ATMA is probably going to kill me...

[Divine-Fist]

Ok I'm prepared for a lot of negative feedback and I won't respond to it but the atma quest line is seriously effecting my health. There's absolutely no way of getting an atma in just a few minutes of grinding fates. It literally takes hours and in my case days. I try not to play more than 4 hours at a time but doing fates for the hope of an atma drop has caused me to have a seizure twice. I have epilepsy but I've grown up playing games, it's not something I wanna give up. I just don't understand how the developers can not acknowledge the negative health effects of making things in the game that require you to sit in front of your computer for hours at a time and not do something to address the problem. It is absolutely not healthy and with me being epileptic there is always a chance I could die from having a seizure.

[FelisC]

Haha oh my god.

EDIT: But if you're serious, there are organizations that are designed to help you: contact your health insurance provider if you have one or a local community organization regarding addiction. There's nothing requiring you do to this and if you feel that it is a danger to your health and you still can't stop yourself, then you need to recognize that you need help.

EDIT2: I'm not trying to be sarcastic or a jerk - your health is the most important thing that you have and you having a particular class of relic as fast as other people is not that important at all. There is no content that you'd be able to complete with it that you wouldn't be able to do without it and you'll have plenty of time to get an i110 weapon. Take care of yourself first.

[Mugiawara]

Yikes.
I kinda hope you're fibbing....but if not, there are alternatives if you're having a hard time doing Atma.
Seriously, just stop before you hurt yourself. Do what I'm doing...Get the Leviathan EX weapons and Ramuh EX weapon.
I believe they are both ilvl95 - ilvl100 respectively. It's more fun to try those ways too.
Also, no one is forcing you to do Atma. Your health is above all than this game.

Be safe.

[Divine-Fist]

Yikes.
I kinda hope you're fibbing....but if not, there are alternatives if you're having a hard time doing Atma.
Seriously, just stop before you hurt yourself. Do what I'm doing...Get the Leviathan EX weapons and Ramuh EX weapon.
I believe they are both ilvl95 - ilvl100 respectively. It's more fun to try those ways too.
Also, no one is forcing you to do Atma. Your health is above all than this game.

Be safe.

The problem is I've been told I can't do certain things because of my condition my whole life and I hate it. For me it's a matter of proving to myself that I can do it. I don't wanna be the outcast while everyone else gets their bragging rights because they got their novus weapon. I just dunno if my body can handle much more. *sigh* It's just not fair that normal people can go for hours and it's nothing and they even brag about it. Meanwhile if I try to do it to accomplish what they've done it could possibly kill me from a seizure.

[LalaRu]

...There's absolutely no way of getting an atma in just a few minutes of grinding fates. It literally takes hours...

Ho yes, when the path to get weapons that are in the top 10 of the game takes more than some minute, there is sure a problem.

Then, if you decide to make things not healty for you, it is your own responsability and fault. If I want want go down my 5th floor faster than the elevator, I will not jump down the window (professional stuntmen does but with help at the end side, not recommended do it!) but will run the stairs. Developers cannot fix your way of dealing with things.

[Alukah]

You might want to try out getting UAT from ST and buying the soldiery weapon instead.

[HeroSamson]

Well you could go for the other option.

Do CT 2, get the unidentified tombstone, get 1500 soldiery and buy rowena tokens, go get your weapon and then get a sands of time and upgrade it.

[Farah]

You actually can get an atma in only a few fates. One of mine in la noscea dropped after only 2 fates. That being said, I've been working on the atma in central thanalan for four days and still havent seen it drop. It's completely random and very frustrating.

I can see why you wouldn't want to be left behind. I'm having that issue myself. Most of my friends either have their animus/novus or are at least working on books. I can't even get all the atmas yet. There is the option of going after the weapons from coil/ramuh/levi instead, but I would like to move past this stupid atma part with RNG and work on books. My myth tomes are just being wasted at this point when i know they could go towards books.

If this is affecting your health, I suggest taking a break. Usually you can feel when a seizure is right about to happen. I suggest doing like I have to do a lot of the time. Farm for an hour or two, then get up and grab a snack/nap/restroom break (whatever gets you away from the screen for a couple of minutes), and then come back and try it again. If it gets frustrating then switch to another task. Run a dungeon/fish/craft and then switch back to the atma. Long sitting sessions aren't good for any players, seizure or not.

[Noshpan]

I had been farming Atma in Outer La Noscea (for Atma of the Lion) since the option to farm Atma became available to me. That was about a couple of weeks ago. I didn't get the Atma of the Lion until a couple of hours before tonight's maintenance.

But, in all honesty, don't go so far as to have it adversely affect your health. One of my brother also has seizures, I'm prone to frequent migraines. I try to take breaks often, but I tend to forget. Perhaps it is best to consider alternatives until you can come back and grind later. Maybe you'll get lucky and get an atma during your time. But always think of your health first.

[Ampheni]

Haha... you should congratulate me for that, I finally got 1 atma from a fate today, and I have been doing fates for at least 5 hours a day if not 8... since the day atma was a thing. Let's see how long it's gonna take me to get the rest of them.