Sorry SE,

I tried, I have put hours in and no Atma drop. I've even resorted to giving into conspiracy theories about the Japanese Standard Time grind (known as server time +1 to some), still nothing for hours.

I can't see the fun or use in doing fates endlessly, and the part that is most troubling is I'll be right back doing them when I get back to leveling my Bard and my Monk.

No one's holding a gun to my head to do this. Excluding the people who I inevitably have to party with who are going to start saying No Animus, No Soldiery Weap, No Allagan, No EX Levi Weap? Can't play with us, that's who's holding a gun to my head.

Let me go off on the Atma checklist:

Yes I have my Zenith equipped (plural actually as I get bored and switch to other classes with Zenith)

Yes I activated my Zodiac flag via the up in arms quest. (which was bizarre in of itself by the way)

I get gold/silver whatever, gold or silver never matters it doesn't drop.