Divine, I sounded like you back when this Atma stuff came out. My wife and a friend of mine were all doing this atma thing at the same time. After a few days, I was 2/12, wife was 6/12 and friend was 9/12. That was with all of us fate-ing the same amount of time. However, the RNG, since it IS random does even out. Another 3 days and I was 9/12, wife was 10/12 and friend was done. Point is, my wife got 4 in 3 days and I got 7. It more or less evened out.

But what Bombast said is spot on. Atma/Animus/Novus weapons are obtainable by people with never stepping into very difficult content. The exchange of spending hours learning how to do second coil (which you can't be carried through) vs killing a whole lot of level 40 and under stuff and doing some dungeons, fates, leves... I won't say it takes less time to learn coil than to obtain an animus, but you can do the grind for animus with little challenge.