My two cents on the ATMA Issue

[Ilitsa]

I'm at around 50 hours with 2/12. It's... demoralising. Especially when a guy in the FC get 5 within 2 hours.

It really is, I'm still not going to cry and demand an increase in odds for them, but I'm at 40 hours now over the last 3 days, and -still- 0/12, it's starting to feel kind of soul-crushing now

[EvilHippie]

All weekend? I've been grinding since 2.2 release(I've done story and capped New tomes) But bessides that i've been grinding and grinding.
I've went FAR over 400 fates before i got my first drop. This is not hard nor easy to obtain, its RANDOM,

And yes i think its unfair some people get their 12 atma's within 12 hours and others struggle to get them within 60(do the math)
Like i've said a thousand times before, make it a challenge, make it hard. Let people fail and get up, the only thing they are now doing is handing us 3 dices and make us roll untill we hit 666.

re-read my previous statement and realize it took more than 12 hours.

[EvilHippie]

Well i finally got all 12 of them...

First drop was the hardest as it did not drop untill 35 hours... 10 minutes after that my 2nd dropped... the other 10 all took about 3-8 hours per piece.
Like the new look of my sword, can't wait to upgrade it further but yeah, needless to say i'm not gonna do this for my 2nd class as its boring as hell and it depends on luck way to much. 0% skill 100% luck.

Congrats to you. Didn't seem so bad now did it?

[brigannd]

You know, the dev team should be embarrassed when players start to think about all the fun they could be having NOT grinding for Atma's and playing other games.

[Ilitsa]

I finally got my first atma, at around 45ish hours, and a second one 4 hours later! I'm really glad I stuck to it and didn't give up

[Psyreal]

49 hours for 2 ATMAS ?! I hesitate between getting angry over the time sink and praising your dedication to this game !
The more I read about ATMAS the more I know it's not made for me, but if the majority of players is ok with it and find it fun so be it !

[Ilitsa]

49 hours for 2 ATMAS ?! I hesitate between getting angry over the time sink and praising your dedication to this game !
The more I read about ATMAS the more I know it's not made for me, but if the majority of players is ok with it and find it fun so be it !

Yeah, it was brutal, I almost quit several times but my fiance kept encouraging me on lol. I'm not so much OK with it, as much as I accept it, I feel there SHOULD be some sort of change (My fiance had the idea to give a slight increase in the drop chance in higher level FATEs, which I kind liked, something small, but it'd be something.) Only reason I'm doing it as is right now, is because I enjoy the dialogue and story around the Relic weapon, and I'm a sucker for lore of any kind.

[Psyreal]

Congratulations for your ATMA weapons anyway !

[Raestloz]

49 hours for 2 ATMAS ?! I hesitate between getting angry over the time sink and praising your dedication to this game !
The more I read about ATMAS the more I know it's not made for me, but if the majority of players is ok with it and find it fun so be it !

I think I can represent every single gamer out there that nobody finds atma grinding fun. It strips you of everything you have worked for (skills, gears) and replaces it with waiting, waiting and more waiting.

There are people that didn't have to work so hard because they're lucky. Some will be a dbag about it and brag that it's "not that bad"

I decided to vote with my wallet and play GW2 instead, now that I've transferred to more crowded server wvw beccomes infinitely more fun than low level fate grinding.

[Ilitsa]

I grinded fates in Upper La Noscea the entire day today (11am-1am) and have yet to get the atma from that map x-x