Atma disappointment social help thread. For those with no luck.

[BreathlessTao]

What i am curious about...

if people say that they did farm "hours", what do they mean? Standing around waiting for 1 Fate? Or actually doing it non-stop and getting to every possible fate in the zone, within the mentioned Timeframe?

Well, from what I see (and did myself as well), trust me, when people say "farm for hours", they do mean going from one FATE to the other non-stop. Or, well, y'know, with reasonable stops, like bathroom breaks and eating and the like. But yeah, definitely not just standing around one FATE pop spot.

As for hours, I've no idea how much I've put in - I just got my first atma weapon yesterday. The number of FATEs done is easier to track with the FATE-related battle achievements - for whoever's not aware of this. And yes, it does get literally mind-numbing. If you're braindead by the time you get your atma recolor and can't even be happy for it... I don't think anyone's gonna blame you.

[Kyuuen]

I have my first atma weapon. And to get the twelve atma needed it took me a total of five days, from one Sunday till the near end of the Thursday of the same week, and only took me between 200 - 400 fates. I only have a total of 793 Fates done and a good portion of them were from leveling before the roulette's were implemented.

They're there, you just have to keep your nose on that grinding wheel.

[Morzy]

FATEs are not that bad. It's not like RNG is new to Final Fantasy. Sure, they can get boring.. but that's about it.

Farming generally isn't meant to be fun. It wasn't fun in Final Fantasy XII, it wasn't fun in X, it wasn't fun in VII, it wasn't fun in Dirge of Cerberus, either.



EDIT: And in my opinion, the 9X1500 Mythology is worse. Atma took me 5 days and the 9 books took me 13.

[Ferth]

I don't want them to increase the drop rate. I want them to change the entire mode of acquiry. The first part of this quest is straight up insulting with how little effort and thought they put into it. Rather than increasing the drop rate which sends the message that this sort of half assed content is ok, I want them to change this part of the quest entirely. Allowing Atma to drop from more than just fates or allowing people to grind Atma without needing to be on a level 50 class, or even relegating Atma to fates that actually made sense in the context of the quest and the lore behind it, though if they went that route a drop rate increase would be necessary. Hell, even making the damn things tradable would be better than the current system.

Even adding Atma as possible rewards from this new monster hunt system would be better than the terrible rng fate grind that this already is.

[Azurymber]

It took me over 1 week of doing fates 16-18 hours a day to get all my atma.
In the end I had watched a bunch of full seasons of tv shows

[Ikeda]

I think it took me somewhere between 4000-6000+ fates to get all 9 atma weapons. Not entirely sure since I had no way to track it after getting the 3000 achievement but I think I got the 3000 achievement around the time I had about half the weapons completed.

[Duuude007]

I think it took me somewhere between 4000-6000+ fates to get all 9 atma weapons. Not entirely sure since I had no way to track it after getting the 3000 achievement but I think I got the 3000 achievement around the time I had about half the weapons completed.

I know I hit 1000 fates achievement while farming my very first atma (first atma took like 40 fates to earn), and got my 65th about the same time I hit 3000. These numbers seem pretty close, averaged out.

[Gormogon]

i have horrible luck and this isn't the only MMO I've had RNG issues with. To be exact every MMO I've ever played has given me RNG issues the most. The only way to combat RNG for me is to spend the time and effort combating it. Sadly I don't have the capability to constantly farm something for over a month. Also a pain when it comes to group content because I can't solo farm it if I wanted to and take up other people's time having to deal with my RNG.

Just look forward to getting it done and over with and leave RNGeesus to it's cult of devotionists.

[Judge_Xero]

Did FATES while qued for my DF Roulettes. Better than standing around doing nothing IMO. Averaged 2 hours per ATMA. So probably 30 FATES per drop.
Occasionally Farmed without my Zenith on.(lmao)
Everyone seems to have that ONE atma that wont drop. Mine was the Maiden. If you don't get a drop in 2 hours, swap zones.
All in all it was nice to join random farm groups and chat to new people. Even joining FATE levelling groups was fun.

[Jim_Berry]

1/12 Atmas

Water-Bearer:
My first Atma. Got it from failing the Fate. This was on 4/8/14 (my off day from work).

Crab:
Started about 9am and gave up at about 8pm on 4/9/14 (my off day from work) taking 10-minute breaks in between. No drop.

Maiden:
Went to Central Shroud the next morning. Been trying since 4/10/14. Since my server is dead when I get home, I spend four hours after work Thursday through Monday with no drop. Today is 5/25/14, and I still rest on 1/12 Atmas. Each day for the past few weeks, I even try swapping jobs between BRD, WHM, PLD, WAR.

WAR scares me, since I glamoured my Bravura with the Moogle Axe from Thornmarch, so I hope this isn't preventing me from getting it as WAR.