Quote Originally Posted by Noshpan View Post
It took me over 10 hours to farm the Atma of the Fish for one character of mine. For another character, he's still working on his a combined 24 hours of farming for the Atma that drops in Western Thanalan. This is not hyperbole. I actually spent 10 hours farming for a single Atma. I've had to take breaks from Atma farming in order to keep what remains of my sanity.

The RNG can provide swift results for some people, or the extreme opposite for others. And when the results are painfully slow, it just doesn't feel rewarding.

So while I'm not against RNG, I would not complain if they were to adjust the RNG to be less frustrating in the case of Atma.
I don't like references to "hours" spent farming. Your odds aren't on a per hour basis. They're on a per FATE one. How many FATES did you do? It took me 360 FATES for my 1st Atma weapon. Decided to work on a 2nd and I've been pretty lucky so far: 5 Atma in 40 FATES.

My point is just that maybe some of the people for whom it takes so many hours actually aren't very fast at getting from FATE to FATE. That could definitely skew the numbers. For me personally, it's never taken more than 5 hours for a single ATMA (it was about 150 FATES). The drop rate seems to be about 3% so if you were on average doing 10-20 FATEs an hour, it wouldn't take you more than 3 hours per ATMA or 36 hours for all 12.

These are just estimates and of course there might be outliers (heck I myself could be a lucky outlier) but regardless time spent is still irrelevant, it just makes fast FATE grinders seem "lucky" when in reality they might be getting to more FATEs. Anyway, whether or not this is an outrageous time investment is entirely subjective. My personal opinion is no but I admit I might feel differently if I was slow at running FATEs and it took me twice the amount of time.