Yoshi-P: Atma drop % = "it's just luck"

[AiChyan]

Has anyone done a poll of sorts on how many people got their animus? I'm quite curious about how many people are still not done with the atma grind

[Tinker]

We currently have ~7 / 68 full atmas in my guild, with the majority averaging at 6/12.

Of those with full atmas, 2 Got theirs in under a day, and 3 within 3 days.

[Amberion]

Just to play the devils advocate here. While he said that it's just luck, he did not say that there is no reason to increase it.

After all, 2%, 10% and 20% all need luck to get.

[Grizzlebeard]

The challenge is patience.

Some find it too difficult.

Many do not.

I can accept this.

It's neither a challenge nor is it difficult to hop on a wheel like a hamster and peddle mindlessly if your brain is wired to do boring, repetitive, zero-skill tasks ad infinitum.

The truth of the atma quest is it was meant to be a reward for casual players but in true S-E style its implementation is hidden behind an insulting blatant content-prolonging timesink that only the hardcore crowd (read hardcore as jobless/employed but socially bereft/students) or the lucky few have benefited from.

[Merle]

The truth of the atma quest is it was meant to be a reward for casual players

Fun part is this RNG makes it harder for them than hardcore players. If a casual player can play 2-3 hours each day he should waste all his time doing FATEs? even if he just does 5-10 fates daily, he's gonna spend waaaaaay more time than a hardcore player, even having luck.

Right now i work, but when i was at collegue, i could play only 3-4 hours ON WEEKENDS. From that 3-4 hours, you'd have to "waste" 30-60-90 minutes with a daily roulette/tribe quest if you want to have myth/sold tomestones.... should i waste the few minutes i have left doing fates? if this game were "born" 2 years ago i'd be unable to do any content because i'd waste a lot ot time doing my "routinal quests".

Now i can play all days, so i'm not "casual" anymore... and only NOW i have enough time to do something more than "routinal quest". This game is not casual friendly, which it was supposed to be...

[Grizzlebeard]

Fun part is this RNG makes it harder for them than hardcore players. If a casual player can play 2-3 hours each day he should waste all his time doing FATEs? even if he just does 5-10 fates daily, he's gonna spend waaaaaay more time than a hardcore player, even having luck.

Exactly. The system that was designed for the casual playerbase couldn't be anymore anti-casual.

[Spyrit]

Guess you guys never experienced Dynamis and the several sets of BST gear that dropped.

[Grizzlebeard]

Guess you guys never experienced Dynamis and the several sets of BST gear that dropped.

That's because Dynamis wasn't Casual content. Look to something like Trial of the Magians for an equivalent and you'll see how more casual-friendly that was compared to this rubbish.

[Akujin]

It really is luck.

On my first attempt to get an ATMA in Western Thanalan, I got my ATMA..

Funny enough, that's basically how it started for me. Accepted the quest, sat on my chocobo in North Shroud looking at Fates pop, cycling through. I kept expecting a Fate with the name of the Atma, or something on it, while looking for any info available at the time (mind you this is a few hours after 2.2 went live so there wasn't a lot of info yet available). Then someone said it was just FATEs that were already in game. Oh, well ok, so I went to the first FATE nearest me..Atma of the Archer. Oh, well that was easy, this doesnt seem so bad. So I logged off, went to bed, came back the next day, started farming in the next area.....and continued to farm for several, several hours. Maybe I should've kept going when I got the first one lol

I did end up completing it, after a week or so, cant even begin to say how many hours worth. I know I did over a thousand FATEs though, because the only other time I did FATEs was for leveling Arcanist and most of that was storyline exp and dungeon runs anyways. Fun times, fun times..

[Yumi_umi]

So i tried my luck and literally got all 12 pieces in about 20-24 hours or so.
The first 10 hours or so i managed to grind till my eyes were like " wtf where am i, oh yea..... IM DOING FATES SPAMMING STONE AND AERO LOL" .
I managed to get 8 pieces in tht 10 hours.
The next day i logged on to get my last 4 pieces.
I played for like 12 hours straight and finally got all 4 drops, the 3 atmas before the atma of the crab were fast to get..... But the atma of the crab took like the remaining 7 hours.
When i finall got the atma of the crab from the fate that had a giant crab in it. I was like
.-_-. Wtfffffffffffffffff coincedence?
Never again will i grind this hard, it made me feel terrible and i don't think others should have to experience this.