SSF - Divination cards rant

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Zrevnur a écrit :

Do you have a guesstimate about how many Harvest runs / card for 'The Hunger'?

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TheAnuhart a écrit :

Spoiler

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Zrevnur a écrit :

Do you have a guesstimate about how many Harvest runs / card for 'The Hunger'?

I can't say exactly but iirc in around 24 hours of farming the harvest quite casually on and off (popping in for an hour or two then going about my general mapping) produced something like.

8/9 The Hunger
20/12 The Hoarder
3/8 The Aesthete
1/8 The Offering
1 Exalted orb drop
1 Kaom's Heart drop
Other cards and shit like The Oath, Dooder Madness, chaos orbs, other currencies.

I only popped in the first time to get some chaos recipe items to substitute into regal recipes when playing primarily in 75+ maps. Clearing to Shavronne just on the chance she might drop her cards. While Shavronne isn't worth it (Scriptorium is 1,000 times better) I was intrigued when I dropped a Hoarder and a Hunger within a few runs.

Turns out that while you may well do several runs without seeing them, they are a lot higher drop than I expected and if you have other reasons to be there, it's kinda a good zone. As always, open boxes/clickables.

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raics a écrit :

I've target farmed some cards on a couple of occasions because stubborn, and it wasn't pretty.

Even if we disregard the drop rate, there are a few problems with the concept. Consistently farming one or two maps over and over is not really feasible without buying them, well, maybe if you shape your entire atlas around farming one item, which is a bit out there. The problem with farming non-map areas is twofold, drop penalty is one and the fact most campaign locations are godawful for farming is the other, hell, marketplace probably has twenty monsters in total, maybe thirty.

So yeah, best to forget about it unless you're already doing that area a lot for whatever reason. I think they did say back then they're 'adding a way to target farm certain items', it's exactly that on concept level so they didn't lie and some other games do use it that way, but the way it's implemented here it's just a market buff. So yeah, 'divination cards are a deterministic farming method' is not a lie, but 'we expect a random player will do it' would be balderdash.

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MajmuneGru a écrit :

Anyway, this system is deterministic, you can stop calling it the opposite.

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Cyzax a écrit :

Deterministic means I can say that if I do 'this' for 100 hours, then 'that' will happen.
You can't do that for divination cards. They're probabilistic, but not deterministic.

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Kaw a écrit :

I have been farming

. It drops in the fetid pool. After many hours I had 2 cards.

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I've come to realize that div cards weren't implemented for SSF/deterministic farming. They were implemented to clog your stash to get you to buy more tabs. Or, to buy a new, specialized tab. Look at leagues, there's some kind of new, item added to the game. Talismans, Essences The most recent is even worse because they removed the functionality from Zana, and turned it into stash clutter - league stones.