Something Needs to Change (Atma)

[Black91CRX]

It's not near as bad as people make it out to be. For every atma that took me hrs, I got the next within a few minutes.

[Axlle10]

It's not near as bad as people make it out to be. For every atma that took me hrs, I got the next within a few minutes.

but you see, there are some that go 10+ hours for EACH. some get lucky, some dont. thats the worst thing about choosing to go PURELY RNG on something like this. especially since it is only to get a new skin on the wep.

[Black91CRX]

but you see, there are some that go 10+ hours for EACH. some get lucky, some dont. thats the worst thing about choosing to go PURELY RNG on something like this. especially since it is only to get a new skin on the wep.

I still think it evens out in the end. My East Shroud atma took me 12+ hrs alone. Yeah, it sucked but the others were maybe 2hrs at worst (each). I highly doubt there are any people out there that are having to grind 12+ hrs PER atma.

[Axlle10]

I still think it evens out in the end. My East Shroud atma took me 12+ hrs alone. Yeah, it sucked but the others were maybe 2hrs at worst (each). I highly doubt there are any people out there that are having to grind 12+ hrs PER atma.

FC member of mine has been farming off an on since update for at least one hour per night. he is on 4 atma. total estimated time: 50 hours. Its actually very possible and very probable due to the nature of RNG. for every person that says oh i got it in 2 hours after 20 hours, there will be someone that is still stuck for 10+ hours to get each individual one. There is no way to prove or control the amount of time that it takes to get, therefor the "evening" out is impossible to predict and can not be used to argue the issue that atma drops are fine the way they are. SE should just realize they failed at making content that "will take a while" when they made the base step purely random. Random takes time for some, but for lots, its never going to get done until it gets changed to a progressive and somewhat controllable stage, which it should have been at the start.

They are doing great with the Animus and Novus stages as those actually achieve the goal of taking time and work for all players. Atma still is the worst thing they could have done, people cant even work towards getting the books/alexandrite until they have atma which means less people become interested in it due to the ridiculous rates set in place. It does not take any sort of work or time considering no one persons time/work can be set as a standard of what the upgrade should take.

I have already gotten my atma and i can attest that things really should change. I cant see how any one would willingly want to keep the drop rates insanely low as to block out players from getting to the next stages of a weapon that isnt even the best in the game. Its something that should take time, yes. But something that people have been working on since it was introduced while they have already released the next upgrade after deciding there was finally enough animus' to dictate the upgrade, is beyond stupid.

What really grinds my gears is that Yoshi stated he did not want everyones "hard work" to be "wasted" so they left it the way it was. What hard work is he exactly talking about? there is 0 hard work involved in atma farming. there is only the grind. thats it. People can try to sum it up as to "time = hard work", but the fact still remains others are "working harder" yet still not getting the same results as you did. hard work is an opinion, it can not be measured, and certainly can not be used as a reason to base such a ill-thought concept such as the ~1% atma drop rate.

[Bikkusu]

It's not near as bad as people make it out to be. For every atma that took me hrs, I got the next within a few minutes.

On the contrary; it's quite as bad as people make it out to be. I've been trying to get the Atma of the Bull from Eastern Thanalan for over a week now. I'm able to put in 3 hours at a time to try and get it. This is three consecutive hours each day. So we multiply that by 7 (actually 8 because it's Sunday again), and we have 24 hours worth of attempting to gather 1 component of a piece of gear. This is going to go on further because I still don't have the Atma of the Bull.

So while you are quite lucky to have gotten yours after a couple hours; I seem to be the antithesis of this.

Honestly it's quite ridiculous I should have to put in more time than a couple hours a day to get one component; especially seeing as I have multiple zenith weapons for which I could be getting these.