Quote Originally Posted by Adler View Post
The way Atma work for me:
- join region you need an Atma from and do Fates for 20 min
- if there is no Atma then switch to another job and try another 20 min
- if there is still no Atma go do some dungeons.
ATMA are not bound to job, you might collect multiples in an area within minutes of each other, or you might not.

i say 30 minutes a zone, with a few near by easily accessible fates, and if nothing, move on to another.

You BOTH do the same amount of time, but your friend does 10 fates in that hour while you only do 5. Your friend gets his atma faster than you, not because he's "better" at his job, or faced north for fire HQ, or had carby dancing while you scratched your butt, but because he inherently did more in the same amount of time. So instead of thinking of how much time you put into fates, count the fates they took you to get the atma.
This get repeated alot, but its wrong. RNG is RNG, the amount of fates done do jack all to increase the odds of getting an atma drop.

Solar flares and seismic events are more likely to affect RNG than 'determination'