*sigh* Almost feel like giving up on this game

[Coatl]

*With an army of people following them that instantly melted just about every single fate.

Sorry, if they want to emulate a real experience, they should try solo'ing a few boss fates =p That's the true hell of Atma. Not the 50+ people following them around to be on the livestream who instantly killed -everything- for them.

Well they did it in 14 hours. Even with fates taking x10 longer to finish, how much longer would it take someone who dedicated their time into atma farming to get all 12? Surely no more than a week, maybe two weeks if you dedicated your time earnestly into it.

[Shneibel]

I'm at 1,140 Fates so far, I had only done about 300 when I started doing it exclusively to get Atma, and so far I've only got two.

I tried to start doing Frontlines to raise my pvp rank, but it's impossible to cast, and I have a 71.43% 3rd place ratio in the Immortal Flames.

Accidentally forgot about the fact that if you greed roll win an item in Syrcus Tower it will lock you out of all loot for a week, so I took some useless caster item on my tank and missed out on my opportunity to roll for some boots I really could have used.

I think I need a hug

you need 3k fate for archivement so go for it

ps: I use to solo only dont know if that make big different BUT if you farm in one area (assume you farm it for 3-5h) and can get atma, switch to other area to farm and that area as the last atma

[Vaara]

Well they did it in 14 hours. Even with fates taking x10 longer to finish, how much longer would it take...

140 hours probably.

Unless you are literally spending 24/7 grinding, that's gonna take more than a week. Two weeks maybe if you were sleeping, eating and FATEing. That's assuming 10x is a reliable estimate.

[DenariusJay]

You should just take the "I'll get it when I get it" approach to ATMA and stop making it your focus content. Just do fates at random when traveling around and eventually you'll get there.

I think this an issue with just MMO gamers in general, we tend to go full retard and get OCD over a certain piece of gear or content in the game, and get frustrated when we make it our sole mission to get it. I know I been there many times, there comes a point where you just need to stop obsessing over it and let it rest.

Theirs better weapons out there anyways.

[Spetsnaz]

Unless somethings changed since the original drop of the Atma storyline you cant change weapons for the fates. So if you accepted the quest as your WHM you have to do it with your WHM zenith weapon to the end (all 12) before you can do it with other zeniths. Basically you'd have to do all the fates as a WHM with your zenith or else it doesnt count.

Yeah this is a load of crap... I got 2 with my PLD, 3 with WHM and 3 with BLM. it doesn't matter what class you use as long as you are holding a Zenith.

[Diana_Pepper]

My best advice to my friends and people in my linkshell that are attempting their Atmas is to switch areas every time 10-12 FATEs.

It helps because:
-it changes the scenery
-you aren't becoming more and more frustrated/annoyed/sadpanda not finding it in that area and asking "Why isn't dropping for me?"
-you "reset" your bad RNG by doing so (and what I mean by this is wishful thinking more than anything) :3

I have so far collected 3 sets of Atma and when I don't find an Atma after the 10-12 mark, I swap areas and I usually find one in a few FATEs. In my experience, if I keep grinding above 12, it feels like the bad RNG keeps accumulating more and more so switching areas reset it. (Again, wishful thinking) :P

[Linkschildhood]

That sucks cause I am on my second atma weapon. The second one took 5 days

[FriendlyUncle]

Yeah dood, it does blow. I switch it up every hour usually, check my retainer, port to a new zone. Helps stave off the suicidal thoughts for the most part. ATMA to me is just fluff crap they added to buy time to try and catch up with content releases and stuff. Hopefully this will get reduced because its quite time consuming. As a tank its not like I can just queue for a dungeon and farm while waiting. I either farming FATES or queuing for dungeons.

[Souljacker]

I think this an issue with just MMO gamers in general, we tend to go full retard and get OCD over a certain piece of gear or content in the game, and get frustrated when we make it our sole mission to get it. I know I been there many times, there comes a point where you just need to stop obsessing over it and let it rest.

At some point you are at a roadblock and there are no other pieces to work on. So your casual approach only works with casual players, not players actively trying to advance their characters. Many other people want to complete their relic weapons so that their contribution to their teams is greater.

I've been plugging away at atma for a combined total of 100 hours. It's been over the course of a couple months, some long sessions on weekends, sometimes just a couple hours a night. I've been rewarded with 10/12, and I hope to get the rest out this weekend.

And just this week, my friend starts his atma leg and is already 6/12, over the course of two days, and a total of 4 hours. I'm happy for my friend, but what a terrible system SE put in place for this. It's not even interesting or challenging. There's nothing fun about dominating a low level FATE because even synced my strength is several times that of a normal leveling character.

The whole thing should be revisited\reworked.

[Maero]

Oh trust me i feel your pain as rng is bad with me as well. Let's just say i got the 3, 000 fate achievement a few months ago.
Hope you don't leave the game however because of this


Ps actually that is false information about if you started the atma quest you have to do it with the class for the atma drops
as long as you have a Zenith weapon equipped it can be done as any class. Not sure if it was changed but this has always been the case.
Just to clear what someone posted up.
I have got atmas with blm, drg and Bard, Bard being the class i unlocked the quest as.