atma drop rates

[Alamovampire]

The fate system is completely fine. Kids these days just want instant gratification. Regardless if the work is challenging or not, work is work. PS: got my first set in 13 hours, then second set in 7 hours. It's a care-bear world now in MMOs sadly.

You say this because it was absurdly easy for you. Getting 24 atma in 20 hours is a statistical anomaly. I have a ton of free time atm and in the SAME 20 hours i did not even SEE ONE ATMA. It took 22.5 hours of constant fates for me to get ONE to drop.

Leaving a major weapons upgrade to complete chance is by far the worst idea ever. After I got one atma i managed to get my next 7 in about 8 hours overall then I hit and still am in a drought with needing 4 more still. 6 hours in outter la noscea with nothing dropping.

No this system is a joke.

[Avarghaladion]

You say this because it was absurdly easy for you. Getting 24 atma in 20 hours is a statistical anomaly. I have a ton of free time atm and in the SAME 20 hours i did not even SEE ONE ATMA. It took 22.5 hours of constant fates for me to get ONE to drop.

Leaving a major weapons upgrade to complete chance is by far the worst idea ever. After I got one atma i managed to get my next 7 in about 8 hours overall then I hit and still am in a drought with needing 4 more still. 6 hours in outter la noscea with nothing dropping.

No this system is a joke.

Yep. Don't expect much. I had a drought that lasted 80 hrs.

[Makendu]

atma drop rate makes me LOLOLOLOL ROFLCOPTER

[Benolan]

I was averaging about 80-100 fates per zone for my first few ATMA, until a guildie told me to switch zones more often. I started switching every 25 FATES or until I got a drop, and the rate seemed to improve. I still ended up averaging 50 fates per drop, but that's still better than 100.

I don't know if it really helped or not, but it seemed to.

[MagusO]

One thing i don't get is... WHY is the first step more difficult then the second! it makes no sense!

perhaps this is how it should be

Atma = bullshit just give me the weapon, let me do a simple quest.

Animus = book myth grind

Novus = Atma grind.

[dspguy]

The atma requirement does seem out of place. The rest of it is a simple deterministic grind. Grind 1500 myth. Get book. 3 dungeons, 100 mobs, 3 leves, 3 FATEs (which they made easier to do in a recent patch). Repeat. The, get 75 alexandrite. There is nothing really to it. Expert roulettes, grinding myth, etc.

The atma steps seems entirely out of whack with the rest of the relic/zenith/animus/novus quest. Honestly, considering how the atma are earned, I would have expected needing to spend GC seals on it. Or something else where you have a quest that says "Do 50 FATEs in Central Shroud." BAM, atma.

[erkhardt]

Spent 12 hours to get one ATMA. I did not. I will not farm for them again.

I'm not mad, it is what it is, there are other weapons out there. I am now going for Yagrush.

[Leasious]

Been on my first set ATMA for just over 2 months now, still only have 5, I spend roughly 2ish hours a day trying to get them, so much so I havent SOL capped in about 3-4 weeks. Is there any tips to getting them? I've heard that if there is ppl in the FATE also on ATMA not everyone will have the chance to get it, i.e 3 of us doing it for atmas, only 1 of us will get it, is that true?

[Cynfael]

I can't truly prove or disprove that notion, but I seriously doubt that the number of participants affects your drop rate simply based on the fact that I did numerous FATEs alone and with others involved, and I noticed no particular pattern. If anything, the areas I ended up haunting mostly by myself were some of the most stubborn (conversely, I would occasionally get an atma on the first or second FATE in an area while going solo).

Basically players know very little about how atma works except that the drop rate appears to be miserably low, and any theories about increasing your personal drop rate are just theories at best. Usually people pull these ideas directly out of their asses and post them as if they were factual.

[RiceisNice]

I believe somewhere Yoshi P confirmed that atma is a flat droprate and nothing else; it's not influenced by any other factors or party comp.