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

[AmyNeudaiz]

I don't justify that, but I seriously doubt it was a "properly attempted" 400, as that seems far beyond even a realistic bell curve's extreme..

Complete Prequest: Check
Equip Zenith: Check
Do FATE: Check

Do you take me for an imbecile? I did farmed correctly. And no, I am not exaggerating. It's not even a far reaching assertion to complete this many before getting one either just because you haven't had it happen to you doesn't mean it's not possible.

[ShinkuTachi]

Complete Prequest: Check
Equip Zenith: Check
Do FATE: Check

Do you take me for an imbecile? I did farmed correctly. And no, I am not exaggerating. It's not even a far reaching assertion to complete this many before getting one either just because you haven't had it happen to you doesn't mean it's not possible.

I personally wouldn't call you a liar. Legitimately, the RNG gods may just not be working in your favor.

In my experience, on my server, almost all the people QQing about it are people who put no time into it. They just do a couple of fates, don't get an Atma, then pack up their toys and go home.

In my farming experience, the one in Southern Thanalan took over 8 hours and the one in Central Shroud took over 6 hours. The remainder took me anywhere from 30 min to 2 hours each. Total, I spent roughly 22~24 hours farming Atma.

[Niqote]

I got all 12 in 950 fates.
One of them (West La'Nocsea) took me 240ish fates to get... it was 18 hours+ orz
Another (Archer) took me 100ish fates to get it.

RNG is RNG but I got lots of exp for my Chocobo and lots and lots of seals and sometimes spirit binding.

[Luxx]

Yeah >.>; although I just farmed all the atmas as bard and upgraded my bard weapon last. Much easier than trying to farm as every job.

Lmfao. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...oo-easy-to-get.

Says you.
Meanwhile, there's many people who don't have time for this crap
and play Gamble with this game and people still have gotten little Atma's since the release of 2.2.

You should reword this, because everyone doesn't feel this way.

I bet if we gathered everyone from on forums and in-game I bet a the majority will vote to re-work FATE's.
FATE's are really overused system. They used it far too much in this game. I have no idea why.
Lack of idea's? I mean count things we had to do that was FATE related. So now I read that after your Atma
you're back to FATE's. This has to stop people lol.
It's f%&cking BORING. I'd do a FATE or two if I'm gathering but with skill cooldowns I just forget about it.
I dunno what to do because I play for fun. FATE's aren't fun, and I don't want Animus/Atma be why I get kicked out of crap.

[Andres_Lonegrief]

This is the most boring thing I've ever done on Eorzea. Well ... except DoH but I was able to fully ignore them without major issues.

I got my first atma (water bearer, it's very blue and nice) two days ago. I usually do fates while I'm waiting for my Titan party to be full and ready to wipe a couple of times.

1) Dying endlessly times at The Navels continues to seem more enjoying than running like chickens from a FATE to another with a dim hope of getting an atma;usually by the time I reach a FATE, this has just ended.

2)Should the pace stay like that, I should be able to get my animus (1st relic) maybe for the second expansion.

Please community, help me in finding the strength to not give up with this quest!

[ShinkuTachi]

I bet if we gathered everyone from on forums and in-game I bet a the majority will vote to re-work FATE's.
FATE's are really overused system. They used it far too much in this game. I have no idea why.
Lack of idea's? I mean count things we had to do that was FATE related. So now I read that after your Atma
you're back to FATE's. This has to stop people lol.
It's f%&cking BORING. I'd do a FATE or two if I'm gathering but with skill cooldowns I just forget about it.
I dunno what to do because I play for fun. FATE's aren't fun, and I don't want Animus/Atma be why I get kicked out of crap.

I understand that you personally may not like FATEs; however, to just assume that most or a majority of people feel the same way as you is arrogant. Finding a handful of people that agree with you on your server, in these forums, on reddit, tumblr, gamefaqs, 4chan, and etc. does not justify such a presumptuous claim.

[aerolol]

What?!

There are fates after atmas too?!!!!!?!

Awww... Man why. I wonder if the community reps have ever told the dev team that no-one actually likes fates.

I wonder that too...

Answering your question...

Yes... more FATEs after Atma stones.
And it only gets worse after you get your Atma Weapon.
For every book there are 3 very rare FATEs, some of which takes 4 hours to spawn.

If you are not camping at the FATE location, by the time you get there from the teleport aetheryte, the FATE usually is already gone, due to people camping who clear it in less than 1 minute.
So... you gotta camp for 4 more hours. For just this one rare, crappy FATE.

Fortunately I'm completing my 8th book, already did all 3 fates for this one, so that means just 3 more FATEs for me on the last book.
And then I will never ever again participate in any FATE in my life.


Hopefully they stop with this FATE crap for weapon upgrades or for anything important, because that was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in any game.

The whole FATE system is flawed, boring and pointless.
The biggest example of "cheap, quick and dirty" way to artificially pretend that new content has been added when in fact the only thing that is really new content are the icons for the stones and images for the books >_>

[Ahmbor]

Last 3hours 5 Atmas. Easy going...

[Nicobo]

...And it only gets worse after you get your Atma Weapon...

...then I will never ever again participate in any FATE in my life...

I don't agree it gets worse, I think everything including camping a FATE for 4hrs and farming 13500myth are all better than the FATE grinding.

I said i would never ever FATE again as well, however, animus is too beautiful...
I've started again for another weapon... maybe it was where it gets worse..^^;

[Luxx]

I understand that you personally may not like FATEs; however, to just assume that most or a majority of people feel the same way as you is arrogant. Finding a handful of people that agree with you on your server, in these forums, on reddit, tumblr, gamefaqs, 4chan, and etc. does not justify such a presumptuous claim.

Welp, I personally don't see more people liking the FATE system than disliking.
It was a fun run at the beginning but when
you press a system into a large part of the game, that's just called being lazy or lack of idea's to make things interesting.
Seriously, we can make a quick list on how many things that had FATE written all over it.
One sec, editing...

- Some seasonal events.
- 2.0 FATE'S were much easier to to level up for alts because dungeons has a low amount of exp, same with leves.
I never touch FATE's again thanks to the boost for alt leveling.
- Lightning Event.
- Unlocking CT required you to do 4 FATE's.
- This Atma crap, required.
- Books = FATE's.

I remember an old topic about it too: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...I-Realm-Reborn!
It's hard to believe people defend such a awfully boring system. I'm not even saying remove it, but do something else with it
and make Atma gaining more fun.
If some people like it now, they probably won't later after you realize you have to farm the hell out of them later on.

@DudeBismarck: A lot of things in this games are optional. Please tell me any other way to unlock CT.
I don't think there is none. So yes, in order to unlock CT. You HAVE to do FATE's.
We HAVE to do FATE's in order to progress your relic. There's no other way to do it. Soooo, yes.
You HAVE to do those too. .__. From the list I posted. [Not the link.] The only thing you can progress alternatively
is number 2. I won't lie I did Atma total 1hr and 30 mins and stopped since then. I don't have the stuff to continue
in some boring Choco race to a FATE while I busted my ass to be level 50 just to be dumb down to 5 again.

TLDR; FATE's suck lol.