Atma hunting THANK YOU SE!

[AdvancedWind]

..and healers standing by your side letting u die!!! All of them in Cleric Instance. lol

I do that. Sorry, dear party members, but unless you're the main tank, the best way of getting gold is going around DoTing everything.

I will still raise you if you die. Promise.

[Calyanare]

Because people want a challange and a reward that actually means something, but when they finally get the option it's suddenly to hard and it's ruining the game and people want their atmas right now.

I got my 1st drop in my 23rd hour of FATE grinding. It's not that I want them NOW, it's that I want to be making some kind of progress in all this grinding, and I also want it to be a grind for everyone who does the quest, not just the unlucky ones.

For example, if they'd made FATEs have a 20% chance to drop an Atma Shard, and you need 100 of these from each zone to assemble that zone's Atma, I would be much more okay with that, but if they really wanted to get people out in the world doing the content and socializing, they could have made it a quest to complete every FATE that spawns in the zone before you receive the Atma for that zone (they could even include Odin for every zone in the Shroud!). That, I think, would have been an interesting way to get people engaged with each other and the content.

This is just a horribly badly designed quest. The upgrade should be difficult to get, I'm with you on that, but it shouldn't be 100% luck and 0% skill/tenacity, the way it is now.

[Mithent]

Because people want a challange and a reward that actually means something, but when they finally get the option it's suddenly to hard and it's ruining the game and people want their atmas right now.

There is zero challenge in grinding FATEs. If it weren't for having to move between them, I could spam the Blizzard II button while I read a book or played another game and be guaranteed gold on nearly every one with little to no risk of failure. The only challenge is whether you can endure the tedium for long enough to get lucky.

[Wicc]

I do that. Sorry, dear party members, but unless you're the main tank, the best way of getting gold is going around DoTing everything.

I will still raise you if you die. Promise.

Didn't you know that you get credit for healing as well....? Dot on mob, heal whoever is playing tank in your party: Bam- Gold.

[HeroSamson]

I said fates were the best for this and its true how ever since yesterdays huge spikes of lag I haven't seen one atma crystal I obtained 5 and been in central thanalan 75 fates in and not one drop.

I am so sick of looking at the zone I am afraid if I go to another zone progress will be lost.

just as I made the post 76 fates and Scale atma crystal drops. CYA thanalan.

[Synthesis]

I like game. I don't like like fates tho. It's mindless boring grind. Why do I kill lvl 3 mobs with relic anyway. It's tiring, not refreshing at all. Fates in general are no fun.

Pros/
+ Open world content
+ Long term goal

Cons/
- Fate
- Mindless zerg fest