atma drop rates

[Black91CRX]

I farmed East shroud for 12+ hrs before getting an Atma. I got the one in Lower La Noscea on the first Fate...lol

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

I farmed East shroud for 12+ hrs before getting an Atma. I got the one in Lower La Noscea on the first Fate...lol

I still recommend getting the Lower La Nosc one first. Largest FATE map available, FATEs spread so far apart.

And ending on Water Bear. Smallest FATE map, FATEs comfortably close to each other, RIDICULOUS FATE spawn timer (as in beat one, another one always pops up).

[Isam]

I am posting here in the hope that a comm team or dev team member actually reads it. This is not a complaint or rage. This is simply a set of facts.

Fact: I stopped keeping track of hours spent farming atma around 50h, and GC seals (earned from FATE grinding) some time after that at around 300k. To be fair, some small percentage of those were earned doing roulettes and some supply/provisioning here and there, but I would feel comfortable saying that upwards of 95% was FATEing.

Fact: During this time, I scored exactly zero atma. I understand that the nature of the RNG beast is such that in order for there to be people who get their 12 in ~10h, there has to be people like myself on the opposite side of the bell curve.

Fact: Because of this (lazy, horribly designed, seriously flawed - opinion) system, I have cancelled both my XIV and XI subscriptions. I have been subscribed to both since their respective NA launches. This issue has cured my addiction.

[Isam]

I mostly think XIV has been a great game since ARR. It incorporates (or has, until this fiasco) hardcore and casual gaming in a pretty synergistic way. I enjoyed my time with it, and I would love to say that I will come back when this atma drop system is fixed/increased/updated (as it will be - 4 AK nerfs since ARR).

With the speed at which they are running the treadmill, I would be chasing level 200 gear by that point in addition to being 4 or 5 stages behind on the relic. (At pace, that'll be August.) Staring down that barrel seems more like work than entertainment at that point, something I'm not paying $15/mo for.

Again, not interested in arguing or defending my PoV. Just thought that someone should know that the massive massive misstep (again, opinion) of the FATE-atma grind is costing them customers and revenue - customers that have been loyal to the franchise for almost 30 years. I know I'm just 1/2,000,000 of the player base, but I bet I'm not on my own.

[Black91CRX]

I still recommend getting the Lower La Nosc one first. Largest FATE map available, FATEs spread so far apart.

And ending on Water Bear. Smallest FATE map, FATEs comfortably close to each other, RIDICULOUS FATE spawn timer (as in beat one, another one always pops up).

I'm really not looking forward to the Southern Thanalan one. Yikes

[Maero]

The atma of the twins (central thanalan i believe) has been by far the most annoying one.
2 weeks there and nothing yet

[Wintersandman]

I maybe do 10-20 fates a night. I log in do my roulettes, help out LS if needed then go off and do Atma's. I pick different zones each time and look for lowest populated zones. So I have 2 atma's to be fair I have only been doing this for about a week. I am more dreading the animus than the fates. 13500 myth is just a ton.

[VoidEdge]

This. Is. Not. Fun.
Steady progress, even slow progress, is fun.
I don't even mind fishing (at least I'm catching SOMETHING).
But this? I can't even use a sub-50 class to use the XP. If you have bad luck like I do, it's just a terrible (and possibly infinite) waste of time.
And the more people quit farming Atmas (either give up or get theirs) the more time each FATE takes. So it actually gets WORSE every week.

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

I'm really not looking forward to the Southern Thanalan one. Yikes

South Than is actually pretty easy. FATEs were popping around Lil'migo rather frequently and they're easy. There we generally a lot of people around when I went for my first set along the Amalj'aa territory, so the FATEs there were pretty easy to do. Sometimes I even purely solo'd them as Monk in CT gear, so i90s shouldn't have a problem.

This. Is. Not. Fun.
Steady progress, even slow progress, is fun.
I don't even mind fishing (at least I'm catching SOMETHING).
But this? I can't even use a sub-50 class to use the XP. If you have bad luck like I do, it's just a terrible (and possibly infinite) waste of time.
And the more people quit farming Atmas (either give up or get theirs) the more time each FATE takes. So it actually gets WORSE every week.

Most FATEs in the areas you grind atmas from can be solo'd. Even having your companion helps for most of them.

[Kagoma]

Well I finally finished getting my last atma and am 12/12 as of last night too about 86 hours to get them all. So about one every 7 hours or so of play time spent farming fates non-stop. I would put in about 3-4 hours of atam farming each night with a few night off here and there to recover from the insanity. Worst times in zones were up words of 10-12 hours quickest drop was 4 hours in a zone.

Was doing one fate about every 5 min or so. Just give a better idea of the number of fates i did.... I was about 500 fates done in my achievement log before 2.2 am now at 1300 fates done after 2.2 ~800 fates done 800/12=1.5% drop rate.