Community Ignored about Atma?

[Yahavage]

I quite like how it works. FATEs are highly accesible content, making it very easy for someone like me who is trying to squeeze atma farming time in between everything else and work... sure, I spent a long time in Western La Noscea, and I currently only have 5 atmas... but I'm chipping away as and when I can. Also, it's not like you don't get anything from FATE spamming... FC points, GC seals (which I'm burning through pretty fast on ventures) and a little bit of gil to boot.
That's my thoughts anyway!

[Ilitsa]

Also, it's not like you don't get anything from FATE spamming... FC points, GC seals (which I'm burning through pretty fast on ventures) and a little bit of gil to boot.
That's my thoughts anyway!

That's pretty much how i saw it. I run a very small FC (me, my fiance and a couple friends that decide to log in here or there, it's basically just me and her though), and we've leveled our FC almost all the way through rank 6 just getting my Gae Bolg Atma, it was a nice incentive for me to do these FATEs, personally

[AmyNeudaiz]

He takes my commendations too

[Worm]

Gosh look at you guys, trying to hold me to my words like I'm a developer. Anyway I can't find an interview saying it a new aspect of it will be added in 2.25 and a lot of people on the forum think it's going to be some sort of way to make it easier. Sorry I can't find the information for you, but someone else mentioned it will be made easier then and I just kind of trusted that person. Either way, keep losing it over Atma as long as you want.

Maybe they'll let you skip the RNG and then you can get to the awesome Book aspect, which is somehow much more appealing to people?

[Vesuvias]

Maybe they'll let you skip the RNG and then you can get to the awesome Book aspect, which is somehow much more appealing to people?

the books you can see progress as you do them, so what if they are harder, they should be the real time crunch not the bloody atma weapons...

[MilesSaintboroguh]

the books you can see progress as you do them, so what if they are harder, they should be the real time crunch not the bloody atma weapons...

It would also mean that people can do the books at their own pace knowing each run puts em a step closer. Less fuss I think.

[Raucent]

Exactly, Luck in things like Quick Ventures is great, Luck in something like atmas leads to /headdesk frustration, As mentioned if SE had said do 500 Fates per zone, ppl would grumble but do it knowing where they stand, being able to take a break when they want

[losttemplar6]

so far i personally am at 3 atmas just got my 3rd bout 5 mins ago i so far i am noticing a bit of a pattern with them my first one was central shroud took 8 hrs to get it to drop and god knows how many fates in that time second was south thanalan took bout 4-5 hrs to drop and last was uper la noscea took maybe 10-15 fates and droped

kinda comming to the conclusion that the more remote the region less luck plays its part as kinda seems the dice roll is higher in starter areas then it is in say outskirt areas just my observation so far still early to draw any resonable conclusion but seems more they want the high levels to farm longer in starter zones then others

[Pooky_Pasha]

I never expect any kind of comments from the devs, especially considering how quick the forum community is to take what is said and twist it, distort it, read stuff into that isn't there. Really, if they did give feedback on it, it would just spawn more QQ threads. If they don't, it still spawns QQ threads. It's not the crappy RNG (all RNG is crappy, but it's a basic tool of MMOs and table top games), or the crappy FATES that's killing the fun of this game for people, it's the obsession of how crappy the tools are. I personally thought that the relic quest was just as brain-dead boring and easy as ATMA farming, especially after the first time through it. All the devs did was listen to thousands of QQ posts pre-2.2 equating timesinks and crappy RNG to "difficulty" because somehow that made FFXI "hard."

[zeez]

Did get the Central Than Atma last night total time just above 12 and half hours over 3 days for 1 atma, today went to East Than got it first fate, wow lucky. Then went to West Than a little over 5 hours no drop and left. Had at least 6 people come and go in party claiming to get it in that time.

This is exactly the problem. Several people got it in first fate like I did and others were like me there for 4+ hours and quit with frustration.

Also I did camp JBoots back in the EQ days but keep in mind that a long spawn time with a low drop chance is not the same thing as running back and forth in low level content constantly for hours on end. Also camping is just that you are at a spot you camp it. This is more of errand boy deliveries going from spot to spot fighting for a few minutes then moving on to the next spot for hours on end.