A bigger issue than delerium fog on every map in uber endgame farming.

As far as I can tell, there's been a few changes to how ritual tablets drop aside from the free one you get once completing your first ritual in endgame.

Theres a few things I believe to be true regarding this and i'll elaborate more on what the actual issue is. Firstly, it looks like ritual precursor tablets do NOT drop from ritual monsters in maps that you have juiced with a ritual tablet. It appears that ritual tablets ONLY drop from natural rituals found by randomly completing maps.

This creates a couple of problems and I do understand that not every precursor tablet is created equally. Maybe ritual tablets are meant to be more rare. The issue is that from an SSF perspective, you can target farm every other mechanic in the game. Breach, Expedition, Delerium and or Abyss. They all provide some sort of currency or benefit to character progression such as annoints, quality and recombinating or crafting. Ritual does provide a huge benefit in player progression once sufficient omens have been farmed. The issue is that its virtually impossible to target farm ritual right now.

The other issue is that if you are travelling around mapping with a particular atlas setup aimed at rarity and currency farming hoping to run into a ritual in hopes of dropping a ritual tablet. You might be better off having a different atlas setup in hopes of dropping that ritual tablet. Such as taking all the more monster packs and size nodes. Now at that point you may as well not use your good tablets while travelling because that would be sub-optimal and a bit of a waste if it results in you not being able to take all of the nodes that increase precursor and waystone effect. Its just a bit of a mess and the problem kind of creates more problems such as above.

Aside from the fact that you are pretty much gaurunteed not to get another ritual tablet from the 10 maps you've run with your first tablet. The higher tier rare omens are exceedingly rare and sometimes expensive and may not even be obtainable within 10 ritual maps. Maybe maybe not.

I know that its a different story for trade league as you can buy ritual tablets for 2-3 Div and those people who farm ritual do very well in terms of profit. However the same can't be said for people who play SSF, which is in most cases a true reflection of how the state of the game currently is in terms of balance throughout the campaign and into endgame.

So i just wanted to end this by asking a question to the devs and maybe fellow players can chime in with their own thoughts and answers to.

GGG is this situation an overlooked consequence of mid-league changes removing league mechanic icons from the atlas and/or changes made to map juicing/towers affecting the drop/no-drop situation of ritual tablets, depending on if it is a natural ritual or precursor tablet added ritual?

(sorry that question might be hard to digest, within context of the rest of the post I hope you can understand what i mean)

I started playing in a private league after 0.3.1, so fresh completely, it's HC trade but SSF in fact since nobody trade.
I got the first tablet for ritual at the start and just got one from a ritual map that i made using that first tablet.
Not too sure what is the exact mechanic back of it after all. Could be there was a ritual naturaly spawn already on that map but we cant know anymore.
(Edit: i holded on that 1st tablet until i could do T15 maps for better chance at good omens, not sure if that made a difference also)

The problem is before when completing a tower you could influence a lot of map around it, pretty much every single maps if doing the tower with 6 mods T15 waystone.
It was A LOT more than 10 for sure. So the amount of tablet where less a problem. You would need less of them.

I believe they just didnt made tablet drop rate better considering that.

I 100% agree it's anoying, i only play SSF normaly but got bored after 0.3.1 and wanted to try HC with some people i know.

Now i would wait because they said the end game will change a lot with 0.4 and it was the main focus. Let's see what they say the 4th, hopefully will make end game better again.