Atma Fate System Broken

[HakuroDK]

Honestly? I would be surprised if 2.25 doesn't do something to fix the drop rates.

Not that it bothers me any, personally, as I play a Warrior and none of the variants of Bravura have any Accuracy on them whatsoever, which therefore makes them completely and utterly worthless, but that is not to say I am without sympathy for people who have been grinding since day 1 of 2.2 to get their atmas and still don't have a complete set of crystals yet, because I do feel your pain. I eventually want to be able to complete the Zodiac weapon quest. Not for the weapon itself unless it allows me to put some accuracy on my Bravura, but moreso for the sake of completing the story of the Zodiac.

My fingers are crossed that something gets done!

[ArcFinix]

Honestly? I would be surprised if 2.25 doesn't do something to fix the drop rates.

Not that it bothers me any, personally, as I play a Warrior and none of the variants of Bravura have any Accuracy on them whatsoever, which therefore makes them completely and utterly worthless, but that is not to say I am without sympathy for people who have been grinding since day 1 of 2.2 to get their atmas and still don't have a complete set of crystals yet, because I do feel your pain. I eventually want to be able to complete the Zodiac weapon quest. Not for the weapon itself unless it allows me to put some accuracy on my Bravura, but moreso for the sake of completing the story of the Zodiac.

My fingers are crossed that something gets done!

don't seem to be a fix in 2.25 as of the announcement of 2.25 patch day.

[HakuroDK]

don't seem to be a fix in 2.25 as of the announcement of 2.25 patch day.

Well all the announcement said was that there will be a patch. As far as I know, there has not been a published list of changes for 2.25 yet.

[Ryans]

Honestly? I would be surprised if 2.25 doesn't do something to fix the drop rates.

Not that it bothers me any, personally, as I play a Warrior and none of the variants of Bravura have any Accuracy on them whatsoever, which therefore makes them completely and utterly worthless, but that is not to say I am without sympathy for people who have been grinding since day 1 of 2.2 to get their atmas and still don't have a complete set of crystals yet, because I do feel your pain. I eventually want to be able to complete the Zodiac weapon quest. Not for the weapon itself unless it allows me to put some accuracy on my Bravura, but moreso for the sake of completing the story of the Zodiac.

My fingers are crossed that something gets done!

You probably will be able to put accuracy on it once the stat customization comes out for the Zodiac questline.

As for the aforementioned list of times to get atma; does it work? Maybe. Does it lower your chances? Certainly not. There is definitely a possibility that the drop rate is increased during certain times and it isn't hurting anyone to have a placebo theory.

[Aegis]

As for the aforementioned list of times to get atma; does it work? Maybe. Does it lower your chances? Certainly not.

Actually, it could lower your chances. If there is a similar pattern to Atma drop rates, but on a different rotation/schedule, this schedule could actually consistently keep you away from the 'correct' zone and lower your chances compared to just randomly zoning.

Personally, I think it's RNG. And yes, it sucks. But now I have my Atma weapon, I will fight to the death to keep the RNG low: If I had to suffer, everyone does.

[Worm]

People would be complaining about whatever else they made it drop from.

Of course not, who would have a problem with running Brayflox multiple times for 3 weeks straight?

I mean there's always a looming question of how efficiently someone is doing their FATEs, how well they're estimated their time, and various other factors. Do they only do areas where they can FATE solo? Actually my older brother told me of a general rule they'd use on the EQ forums when someone complained about the grind. They'd always assume they got twice as many drops as they said they did and in half the time. I'm pretty sure I was in Upper La Noscea for two 8 hour bricks before I got my Atma drop later the last night, granted I guess you can just apply the previous paragraph to me as well.

[kiraan]

And why would you be so sure it doesnt work? We can't clearly prove it works but you can't prove it doesn't either.

RNG is still RNG , you can go up to 90% drop and never see a drop. And as people say, its a nice change of pace as to not getting stuck in the same place for 24hrs+ on the same atma.

I did 700+ fate for my first set of twelve, i'm on less than 80 and at 6 already. Even if you don't think it works, the game think it does

[Columbian]

I'm on 20/24 atmas and here's what I've noticed and helped me.

The first 12 I just grinded and grinded. I got 1 on the first fate and others took atleast 1hr max 5hr per drop changing zones every so often. I did it over the course of a week never spending more then 2hrs/day/zone. At this time limit I would simply log off and/do other things. I did get them all.

2nd set which I'm working on now following that reddit theory post. Im at 8/12. It's just that, a theory. Yes, I have had several drop within 20m on the zone Window, however I have spent an equal/ greater amount of time with nothing using the same strat. I've sat in zones for the full hour over a few days span and nothing. Others drop with 5 fates.

RNG is what it is. I do hope they adjust the drop rate though as somebody with the 3000 fate achievement before the patch, this is a boring grind. :/

[Worm]

It is funny how quickly people dismissed the system. Even if it doesn't work does it really waste your time? If nothing else having a lot of people in the area at the same time will speed up the completion of FATEs. You should buy a few of these candles too


If grinding bothers you so much don't do it. I'm sure they'll add the damn things to dungeons or something at some point.

[Kewitt]

I haven't actively farmed any atmas, and I currently 13/12 and still need 6 for my 1st.
5 I have 2 of 1 I have 3 of.
Stop forcing it and just let it happened. Think of it like this. A watched pot doesn't boil. Well it does but time seems to go buy slowly. Traveling threw area, Always as my 50's with zeith oo fate pop I should kill them 1-2 mins later 10 other people join fate over 2 mins later. hope on bird keep going to zone I was playing to go to, repeat.