Quote Originally Posted by Ringabell View Post
Something isn't special when everyone has it.
Quote Originally Posted by Avarghaladion View Post
It isn't special if a drunk chimpanzee has the required "skill" to acquire it either.
Who said anything about skill? No, the skill-gated weapon is High Allagan.

The Atma gate is not skill. The gate is the grind that god awful RNG.

I'm not arguing for Atmas. I'm on record saying that farming for Atmas really sucked.

That said, Atmas are behaving exactly as they were intended to behave. You can break down each line of my post and respond with laser precision and well-worded arguments to the contrary, but it wasn't a huge mistake. It was planned. They knew that having an obscenely low drop rate that must be over come 12 times would gate the weapon from the masses.

They aren't stupid.

Neither are they looking at this thread shaking their collective head thinking: "We'd better raise the drop rate to 10% so everyone can get one."

No way.

Again: "ATMA FARMING SUCKS". That is my stance. It wasn't fun. I felt it basically ate into the time that I could've spent doing beneficial things like levelling another job or crafting. I even gave up on it for a while, got a Wave weapon and began farming for a Mirror. Atma sucks. But it also serves the purpose SE intended it to serve.