Atma Rate more than Doubled in 2.4, Animus Books Cheaper

[Khiry]

Yes the Drop rate is now 2% which is indeed double of the previous 1% drops of the past.
Of course I jest and in all seriousness I am happy that this is being fixed as I personally saw no point in trying to farm for Atma anymore. (I got 4 pieces and till this day never saw another).

I understand why they tried to have the system the way it was, pace the players how rush to the end of the current content while they have a chance to make more content. This is why I think the current structure of the Relic/Zodiac weapon quest is the way it is and my get overhauled as a whole in the expansion.

[saber_alter]

thank. god.

now time to sit and wait for...what is hopefully a little more than a week until i can be bothered to finish up curtana and start on something else.

[Exstal]

You're a bit scary, lady ( or dude.. ).

Dude, but at least I'll work on Novus for my other jobs.

[Radacci]

Atma Rate more than Doubled in 2.4, Animus Books Cheaper

so instead of 1% drop rate, it's now over 2%? wieee.
i expected the drop in book prices though, same thing happened with zenith, when they removed phil tomes.

[Gextiv]

They will find something new to whine about soon, just watch it. Because they won't be able to afford the materia, or maybe it will be some new grindy step.

Yeah, I look forward to a certain persons future installments on Animus changes.


But what do they mean by double? Is it really that significant an increase, I wonder...

[Musashidon]

don't forget it's not just the books. anything that costs myth will have the conversion ratio to soldiery so everything will be cheaper.

[Eggnook24]

RNG is still RNG.

[Tsukino]

I think people are jumping the gun a little bit on the books being "cheaper." All they said was that they will cost soldiery instead, and that they will cost less soldiery than they cost mythology.

What they did not confirm is that you will be able to get the amount of soldiery that they do cost any faster than you can currently get 1500 mythology. Not to mention that people will still want soldiery to gear up their alternate jobs and buy alexandrite, making the economy for those different than mythology currently is.

[MasamuneBranford]

Will this increased atma rate also apply to Alexandrite? If I can farm an Alexandrite in an hour of atma farming (would seem reasonable) - this sounds pretty good to combo with dailies for novus.

[MasamuneBranford]

Given that FFXIV uses a true RNG system it is entirely possible for someone to do 1000 fates with a 1% drop chance and still never see even 1 atma. It's unlikely but it IS possible. For you to call people lazy when they may have cleared 10x more fates than you ever did and just got unlucky makes you look incredibly moronic.

Obviously nobody knows - but I'd say the previous rate was more likely than not 5%. I'd say if you're consistently moving - you probably can knock out 10 fates per hour (6 minutes per fate - also need to factor in waiting on fates to spawn when they are all knocked out). Majority of people (not the unlucky) seem to say the Atma phase takes roughly 25 hours. That would equate to a roughly 5% drop rate.

1% drop rate would mean 1200 fates in a perfect probability world (roughly 120 hours worth of fate grinding). 5% sounds more likely.