Revert nerfs for scarabs (divination and cartography ones)

The power of those scarabs was arguably too big back when you could target farm them. But now that the rarity of scarabs increased substantially due to encountering significantly less betrayal encounters, I feel the nerf is unjustified.

Lets take cartography scarab: 50% more maps for gilded one. In an average map that doesn't include montrous treasure and 500% sextant (which is quite rare to get regardless), you get like 2-4 more t15-16 maps in a well rolled t16 map, which is quite underwhelming.

Same goes with divination, only that divination is significantly more dependent on RNG, which is why I think it should have its nerf reversed. You need to invest too much (in more than 1 map) to have consistent returns. I doubt anyone is going to bother with it.

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The power of those scarabs was arguably too big back when you could target farm them

Syndicate spawns quite frequently in Ossuary now. It's not targetfarming anymore like in Harbour Bridge League, however they spawn there alot. (~3-5 runs)

On another note:

One gilded sulphite scarab costs 1ex now in standard.
And in the current blue incursion league starts at around 30c - for now.
After the nerf they give 60% more sulphite.
Even tough deposits now should spawn in number of 3 (most times) i get the impression that delving with the lack/overpricing of scarbs, is getting more and more an area for players who like to look at ladder boards and not for those who enjoy the mechanic.

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I doubt anyone is going to bother with it

Yep.

I think gilded sulphite scarabs are in an okish place since it guarantees a niko spawn and you will always get 3 nodes now. It's quite decent if you want to rush some quick sulphite AND bypass the rng on a really high quantity map on which you wouldn't have the assurance it spawns otherwise.
So, as per sulphite gain, you not only include the 60% more sulphite, but also the fact that you get niko 5 times as often as usual if you spam them consistently (from 20% chance to spawn to 100% chance to spawn). Overall, it's still amazing

On the other hand, the cartography and divination scarabs are meh at best. The absurd rarity of the better cards (doctor, wolven king's bite, abandoned wealth etc.) doesn't help the divination one.

I don't agree with the nerfs the rewards were amazing because syndicate was hard and well they're not really hard in my cases but I've seen so many complaints about syndicate it's actually unreal.

See I didn't mind them being hard things SHOULD be able to kill you that's good that's dandy, The issue here is that the rewards suck ass now that's a big issue.

I'm in agreement with OP. Either the members need to be nerfed to reflect on their worsened rewards, or given their rarity from being added to core, have their scarab nerfs reversed.

I'm happy either way.

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I_NO a écrit :

I don't agree with the nerfs the rewards were amazing because syndicate was hard and well they're not really hard in my cases but I've seen so many complaints about syndicate it's actually unreal.

See I didn't mind them being hard things SHOULD be able to kill you that's good that's dandy, The issue here is that the rewards suck ass now that's a big issue.

I don't care about the difficulty. I just want my toy back (well, the whole of it).

Only a newcomer would request GGG to revert their nerfs lmao.

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IIPheXII a écrit :

Only a newcomer would request GGG to revert their nerfs lmao.

Yea, I know. It's almost hopeless. Never hurts to try though. Considering scarabs are so scarce this league and the fact that they're underwhelming, they may have to do something.

Yeah, I am in favor of this reverting. While felt the complaints about it being OP were right during the league, thinking ahead about after league I greatly disagreed.