I Want a Safety Net - Atma

[cearka]

Wait, so you were gathering, a FATE spawned on top of you, you changed classes, and the FATE hadn't been already completed by the time your skills came off cooldown, three times? I call shenanigans.

yes. I tend play at odd hours when there are far fewer people. Alot of the gathering points are also far off from where the "bulk" of fates spawn, but have a few fringe fates that people are slower to get to. 3 of the five fates that popped near where I was gathering gave me an atma.

[Orophin]

Here's a novel idea - do something else?

[Blitzace]

I've been complaining about this quest alot, but 20 fates is way to easy. i would say increase drop rate by 1% every 10-20 fates. or give it away 100% at about 100-200 fates.

[Gumbercules]

Id like to see "atma shards" with higher drop rates on top of the atma, something that could average out to like 5 hrs ish worth of fate grind would eventually grant you the atma from "shards" if you just happen to have terrible luck :P

[Kabooa]

I will never understand the argument of "You need to work" for something in a -game-.

There is a significant difference between defeating a challenge in the game, and "working" to get something.

Fates are in no way a challenge. They are barely engaging, and lose their novelty quickly. This is all magnified to stupid extents when you add more and more people to them. I would rather spend 6 hours -wiping over and over- to an encounter where you fight every extreme primal -at the same time- for weeks at a time than do Fates. This is one of the worst designed treadmills for gear ever conceived, solely because it involves a mindless activity.

I wouldn't mind the RNG at all if it were connected to dungeons. At least in those I have the power to make it more interesting by pulling the entire instance and the bosses together if I so choose.

[Icebrand]

Whatever. I get a ton of them all of a sudden after two days of nothing. It's crazy -.-

[Venom]

Several people in my LS got 12 atmas in under 20 hours and it took me about 40 hours.... It's not that bad.

[AdenTaylor]

My latest tally, going by the 3000 fate achievement is 946 fates: 3 Atma.

Ridiculous... It just makes no sense for this otherwise great game to be gated by such a moronic, antiquated system. Sub is cancelled until some public announcement is made regarding a fix to this. It has ruined an otherwise excellent patch.

[farm3rb0b]

Should have just made it similar to other lockouts in the game. The Fates should have dropped coins to those with a +1 weapon. Some kind of seals of the bull or something and when you get 2000, you can buy that atma. Make it lock out after so many so you can only buy 1 or 2 atma a week. 12 atma...that'd still be 6-12 weeks minimum, but they lose the anger over the RNG madness. Though...that doesn't solve the issue of no one doing fates in certain regions...

[Blitzace]

Several people in my LS got 12 atmas in under 20 hours and it took me about 40 hours.... It's not that bad.

38? hours atm 2 atma's How is that not bad? Its far to random considering i've got my first atma at 35 hours and 10 minutes later my second one, makes no sense what so ever.