8 hours of no atma

[Aelis]

20 hours here

[Norondor]

I'm willing to do a 2nd one, it gives me something to do.

i want to say this as gently as possible so you know i'm not insulting you, and for you to know i have every possible bit of respect for you as a human being when i say this; it might be worth broadening the scope of things you think of as "something to do" beyond grinding one-in-ten-thousand drops twenty-four times

[LydallMomoda]

I took 15 hours to farm my final atma piece.

[Xetter]

I got my first 4 atmas in 6 hours, then my 5th in a further 8 hours. Now i'm on about 30 hours more with no drop. I was starting to get a bit bored so I watched Game of Thrones instead.

I thought "what would I be doing instead of this atma quest if it was easier"

My answer was watch game of thrones anyway. I think the biggest danger here is definitely the boredom, you lose sight of what you are doing and then log off and do something else.

[ChigginNomNom]

My first Atma took 14 hours, which finally dropped in N. Shroud. I then proceed to C. Thanalan, and sure enough it drops on my first fate there. Not sure if its some sick joke but this quest is seriously out of hand. I'm all for quests being challenging, time consuming, and maybe even a little bit of RNG, but the extent to which this quest is RNG'd is out of this world. There is a difference between challenging and gambling, and this quest makes it quite clear which of the two it chooses to determine success. I absolutely love the "lol play something else", the "theres other content in the game, do that", or the really good one "i got mine in this amount of time, just keep going and you will get it eventually". The last one sometimes isn't directed in a negative or trolling fashion, but it comes off all the same in text. If you have to defend a quest that is so popular by saying "Do something else, we have other stuff in the game", that is just proving the point of poor quest design.

[RoxasXIII]

Base atma doesn't even change stats, just ilevel. Animus is unattainable right now (can only do 4 books) and so imo t5 weapons still trump zodiack AT THIS MOMENT.
In the future zodiack still get better again but right now its not eeven close to the best. Animus stage is worse than weathered soldiery gear (at least for my monk) and high allagen is ilvl115, so yeah. (For monk I'm going for repaired soildery as BiS anyway) Hell, id even reckon that levi weapon is better then my atma as It is right now...

[Ilitsa]

I'm at 40 hrs and 0/12 right now, taking a break and hanging out with my 3 year old nephew atm

[Undeadfire]

Animus is unattainable right now (can only do 4 books) and so imo t5 weapons still trump zodiack AT THIS MOMENT.

Not true, can be obtained. There's 4 types of books, you buy the same one to get the next level book till you cap it. It does add up to 9.

3: STR/DEX/INT/MND
3: VIT
2: Determ/Acc/Crit/Piety/Skill Speed/Spell Speed/Parry
1: Determ/Acc/Crit/Piety/Parry/Skill Speed/Spell Speed

[brigannd]

OP must not be skilled enough to get Atmas :<