Quote Originally Posted by VeyaAkemi View Post
The way Demiatmas work is that they drop per zone, the Shark Attack Critical Engagement can only ever drop a Realgar Demiatma, and because of the way CEs are sorted, this makes Verdigris remarkably rarer than all other options, because not only it is covered by a single CE, the one CE that drops it is the rarest of them all, and actively requires players to spawn the thing by killing Inkstains, which a lot of players may not even realize they need to do.
This. I'm currently stuck at zero verdigris with the only other atma I'm missing being a single azurite, which I'm not feeling pressed on because it has three CEs I can get it from. Fates has this problem where people have no manners and instantly pull them, so even if I go the moment a fate spawns I will at most get one hit in because it's already dead at the seventeen minute mark, asking in /shout for people to wait more doesn't help much.

The only other way for me to get verdigris is to go to kozama'uka and while I need bicolor gems I usually avoid grinding for them in lower level zones because of the fate level sync.

So my options are to sit in the SW corner waiting for things to spawn while maybe grinding inkstains or go to kozama to grind fates and deal with the level sync... the former I'd like to avoid because while in OC i want to have fun or feel like I'm progressing and the latter will be a boring grind done all alone which for all I know has a lower drop rate than in OC but will be what I'll end up doing once I get that azurite regardless...

RNG is already a boring form of grinding, there is no challenge it's not hard or difficult it's just random, but because of this decision it's turned into a nightmare chore, almost like they don't want people to get this one atma inside of OC.