Quote Originally Posted by Gramul View Post
Simple fix. Add a counter. At the 1000th FATE you get one regardless.
You can keep the surprise of getting one "early" while also having a clear goal for the people who want it.
1,000 is a bit ridiculous, but me and my FC members had a discussion about this being a fix as well. If they just kept the RNG the way it was, and put a default counter on each zone (lets say 50, just for the sake of picking a number) then I think a lot of these threads would go away.

You've done 50 Fates in South Thanalan without a drop? Ok, counter has filled up and your 51st Fate would give you an Atma, guaranteed. Using 50 in the examples would guarantee that you had all 12 by the time you did 600 FATEs, maybe sooner if the RNG shined down on your for a zone or two.

Think 600 FATEs is too many? I got my 12 Atma's on the first weekend of 2.2 and I still had to do over 700 of them, so I think it's pretty fair.

But, a simple fix like this would calm a lot of people down, I think.

Unless everyone that said they didn't want it handed to them on a silver platter was just flat out lying. This way you would have something tangible to look at, and not be left wondering forever if you were going to get your drops.