Killing Atomos, Just my server or?....

[Angelas]

The Japanese actually know how to work as a team to finish this thing off.

The trick is to have a few crafters stunning Atomos right before his huge magic burst when he glows red. If you can get a decent stun rotation going he can be finished off quite easily. When my friend and I went during NA prime time to get some anima in between a Garuda run we noticed that there were enough players and no crafters. We proceeded to switch over to a crafting class and pretty much sealed the win for the people who were there. Atomos is useless if his burst attack is stunned. If you let him shoot that thing off you'll spend more time dead than alive and most will give up.

The only difference between now and then is that people actually have to work for it, which means that very little people will actually do it because the FFXIV community is chock full of the laziest group of players I have ever seen. If you take the initiative and start coordinating you can get it done! Good luck!

I noticed this too earlier tonight.. however it seems no one wants to invite and heal crafters.. and since we cant take hits from his minions its a lost cause

[Mikita]

I noticed this too earlier tonight.. however it seems no one wants to invite and heal crafters.. and since we cant take hits from his minions its a lost cause

Even among Japanese players (unless friends or within the same LS) very few people form parties for fighting Atomos. Yet we have quite a few crafters throwing rocks at him.

If there are enough people around you can stand in the middle of a large group and should be largely safe from his minions.

You could also buff yourself before the fight then switch to crafter.

And since crafting stats don't matter, you can wear high defense gear (Lv 50 GC garb for instance) for better survivability.

But ultimately, you just need a lot of people there to do this fight otherwise it's kind of hopeless.

[Quesse]

On Hyperion, depending which prime time.

EU and NA prime time, no chance to kill it. (best 50% hp down)
JP prime time, chain 2 at 3 atomos.

just EU and NA players are not enough on the fight.

Same on Sargatanas

[Breladine]

I never see anyone killing him anymore on Ragnarok, at least not during my primetime which is PST evenings.

[Issachar]

Ignore the trolls and bronies, OP. Their opinion is worth about as much as dust in the wind.

The reason people did Atomos initially was to cap out seals and buy GC items. Then they nerfed it so you got crystals instead, which people slaved over to sell for pretty good gil (I know I did). Then it got nerfed -again- and the effort to income ratio dropped and people lost interest.

Basically, people are shallow money-hoarders ingame and don't do content when it doesn't fluff their pockets. XI people did the same. "Content for fun? What's this 'fun' you speak of? I only know epeen and profit." sums it up nicely.

And what few people you DO see out there are just waiting for others to kill it. Mostly JPs do this.

[Crevox]

Just go there at JP time and you should be able to get enough people as long as your server is active.

[Majidah]

they nerfed the shit out of atomos drops.

people needed 1-3 weapons. they got them already.

I doubt most people got all items available, but they at least got what they needed.
So farming atomos after the fixes is hard work for something you don't need.

[Angelas]

Atomos right now on my server.. less than 15 people here... died 2 times already just going to the camp

[Sophia]

There is some activity on Masasume at JP prime time apart from that it's very quiet

[Mikita]

Hm... It seems that now JP prime time is the only period Atomos is doable on many servers.

In ARR when we have regional servers, I wonder how the non-JP servers will fare?
Will the community become large enough and cooperative enough to make these sorts of events possible?