What is your Atma Drop Rate & Farming Method

[Valence]

Final tally for me:
63 CEs
127 FATEs
20 atmas

-> which makes it an overall 10.5% droprate both comprised.

I do not count the hours of fates I have tried in normal DT zones since I got no atma from there at all.

[Sunbird_Elf]

Sharing what I still know from my farming, I didn't note down exact numbers but this is how it went for me:

Tuesday: Farming Occult Crescent Fates and CEs from 1pm to 1am (with some breaks and also finishing up the zone story), also did a few fates to check the drop rate which dropped 2 Living Memory Atma, and ended up with 13 Atma iirc, one extra
Wednesday: Farming Occult Crescent Fates and CEs from 2pm to 6pm, at which point I only missed one Urqopacha Atma which I farmed with zone Fates until 7pm (maybe 20 Fates, lots of waiting for them to spawn)

I was not yet knowledge level 20 when I finished (I would have been if I didn't go for zone fate farming for the last Atma) and completed less than 50 Fates and CEs both since I got the achievements for both after my first relic. I had around 5 extra Atma iirc. I did approximately 40 of CEs and Fates each, so 80 in total for ~20 atma for 25% drop chance. At worst, my OC drop rate would be 98 (49/49 CEs/Fates) for 17 Atma, which would be a 17.34% drop rate, but I did get a few extra Atma from OC, so this is just a lowest estimate. As for shared Fates I did maybe 30 Fates for 3 Atma, so a 10% drop chance there. 40 Fates would make for a 7.5% drop chance, but I'm not sure how many I actually did, so those are just rough guesses. Overall I spent maybe 1 1/2 hours on Fates.

Compared to what I've heard and seen from other players and friends, this is an extremely high drop chance. I finished the grind ~33 hours after server maintenance was over, but I spent roughly 16~17 hours on it.

[Arohk]

Atma Drop rate seems heavily unbalanced



ill get the last one from fates now just to be done with this.

[Jeeqbit]

So far, after several days and having significantly more CEs and FATEs done, my rates are similar and unwavering:
19-22% from CEs
5-7% from FATEs

[Andevom]

I only went for three atmas in the DT zones, but my drop rate was about the same across both. Two dropped within 3 FATEs, while another took around 20.

It took at least 20 FATE/CEs in OC for me to see my first atma. Then I had a run of luck where I would get one in every five or so.

[Saraide]

Atma Drop rate seems heavily unbalanced



ill get the last one from fates now just to be done with this.

It's the critical engagement distribution that's unbalanced. One of the atmas only has a single CE that drops it, while all the others have multiple which all get spawned more often by the players.

[KageTokage]

I intend to master all of the phantom jobs *eventually* so I just grinded FATEs until there was only one color I needed still then finished the remainder outside so I could start dumping tomestones on weapons sooner.

[CCheshire]

I see everyone posting they farmed 5-7 hours a day, and here I am talking about farming 2 hrs max a day within OC since launch with multiple breaks. The longest time w/o an atma was 4 hrs then I went to bed.

11 Fates and 73 CE



I did get the Oracle job shard but still working on CAN after I maxed MNK so slow progress at KL 20.

[Allyissa]

I am starting to find once you get one of the Atmas of any colour, it seems a bit easier to get the rest. Is this just me or are others noticing this? I got two different coloured Atmas in OC and it seemed to be a bit easier to get the other two. Now I need to test that theory some more. For the orange Atmas it seemed to take a long time to get one. I have to test this later a bit after I do reset stuff. Although, Shaaloani is “Free Market” for me so read what you will.

[Arohk]

It's the critical engagement distribution that's unbalanced. One of the atmas only has a single CE that drops it, while all the others have multiple which all get spawned more often by the players.

actually not, all zones have about the same amount of fates and CE,

The Purple Atma has only one fate though (but 3 bossfights), and that very often died so fast that i couldnt land a hit on it.

i am not really sure why it was so uneven, perhaps just bad luck..