14 Hour Atma Challenge and Echo Challenge

[Nikorayu]

What happened to the old translator?

He got hired by SE.

[Kalandros]

Is anyone tracking in what order he is going for the ATMA?

Also at what real-world times is it being completed?
Japanese atma theory: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...arming_theory/
Is that atmas have better drop rate at certain times

[HumsterMKX]

Also at what real-world times is it being completed?
Japanese atma theory: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...arming_theory/
Is that atmas have better drop rate at certain times

Its not true. Yoshi already said so.

[rwyan]

Also at what real-world times is it being completed?
Japanese atma theory: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...arming_theory/
Is that atmas have better drop rate at certain times

I'm interested to see, because I found some interesting things in my own ATMA hunting efforts. My findings don't support any time-based theory but it would support the idea that there is an efficient order to hunt for them (assuming either the same across all jobs or different depending on job/race/grand company/etc...).

[StateAlchemist]

I don't care if they get all 12 atma in 30 minutes. The point is after 100+ hours of farming over the last 3 weeks all I have to show for it is one more atma, which puts me at 7/12 for my FIRST weapon... I still have 3 other Zeniths waiting to be upgraded after BLM AND I need a set for NINJA. Not to mention they are releasing the next step in the zodiac weapon quest line in 2.38 which is one month away? How in the holy f**k am I supposed to get 5 sets of atma in one month????

Luck based endgame progression? Bullsh*t. I've done 300+ fates in just East Shorud alone without an atma drop. Screw anyone who gets super lucky and screw SE for ever implementing this garbage system the way it is now.

[HumsterMKX]

I don't care if they get all 12 atma in 30 minutes. The point is after 100+ hours of farming over the last 3 weeks all I have to show for it is one....

You need to go into hiding now. I can hear the galloping White Knights heading your way.

[Dashuto]

Let them come.

Have an FC mate who has been trying to get Upper La Noscea Atma (normally an easy one) for over 2 weeks. Some of us have shown up and helped get the fates faster. There was an instance we had where one person was in South Than for 3 weeks. During this one of our LS members showed up to help this person. The helper got the atma /THREE TIMES/ in the afternoon they helped, and the luckless person was still in for a long haul. Its just ridiculous.

[Fendred]

Can I just say I feel sorry for anyone doing this challenge? Given that doing fates for over two hours is mind-numbing, I can't imagine what it must be like for people trying to do that for fourteen hours. Or is the entire point of the marathon to watch the maratonees squirm? That's a form of entertainment, too, I guess.

[StateAlchemist]

Have an FC mate who has been trying to get Upper La Noscea Atma (normally an easy one) for over 2 weeks. Some of us have shown up and helped get the fates faster. There was an instance we had where one person was in South Than for 3 weeks. During this one of our LS members showed up to help this person. The helper got the atma /THREE TIMES/ in the afternoon they helped, and the luckless person was still in for a long haul. Its just ridiculous.

And that's a perfect example of the crap I am talking about. In the time I have been farming for my first set, one of my FC members has gotten 3 sets and already is working on novus on two of those now...meanwhile, I am sitting here still f***ed regardless of how much time i put into the game.

[Rjain]

And that's a perfect example of the crap I am talking about. In the time I have been farming for my first set, one of my FC members has gotten 3 sets and already is working on novus on two of those now...meanwhile, I am sitting here still f***ed regardless of how much time i put into the game.

Looking at your achievements, you achieved 300 FATEs back in November and have yet to achieve the 1,000 FATE achievement in the 9 months between then and now. That makes me highly doubt you "doing 300+ FATEs in North Shroud". I see people constantly complaining that they do "hundreds/thousands of FATEs and see no atma" and realistically they might have done 30-50 at absolute max.

While RNG can suck, there is a ridiculous amount of exaggeration in the community. Most people saying "I am spending hundreds of hours doing this" probably spent a fraction of the time those who achieved 12 atma did.