3.20 Balance Manifesto: Eldritch Altars

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CyberYeti wrote:

Sounds good to me. I pretty much ignored altars in corrupted t16s because they were too rippy and little reward, but I'll probably give them a shot this league.

Absolutely love the 3:1 scarab recipe. Really helps with challenges at the end of the league!

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Esubane wrote:

Rusted scarabs being in core drop pool AND a vendor recipe to upgrade them is a huge qol change. Yes GGG, scarabs shouldn't be scarce. Map juice overall should be much more accessible and cheaper. We need a good source of sextants because that was quite expensive in this league. Core drop (at low rate) and Tujen isn't enough.

I was farming maps with both keystones allocated but that came late in the league, when my character was strong enough to tackle this challenge. Dying here or there isn't a problem, but with both of those on already a difficult T16 map could easily run you into instant one-shot scenarios which would quickly deplete your portals. Balance between destroying stuff and being 1HKO'd is very thin in this game.

But I have one concern there - what about Eldrith Ichor currency?
Nothing about it in the manifesto and those nerfs will severely limit access to it. It is already very annoying to get exarch / eater implicits, ESPECIALLY if you want them at tier 2 or tier 1 (only accessible thorugh Orb of Conflict). I spent about 10 divines on eldrith currency to get my gloves with strike +2 targets - this is understandable, as this is a strong modifier. But I don't want this to become 100 divines.

You're reducing the number of influ packs AND taking away Wrath of the Cosmos currency generation entirely - please offset this somehow! Grand tier currency should be accessible and cheap.