Quote Originally Posted by SDaemon View Post
The point of my post what to bring to your attention that atma farming is neither easy or difficult. It is just pure RNG. The two posts above showed that it can be done in a relatively low amount of time, however RNG shows that it can also take a relatively long amount of time. In your example you said that you can farm for a soldiery weapon in 3 weeks and that atma can be farmed in 3 weeks as well. The first most certainly holds true, but the atma part is not definite. You have no way of knowing. Therefore the soldiery option is the most reliable and 100% certain to be done in those 3 weeks. Really I just want to stress to you that atma farming is not easy or difficult, again its pure RNG.
And RNG also means the entire server never makes another Tier III materia again meaning no-one will ever get another relic. It's statistically unlikely, but possible. Just like putting in three weeks' worth of FATE farming and not getting a full Atma set.