon - try another half an hour
2) go to another region - try another half an hour
If none of 2 work stop wasting your time and do dungeons, crafting, gathering or something else. Try again after couple of hours again and should be instant drop.
This did work for me and I spent very little time and had fun while getting Atma.

Just don't waste time trying to get certain Atma for more than an hour total.

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Originally Posted by Adler

If Atma doesn't drop within the half an hour you have 2 options:
1) switch to another job that has Zenith weapon - try another half an hour
2) go to another region - try another half an hour
If none of 2 work stop wasting your time and do dungeons, crafting, gathering or something else. Try again after couple of hours again and should be instant drop.
This did work for me and I spent very little time and had fun while getting Atma.

Just don't waste time trying to get certain Atma for more than an hour total.

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Pretty much what I did. Doesn't drop within an hour? Find something else to do. :3

They are going to make it easier to get eventually, it's just not happening as soon as some people would like. The way I look at things now, is just do whatever is enjoyable. If the relic quest line is unfun or unfair then avoid it. They will keep adding powerful weapons that take less time to get in updates.

Definitely not in 2.4. Yoshi-P made a comment on how we all better start grinding our ATMA now for Ninja so....maybe not until 2.5 or the expansion.

I swear my game is broken or something. I've spent over 7 hours collectively across 4 zones trying to get a bloody atma and have nothing at all to show for it. Would it kill them to make the drops reasonable?

I favorite the Atherite and got 3 in a row for each area.

I devoted 5 hours a day for a month and 2 weeks I have a total of 3 atma , RNG blows for me I've been know to fail completely at mining at 90% or higher known to roll 1's repeatedly for loot RNG really sucks for me, so when I see the majority of players getting it in a few days and the only true thing slowing them down is the books , I quit doing them all together because for that time frame and only getting 3 I felt as if it was a impossible task for me to achieve. Also I've seen them get the alaxandrite very fast too , so why such a wall with Atma's? I cannot understand how you would rely on RNG for such a task, I could see the later steps to get to the higher level relics taking much longer then this , So again I pose the question why did you rely on RNG for Atma's and yet the later tasks to upgrade so easy? , because myth is easy to farm there is no weekly cap and having friends to clear a instance is even easier.

This strategy has worked very well for me, in fact, I think there is more to the RNG then meets the eye.... Maybe I was just lucky, but I went a few weeks before I had even 3. Switching to this strategy resulted in the last nine of very, very casual player across 2 weeks.

1. Make a list of all your remaining zones
2. Do no more than 5-7 fates per zone
3. Move onto the next zone
4. Never repeat a zone until you've worked your way through your list
5. Once you get an atma, reset your list
6. Repeat steps 1-5

Note, I never ended up repeating a zone during each run until I was down to my last 2 zones. In that case, I ended up repeating Central and Western Than a few times. I had gotten 3 of my last 5 over the course of 4hrs and tried to get those last 2. I ended up going back and forth between the 2 zones many times before giving up altogether. I took a week off atma hunting. The very next week, I had my last two atma within 9 fates total.

Got my Atma Weapon a few days ago, and it was incredibly painful. 10/10 will never do again. It's nothing but frustration and boredom. I think the only thing I got out of it was I now know my way around Eorzea a bit better.

If that make you feel better then I still sometimes farm fates for seals with Zenith equipped and Atmas drop in +/- half an hour. All you need to do is switch to another Zenith or region if nothing drops soon.

South Than and East Shroud are great zones for the suggestion I have that worked for me - camp out at a FATE that spawns regularly - in East Shroud, I used that one with the boar deep in the Sylphlands (super easy to solo) and in South Than, the one for CT unlock in the Amal'jaa camp - they spawn super quick and I get one within 5 tries each time.

Or you could get a UAT weapon, say to hell with ATMA, and sell off some of your accumulated red lvl II materia at insanely high prices.