The Last Word – Unquiet Atomos (09/25/2012)

[Bowen]

The Last Word - Unquiet Atomos (09/25/2012)

Kipih Jakkya here, bright-eyed and sharp-eared, bringing you another report on the entity known as Atomos.

Allow me to refresh your memory, dear reader, of the menace in question.
Atomos is the nightmarish creature that suddenly began appearing in the vicinity of the aetheryte camps. This horror, easily recognized by its massive maw, has the frightening tendency to manifest itself in midair without warning...and then just as mysteriously disappear. While present, the entity is often witnessed siphoning some manner of energy from the aetheryte, as well as summoning strange monsters to run rampant in the area.
The creatures called forth by Atomos have sown chaos and panic, their intrusions leaving many and more feeling harried and hunted. But they are not the focus of this article.

For Atomos itself has begun inflicting harm upon any who draw near. It seems this unpredictable and terrifying visitor is growing ever more dangerous.
But fear not, gentle reader, for all is not doom and calamity.
Though Atomos has proven impervious—oblivious, in fact—to anything thrown at it until now, it appears that the creature is beginning to sustain damage from ordinary blows. Scholars theorize that its presence on the material plane has solidified, thus allowing it to feel the effects of physical actions. There is much, however, that we still do not know about its true nature.

Yet despite the mysteries that remain unsolved, could this not mean that a determined force of adventurers could conceivably slay the floating invader? Such an endeavor would, naturally, be rife with danger, but if the attempt were to succeed...
If my words have inspired any heroes to confront Atomos, I beg that you do so with the greatest of caution. I will, as always, strive to bring the latest developments on this situation to light.

Till next time, may the Twelve watch over you and keep you safe.

Kipih Jakkya

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[radstar88]

Yet despite the mysteries that remain unsolved, could this not mean that a determined force of adventurers could conceivably slay the floating invader? Such an endeavor would, naturally, be rife with danger, but if the attempt were to succeed...

Imagine if on say the 1000th kill you won a prize?

[hrdndv]

I have been fighting Atmos for the last three days with astonishing little reward. Drop rate is only about 5 overaspected crystals per human day, though I got a cluster on the first day. The voidstone keeps giving nothing but anima and weird status effects. Really not fun anymore.

Also, these last three or four battles Atmos has gotten so tough that 30-40 players haven't been able to kill it. The above update says it is getting tougher but says it is vulnerable to physical attacks... not so. We were only able to get it down to 15-30% of it's hit points before it vanished.

All in all, Atmos is a waste of time now. SE really screwed up on this one.

[Babydoll]

Yeh...Atomos sucks now I was lucky and managed to do it the night it came out...oh SE why do you always do this lol xD

[Griss]

Yeh...Atomos sucks now I was lucky and managed to do it the night it came out...oh SE why do you always do this lol xD

Human nature. It's why we cant have nice things.

[Akujin]

Well, they could in theory have the last 10 days result in a massive epic scale battle free for all type of thing in Mor Dhona of the GC's and us fighting the Empire..and in the midst of that..have a MASSIVE Atomos spawn sending out deepvoid creatures to attack both sides. Possibly unlikely just due to the server strain that would cause, but a possabilty nontheless.

Honestly I stopped bothering, the lag is so tremendous that I got a few clusters, a few extra crystals (the buff is nice really) and a good amount of seals and went back to GW2. I just cant stand the lag in XIV anymore. I really hope all of that will be resolved come 2.0 and I can enjoy the game again, just as it is now. Meh.

[Mjollnir]

I have been fighting Atmos for the last three days with astonishing little reward. Drop rate is only about 5 overaspected crystals per human day, though I got a cluster on the first day. The voidstone keeps giving nothing but anima and weird status effects. Really not fun anymore.

Also, these last three or four battles Atmos has gotten so tough that 30-40 players haven't been able to kill it. The above update says it is getting tougher but says it is vulnerable to physical attacks... not so. We were only able to get it down to 15-30% of it's hit points before it vanished.

All in all, Atmos is a waste of time now. SE really screwed up on this one.

On Sargatanas? Weird, when I've been dropping by to replenish my Anima and pick up extra crystals in a half-hearted attempt to cap seals, I haven't seen Atomos fail to be killed.

You do know that you can check the Voidstone four times before it disappears? And head from Bluefog to Brittlebark to get a second kill (Atomos has usually moved West by the time you arrive). That's eight checks every hour. On average I've been getting 24 crystals each game day which is 6,000 seals. Sure, it's bad luck if you get 4x statuses, but it evens out over time - there are plenty of folk shouting that they got a 5/7/5/7.

If you're really having trouble, I was seeing shouts last night of folk at the event selling Crystals for 5k and they're 10k over at the Market Wards.

nb, you'll only get the cluster once.

[Matsume]

Why is this reporter talking about Atomos as if he just now became killable? Rather than speculating on wether or not a group of adventurers could currently concievably kill Atomos, shouldn't he be reporting the facts? Such as, groups of adventurers have been slaying Atomos non stop for over a week...

This article makes it seem like either our fellow reporter lives in a cave, is completely incompetent, or wrote this article two weeks ago and has thus become outdated.

This is really killing the games immersion.

[Colino]

Yeh...Atomos sucks now I was lucky and managed to do it the night it came out...oh SE why do you always do this lol xD

To be fair the event is lasting way too long. Had it been the usual 8-10 days like normal seasonal events it wouldn't have been this much of an issue.

Why is this reporter talking about Atomos as if he just now became killable? Rather than speculating on wether or not a group of adventurers could currently concievably kill Atomos, shouldn't he be reporting the facts? Such as, groups of adventurers have been slaying Atomos non stop for over a week...

The lodestone lore articles are always really late.

[Catapult]

immersion

No! Don't say it!
/runs for the hills