Quote Originally Posted by 16bitBounty View Post
When are they faster? Took me a twice as long to do Animus as Atma and I did a book a day, Yesterday I did two books.
Before the last patch with a lot of myth tomes dropping easier, each book would take 2 or 3 days to do, farming myth tomes and then doing the book. This means over a month for the animus.

About atmas, in my case I used to have 1 or two atmas drop per week, twice I had 0 per week and twice 3 per week. (I did my daily roulettes for tomes and farmed atmas, not farmed atmas full time.) Friends doing atmas at the same time, more dedicated, were just a bit quicker. That's why I think atma drop has been increased. People don't spend months doing the atmas now.

Conclusion: now it is much quicker than it used to be, not only atmas but also animus. And Novus. Alexandrites are also much easier to get with the myth tomes that accumulate at high speed with hunts and roulettes, plus the daily expert roulette for the map. Materia prices are other thing for some classes.