Thread: Atma drop rate Post-2.4 patch

Originally Posted by MasamuneBranford

People lose track of time. The original rate was definitely not 1%. Why? Because people think they are completing 50 fates per hour when in reality most people average 10. Yes 10. That's one fate completed every 6 minutes. Traveling from one fate to another will average you 2 minutes, factor in a couple minutes of actual fate time, waiting for new fates to pop, etc. - you average around 10-15 per hour tops.

The average person finished the atma phase in 20-30 hours. If you do the math - it roughly comes out to a 5% drop rate. If it were a 1% drop rate, this thing would be averaging 100 hours for everybody.

The new drop rate seems to be around 15-20%.

The original drop rate definitely was around about 1%. There was a lengthy post here on the forums collating data from many many players to get to that number. This is precisely why it was such a problem; 1% meant it was very possible to never see an atma crystal after weeks of farming...

By the sounds of it the new drop rate is more than substantial.

Still at the mercy of RNG - they can make it 80% drop rate and you can still hit a dry spell - just ask any experience crafter in this game about RNG and you'll understand that in this game, unless its literally 100%, your forever at the mercy of RNG.

A classic example is Steady Hands II with Hasty Touch, 80% chance to land the touch, yet every once in awhile you'll fail 5 straight at 80%. Just how this game dick's with you.

Someone in my FC got 8 atma yesterday. So I guess the rates have gone up significantly.

I finally got my 12th atma from my first FATE after patch. Where I had been spending the last month or so, semi AFK doing FATES if they would spawn on me. I would usually end up only doing 4-8 FATES a night.

Kind of off topic - But I noticed they raised the cost of books for the next part of the quest. My friends bought their books at 1,500Myth before patch and now they are 500Sold. When I Exchanged my myth for soldiery I got 500 Soldiery for my 2,000 Mythology so that's a 4 to 1 exchange rate, which means they upped the cost by 25% :/

Originally Posted by Enthy

I finally got my 12th atma from my first FATE after patch. Where I had been spending the last month or so, semi AFK doing FATES if they would spawn on me. I would usually end up only doing 4-8 FATES a night.

Kind of off topic - But I noticed they raised the cost of books for the next part of the quest. My friends bought their books at 1,500Myth before patch and now they are 500Sold. When I Exchanged my myth for soldiery I got 500 Soldiery for my 2,000 Mythology so that's a 4 to 1 exchange rate, which means they upped the cost by 25% :/

The conversion rate is funky. It should have been 50%. When you run roulettes and dungeons that used to give you 100 myth, they now give you 50 soldiery. So in actuality - books are a little cheaper. It's pretty much the equivalent if the book prices dropped from 1,500 myth to 1,000 myth.

Originally Posted by Enthy

Kind of off topic - But I noticed they raised the cost of books for the next part of the quest. My friends bought their books at 1,500Myth before patch and now they are 500Sold. When I Exchanged my myth for soldiery I got 500 Soldiery for my 2,000 Mythology so that's a 4 to 1 exchange rate, which means they upped the cost by 25% :/

They are cheaper than they were after 2.2
The soldiery duty reward is now like the myth duty reward was after 2.2. But the books have already cost 1500 myth after 2.2, so with only 500 sold after 2.4 it is cheaper.
Soldiery duty reward will increase again with 2.5, like it was with myth and 2.3

I have farmed all 12 Atma since patch hit, I would guess the drop rate is around 10% now. I kept track of how many fates I did and it came out to be 117 for 12 Atma.

Purely anecdotal evidence here, but I got the 7 Atma I was missing in the span of roughly 3 hours.

Probably..I got two of the same atmas while helping a friend in 30 minutes..