ATMA nerf

[infinitezero]

That's all fine and dandy... except a few of these fates spawn for extremely short periods of time. "Heroes of the 2nd" as soon as it spawns its already gone, and getting anything lower than gold will get you no credit on book. Theirs a few other fates but I cant remember them.

I had to do this one for Book of Skyfire II, so I know what you mean. It's not a very long Fate, and the mobs are just as easy as the regular ones on the next platform. Easily cleared by 2 people with time to spare. If there are others doing the other Fates, it's probably a better idea to camp it in this situation. Most times I see people camping it though is during dead periods. In this case they should all run around clearing other Fates (and not worry about not making it in time since nobody else is around), or wait until the Atma grinders get on to camp it.

[Yumi_umi]

I got 8 atmas in 1 sitting of about 10 hours. I felt like i was a zombie for fating that long. It was past 12am pdt so there were barely anyone running fates so it was just me and my choco lol.
Honestly this is BS for people who can't play this long, i felt so lucky after my previous attempt of trying to obtain it back at 2.2 launch. So honestly they really need to fix this and make it less grindy. Also lol wtf is with the whole " special snowflake " comments? It sounds so dumb lol. Ppl here are trying and that's what counts.

[Sapphic]

I got 8 atmas in 1 sitting of about 10 hours. I felt like i was a zombie for fating that long. It was past 12am pdt so there were barely anyone running fates so it was just me and my choco lol.
Honestly this is BS for people who can't play this long, i felt so lucky after my previous attempt of trying to obtain it back at 2.2 launch. So honestly they really need to fix this and make it less grindy. Also lol wtf is with the whole " special snowflake " comments? It sounds so dumb lol. Ppl here are trying and that's what counts.

Well no-one forced you to FATE grind for 10 hours straight, You could easily have spread it to 5 hours for 2 days, or 3 hrs for 3 days. ^_^

[Sapphic]

Will SE make it easier to obtain ATMA in future releases? If so, I would like to hold off farming ATMA

If they nerf ATMA, it will be harder to obtain.

If they buff, they increase drop rate.

So which one you asking for?

[Blackcanary]

I still think depending on the time should be when u see a higher drop rate but it should always be changing so its never the same time.

[SweDDishB]

They just need to change it so the player knows where their time is going. Leaving things up to randomness makes a player feel frustrated after 4hrs of play and nothing to show for it.

[Merle]

They just need to change it so the player knows where their time is going. Leaving things up to randomness makes a player feel frustrated after 4hrs of play and nothing to show for it.

Hey! that's not correct. You ENJOYED 4 full hours of FATEs! FATEs are fun!

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Ok, ok, i know where is the door... /goodbye

[ErnestoGiovanni]

Well, I took relic to be something you can solo. I got all my relic weapons on pugs and DF groups, Atmas you can solo you can pug myth tomes and DF book challenges and solo fates or Pug them. I could get a regular relic in a few hours with hard grind upgrade it in a couple days because of the limited play time i have. But Atmas take a ridiculous amount of time. In the overall of things, if you're not investing a lot of time at each sitting, it takes a very long time. I grind fates for an hour a day sometimes up to 3hours. Still trying since day one to get southern thanalan and lower la noscea the rest i have.

[Odett]

I think the drop rate is fine. I spent almost a combined total of 25 hours in Central Shroud before I got mine, and only needed to do 3 FATEs in Western La Noscea for the next one; that's RNG for you. I think the best way to go about the farm is to not think that you'll get any ATMAs at all while you're doing the FATEs, and just go into autopilot as you move from FATE to FATE (listening to music helps with this). It's a long-term project, and you can't expect to get them all in one or two sessions.

What WOULD be nice is if you had to have a Zenith to get the quest (like it is now), but let you farm the FATEs with any class/weapon combination. I really don't see the reason to have your Zenith equipped for the farm.

[abzoluut]

The only changes Id like to see are: larger quantities of myth drops, more equal places to get them from. Everyone runs Brayflox (me too), why should I do Lost City or Halatali.. As for the Atma drops: people with an Animus should not have to go through the same Atma grind again.