Atmas - Unfair for low level players

[SummonerSenah]

PS3 players can't tab target as quickly as PC users and if the Fate is crowded, enemies sometimes don't even render before they get killed. My girlfriend had trouble with pugilist when we were trying to do the Fates for the Dragonquest event. Now she refuses to do event Fates until the rush dies down a little. With the way ATMA is set up, this will continue to be an issue.

[Maikochan]

Not sure if this has already been suggested, but there's a simple solution: Make it so Atma drops only happen if you're not level sync'd. And of course fix the apparently low drop rates.

Also, the guildleves can only be done so many times until you have to wait for your allowances to replenish; the hunting log is only a one-shot source of XP; and Dungeons are only viable if you're in a group (which is not always possible for everyone). The challenge log is slightly more useful, but is still limited by weekly.

Seriously, my free 30 days ended the day before 2.2 hit. If I had known these FATE rushes would be happening, I never would have paid for a subscription.

[Akira_Tenshi]

A fair argument. I imagine it would be very annoying for low level players. It will get better though once the majority of players have completed the quest.

[Reinheart]

To all those farming Atma's - from what I did and saw (have Atma weapon now) and heard from other people as well.

You can get Atma with bronze, silver, gold. It doesn't matter which one you get, atma will drop.

For FATE grinding part of atma, just kill few mobs, boss/NM fates, just hit the boss for maybe 5%-10% ish and just leave the fate to another fate.
It's better for you since you can grind other fates that may be up in the area at the same time gives low level players that are leveling through FATE's a chance to get silver/gold. It's more work for them to kill mobs or hit the bosses with higher HP but this keeps both sides happy imo.

I just leave right after few kills instead of staying for the full fate and still got atma drops.

[MorbidAngel]

To all those farming Atma's - from what I did and saw (have Atma weapon now) and heard from other people as well.

You can get Atma with bronze, silver, gold. It doesn't matter which one you get, atma will drop.

For FATE grinding part of atma, just kill few mobs, boss/NM fates, just hit the boss for maybe 5%-10% ish and just leave the fate to another fate.
It's better for you since you can grind other fates that may be up in the area at the same time gives low level players that are leveling through FATE's a chance to get silver/gold. It's more work for them to kill mobs or hit the bosses with higher HP but this keeps both sides happy imo.

I just leave right after few kills instead of staying for the full fate and still got atma drops.

This is what I do. It's much more efficient in the long run...except when everyone else does the same thing..lol

[Reinheart]

This is what I do. It's much more efficient in the long run...except when everyone else does the same thing..lol

Not sure if the FATE needs to be completed, I got gold even when the FATE failed but didn't get any atma during this time so can't confirm if Atma's drop even with failed FATE. Journal (JP client) just shows to participate in FATE so guessing doesn't really matter.

Only ones I stay till the end are the ones that links with the next FATE event. (take off sync and watch other players, if it looks like not enough people then I put sync back on to help. Onlyl happens around 3am my time, rest of the hours there are tons of ppl still farming atmas lol)

[Astralos]

Yeah, I can see how this is bad for non-Atma grinders. It's like swarms of locusts quickly devouring everything they see.

[eagledorf]

It's really a terrible idea to tie Atma up in FATEs. Not only does a swarm of lvl 50 people largely naked except for their relic and chocobos come and clear the FATE before you can even hit anything, the new FATE scaling means that some fate mobs are quite hard to kill even for that swarm. I can't imagine what it'd be like for a small group of new players trying to clear one of these fates by themselves.

Honestly, FATEs were one of my favorite features in level 1-30. I would be wandering around questing or doing my hunting log and a FATE would pop and a small group of low level folks would kill rats or something together. Making FATE grinding a thing makes them really horrible and unpleasant for everybody involved. I hated it before 2.0 and I hate it now.

[Gemma]

Not sure if the FATE needs to be completed

Well I was in Middle La Noscea and I did a low lvl FATE there, no one else was there. I killed a few of the mobs but then had a brain fart and thought that zone didn't drop an atma lol. So I started running towards the entrance to another zone without completing the FATE, stopped to look at my journal & then it said FATE Complete and I got the atma of the ram, lol.

So idk how it got complete cause there was no one there (maybe the npc's?) but yea you can get an atma just by killing a few then going to another fate without hogging everything from ppl actually trying to level or get seals for GC rank ups.

[Dhex]

Not sure if this has already been suggested, but there's a simple solution: Make it so Atma drops only happen if you're not level sync'd. And of course fix the apparently low drop rates.

Did you just derp a little too hard there?


Or did you not realize that a majority of the FATE(s) in the zones that have Atma are far below level 50 and make sync pretty much a requirement for... almost all of them?

(Or were you trolling? If so carry on!)