Anima, yes this is....

[Veriden]

So, I sacked my zeta for one weapon thinking getting my second one b/c I was going to be too cheap to spend the 990 esos for my ilvl 200 dark knight. Turns out, I've spent over 36 hours grinding 2 zones. That's right, I'm at 3 lightning, 3 fire, and 1 ice...in 36 hours. I've been in countless fate parties filled with people who get their 3 crystals in a zone with in an hour to two hours.

Either there is a bug preventing people from getting a crystal some times or there needs to be a serious change in mechanics. Why not have the chance for a whole crystal be 5%(And people that say "the drop rate is 10% already" need a much better look into how percent actually works, as it is right now. Drop rate is less than 1%.) So rather than having nothing to show for in our efforts how about every fate provide 1 shard. For every 60 shards you trade in, you get 1 crystal. Yes, I'm fine doing 180-200 fates in an area.

[Yoohoo]

your doing better than me. your going rate is approx 5.14 hours per crystal. i'm at 8 so far with only 1 crystal. i sent them a message about it. they don't care, they simply said "sorry bout the inconvenience". basically your s.o.l. deal with it

[krazyrs]

still better then 2.2 atma drops

[Zophar]

still better then 2.2 atma drops

I'll second that. Even more so since you can farm on any job, with any weapon you want without even being 60.

[Veriden]

Poop being better than old poop is still poop.

[Blitzace]

still better then 2.2 atma drops

This right here, so many people in my FC kept complaining, I bluntly said. You should be thankfull you weren't doing the atma's when they first came out. i spend well over a week to get my first drop. Yes one single freaking drop.
Still have nightmares of that stupid stuff, was about to brake my desk when i saw i finally got the drop.(Out of excitement xP)

[Yoohoo]

original atma grind made me stop playing for awhile. made me that mad, i just had to walk away. lol i finally got some crystals but i'm not even half way for almost 15 hours of work

[Blitzace]

Strap yourself in for the 3rd part in that case.

[Aurelle_Delacroix]

It's honestly not that bad. I mean, to get a zeta these days is laughable. You could probably get the zeta done in ONE WEEK. And that's getting atma, doing books, getting novus, nexus, zodiac, and then zeta. Okay, well, maybe a week and a HALF. And then you skip the whole first stage. Some may argue that you could grind out the 18 crystals in a week and a half. But really that's up to preference.