atma drop rates

[heit]

I agree progression on a quest needs to be clear... I'm grinding for three days 12+hours now without a drop after having 5 drop last week within 4 days.

I don't usually complain but this is something I'd expect to see in a F2P game. The fact that we're paying a sub to have to grind the same thing over and over again for a drop which frankly has myself paranoid and questioning if I'm doing the right thing consistently, just seems a little lazy.

I understand that it's not meant to be easy to get the upgrade, but I'm seeing people with level 60 gear and atma weapons a week after the patch, while friends and myself struggle to get past the 5 mark on our first weapon.

[TheSL]

I'm mostly annoyed with the RNG because the rest of the game has been easy to set aside a couple hours around my kids to get stuff done, but here it just feels like I'm grinding endlessly for no progression to the next relic upgrade. Not everyone is a college kid or whatever with 40+ hrs of disposable free time each week.

[skho01]

I'm mostly annoyed with the RNG because the rest of the game has been easy to set aside a couple hours around my kids to get stuff done, but here it just feels like I'm grinding endlessly for no progression to the next relic upgrade. Not everyone is a college kid or whatever with 40+ hrs of disposable free time each week.

Couldn't agree more. I get that they want to put out enough things to do for the user base until the next content patch. Frankly, this grind fest is not content nor is it a challenge. It is nothing but lazy/poorly thought out design. In fact, this trajectory is deviating very far from the initial design to promote having multiple class/jobs. It is essentially forcing people with or without 40hrs of free time a week to place an emphasis on one class. The initial progression methodology of locking people out via a difficult encounter (then Titan HM) was brilliant. More of that, less of this. Please!

[glitterati]

probably one of the most thought through observational comments i've seen. kudos sir, you hit the nail on the head.

[SaikaSyvari]

I typed an essay after todays... attempts to get another Atma but we have a 1k character limit on here, so I'll link my Lodestone Blog (which has a 3k limit).

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest.../blog/1067862/

Feel free to comment on there, I think I have a few valid points and I'm looking at it from multiple points of view in the big picture.

Couldn't agree more. I get that they want to put out enough things to do for the user base until the next content patch. Frankly, this grind fest is not content nor is it a challenge. It is nothing but lazy/poorly thought out design. In fact, this trajectory is deviating very far from the initial design to promote having multiple class/jobs. It is essentially forcing people with or without 40hrs of free time a week to place an emphasis on one class. The initial progression methodology of locking people out via a difficult encounter (then Titan HM) was brilliant. More of that, less of this. Please!

Titan HM was a good roadblock, I got stuck there because of other people not being able to get past it. All it is when you look back is a 12 minute fight that is quite simple and easy to predict - I agree completely with your comment.