Atma of the Crab

[stanrir]

i have 9 Atmas so far and have been trying to get this one for 3 days now 4 hours a day, can anyone give me some advice on this atma. I just feel like i am doing something wrong for it to take this long to get

EDIT: ok so i went and got the other ones I needed pretty fast and came back to crab tried it at 12 like the guide said and no luck got on the next day (which is today) and got it at 7:18 pm ^.^ from that FATE with the Aurochs.

[Musashidon]

it's random i had 5 of these before my gf had even 1 she even kicked me out eventually xD

[Mook_Mook]

keep on pluggin away at it. It'll happen eventualy

[Vahlnir]

The only advice I could give is hit up a fate off and on while doing dailies. I was fortunate in getting mine after 2 days, but I farmed a lot of Fates. If you're looking to full-on farm it I'd stick with the ones in the Sahagin area. They spawn regularly and in a relatively small area.

[Murakamo]

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...arming_theory/

Ever since following this, I have not had to grind more than an hour for an atma.

[JayCommon]

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...arming_theory/

Ever since following this, I have not had to grind more than an hour for an atma.

Lmao. I love when people try to make sense and find ways to 'beat' RNG. First of all, if there was a set practice it would work for everyone, not just a few people who post on reddit. I say a few people because all the rest of non-posters are still farming their atma's. My buddy was convinced this Japanese theory would work, and he still hasn't gotten a drop in 2 days. Stay at home dad so he can play whenever he wants.

This theory says that you are capped at 4 atma's every 12 hours. Explain how I got my atma weapon within 2 days of 2.2 patch releasing? I got 8 of them in one day, the remaining 4 the next day.

Don't get me wrong, I am happy you were able to get your atma pops....but they didn't happen because of some crack-pot theory, regardless if the times coincided with those stated or not.

People are just blowing smoke up each other's you-know-what. There is no rhyme or reason to atma drops. If you hit the Atma lottery at that specific FATE, you get your atma, simple as that. The only way you could ever hope to increase your odds at getting an Atma is if you could trick the game into thinking your character is two seperate entities and you get two rolls on it per every finished FATE.

Another friend of mine is convinced that if you take the right-hand route through ADS nodes in turn 2 then the chests drop caster items...

OP: The best advice I have heard anyone give, is if you are getting burnt out with trying for your current atma, just stop hunting the atma and do something else in-game for a little while until you cool off. It gets frustrating for people when they hear of others getting theirs quick when you are stuck. Go farm some myth tomes and come back to it, trust me you will need a lot of those.

[Tiggy]

Lmao. I love when people try to make sense and find ways to 'beat' RNG......

This this and this. People just want to find patterns or make sense of it. It's just RNG.

[TeaTimeBear]

This this and this. People just want to find patterns or make sense of it. It's just RNG.

B-but if you take away our tinfoil hats what will we have left?! Certainly not atmas...!

Joking aside, you may think you have terrible luck OP but I am STILL @ 2. I've put it off for the moment to do extremes. I only do fates for the most part during beasts.

[Murakamo]

Lmao. I love when people try to make sense and find ways to 'beat' RNG. First of all, if there was a set practice it would work for everyone, not just a few people who post on reddit. I say a few people because all the rest of non-posters are still farming their atma's. My buddy was convinced this Japanese theory would work, and he still hasn't gotten a drop in 2 days. Stay at home dad so he can play whenever he wants.

This theory says that you are capped at 4 atma's every 12 hours. Explain how I got my atma weapon within 2 days of 2.2 patch releasing? I got 8 of them in one day, the remaining 4 the next day.

Another friend of mine is convinced that if you take the right-hand route through ADS nodes in turn 2 then the chests drop caster items...

You clearly don't read very well. The OP of that page suggested its possible that you are capped at 4 every 12 hours. Implying that it is not proven. In fact NONE of this is proven. It is as you say, a theory. A theory that is working for people who try it.


I tried it, got several of my friends to try it too and they all got their atmas very shortly after following it. NOTHING can be proven about how the drops work unless a dev comes out and states it (as they are the only ones that know how it works).

Plus, if OP is getting frustrated, might as well give it a shot. Can't hurt, can it?

Also, who said the whole thing was RNG? It is very possible that SE didn't design it entirely to be RNG.

[KylePearlsand]

I got a friend who got 5 in six hours. I think the cap part is false.