Am I doing something wrong with Atma farming? I have not dropped a single item.

[Odd]

If its this hard on you, then why are you doing it? Its even more of a grind to get to animus and novus.
Atma is 100% optional.

Living with a roof over your head is optional. Eating 3 meals a day is optional. Having people love us is optional.

But all of those things are things we want, so you might say there's no option. I want 12 Atma's, so it's no option for me.

And the Animus grind is NOT worse. I wouldn't care if I need 10k myth PER book, and have to run Sastasha 100 times. At least progress would be measurable and I would know exactly how long it would take me. I don't mind grinding when there's a goal in sight. Or when someone who plays 10% as much as me has a 90% less chance of finishing his before me.