So, I'm not here to cry and moan about how grueling the Atma quest has been. However, I do want to ask about it, because surely I must be doing it wrong.

My first two atma's, central and eastern Thanalan, did not take TOO long to get. About 2 hours each. However, I'm on my third now, and I've been at it since friday.

Western Thanalan, I've done over 100 fates and have been here for 3 days for a total of 9ish hours played. I am getting discouraged from continuing the quest at this point.

It's not fun as a WHM. I dismount, sync, cleric stance and then spam aero 1. So I ask, is there a trick to it? What am I doing wrong? Because I really hope the RNG is not this bad.