Looking for advice on ATMAs grind; what do you do?

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

I recommend going for atma of the Fish first. As I've stated in other threads, it's the worst place to have to farm as the distance of the map and distance between FATEs is so radical… ¬_¬

On another note; if I'm going for atma, I usually try to que into Coil as DPS while FATE spamming. If atma doesn't drop and Coil procs, at least I have the chance at getting some nifty Coil gear? But I usually don't give up until I actually get the atma or I'm just tired at that point. Which I then have to wake up to another day of SSDD.

[Natashio]

What did I do? I just did the Notorious Monster fates and skipped the others. The drop rate improved when I did those one.

[Kimbot]

I just finished my last 2 atmas this weekend. Joined a fate nearby after I finished a dungeon and got my atma of the bull. I wouldn't spend more than an hour in a zone, change it up do something else, craft, farm,myth, anything so at least you don't feel like time was wasted. Especially after how many hours and not having atma to show for it. gL on the grind!

[Babyfaced]

Thanks for the advice guys. I'll do what I can. I just feel like if I miss a fate, that fate was gonna give me an ATMA's.
It's a trap I tell you, it's all a trap!

[Ashkendor]

Honestly, I finished mine in about a week of casual farming. By 'casual farming' I mean that I still did my normal things like gathering and leveling. If a fate popped nearby, I'd change classes and go participate then go back to whatever I was doing before. The times that I DID outright farm it was because it was what I felt like doing. I got the difficult areas out of the way up front (Lower La Noscea, Central Thanalan, Central Shroud, East Shroud) so that it could only get better. If at any point I was frustrated or I felt like I didn't want to do it anymore, I'd stop and go do something else for awhile. Yeah the RNG thing is a trap. It's kind of like opening gacha boxes on F2P games: you always feel like the next one is gonna be the one that gives you the rare item.

[Yumi_umi]

Just farm for 10 hours + on a day you're free, honestly you'll feel like crap/ zombie but i'm 99.9% positive you'll get 1.
Follow the fate priority list.
Kill X amount of enemies > defending items/gathering items> beast tribes / boss fates > special boss fates ( it's not lupus etc )
Always do the low level fates and then the higher ones cuz it'll most likely be zerged down before u get there after thus making u miss an opurtunity.,
It's best to atma farm when ppl on your server is asleep( i.e
Admantoise has a lot of ppl offline past 1am )
So that'll allow you to go through almost every fate without having to worry about other fates being completed.

[RArchet]

What Yumi said, I've got 8/12, and am working on the La Nosca areas already and got the Lower one already; working on Central.

On a side note, I keep seeing people DEFEND this system, but I find it to be bad game design. Why? Because it's a game. Games are supposed to entertain you, and this isn't entertaining. They always argue that, "Hurrr, stop complaining and put on youtube/netflix/hulu/whatever and zone out", but that's NOT what you should be doing when playing a video game. Video games are made to entertain, not bore you!

[BreathlessTao]

Hang in there. Few hundred FATEs and you'll be braindead and just go through with it in zombie mode. And when you finally get your weapon recolor, you won't be able to be happy for it, the only thing you'll feel like doing is /shrug.

[SummonerSenah]

In zones that are really large or split into two areas, I just stayed in one part instead of trying to run all over. Even with chocobos it can be hard to reach all of them.

[Duuude007]

once youve been in a zone long enough you will know where the auto spawn fates are, which ones must be manually triggered, which ones have secondary fates that follow, and their general time spent solo or in groups to complete.

Based on this, you can predict pretty reliably where to go for ideal chance at full fate credit on more fates per hour as well as when to travel out of the way to get 2 or 3 before others re-pop.

Comes with practice.