Quote Originally Posted by Vid View Post
The problem with your above method is the fact you would need almost everyone currently doing the quest to log their data of how long it took them to get their Atma, and from what series of Fates they got it from. Not to mention the level of the fate, if it had a previous Fate that lead up to it, or was spawned due to a "Failed" fate. The only thing anyone can tell you is that the drop rate is rare, and will take you some time to finish the whole quest.
Thank you for the response! I have the quest, but admittedly skipped a lot of the dialogue when I picked it up. Also, didn't think to check the DB haha

I completely understand there are a lot of variables here to consider, so it would be very difficult to pin down something like this. Personally, I don't have the time or patience to log something like this, and have never actually "farmed" Atmas. It is quite possible that yes, it is truly random. Which is not bad thing, imo. However, doing research on this kind of thing would be awesome. Players used to do things like this in FFXI for figuring out drop rates/spawn times/stat calculations etc.