When did Players not like Sextants?

I've read it a few times and I'm curious. Was it when they added the additional Tier? When they made them far more rare? When they were plentiful? I found them fairly useful if a bit tedious.

Towers were functioning as a 'potentially' better Sextant system. So I guess I'm just curious when players decided they didn't like it and why they wouldn't want an improved version.

I always thought the 'favorited map' feature was stupid so maybe I'm just a different type of player. Spamming Mephisto and Baal was the worst of D2 so I refuse to map spam also.

I seriously doubt players enjoy putting 4 things in a map device every run.
This seems worse in pretty much every way so I don't get it.

The entire time. People disliked sextants the entire time.

I am curious too actually, what was wrong about them?
I played with sextants, it didn't feel that horrendous: you apply them, they add bonuses to your map, that's it.

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Xzorn#7046 wrote:

I seriously doubt players enjoy putting 4 things in a map device every run.
This seems worse in pretty much every way so I don't get it.

you dont need to do it every run. you can put 20 of each scarab that will last 20 maps

sextants you had to replace after every 3 or 4 maps. rolling them yourself was a pain so you had to buy them off trade.; it was pretty much mandatory, unless you want to roll 100 times to get what you want

scarabs are just way better