Divination Cards Farmable? I think not.

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I_NO wrote:

I remember doing a full week of beta runs full for the Voll card.

7 days

Not a single card.

Not a single fucking card.

Well glad to know you wasted your time. You didn't need too. I wouldn't have any other choice.

You're glad that I wasted my time? Are you trying to incite me -.-

The hell lol

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Natharias wrote:

Do you even realize how hypocritical your post is?

My thread's title: Divination Cards Farmable? I think not.

What you posted:

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Boem wrote:

GGG stated specifically they could be farmed or traded for when they where released, read the divinition card post made by GGG.

The community assuming it was aimed at self-found players is just that, a faulty assumption which leads to trouble's when the realization is made that they where wrong.

Are you reading what you're posting?

Are divination cards farmable?

Yes they are.

your assumption is they would be farmable at a much greater speed.

It's fine if you consider the time investment to harsh/great, but they are farmable you can't deny that.
And the time investment bias is different for all persons.

There is no single "sweet spot" for the time investment/card ratio.

Peace,

-Boem-

edit :
From your OP

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Natharias wrote:

Divination Cards are not the farm-able thing you had declared they would be, GGG. There are too many different types of cards for the same areas and they barely drop.

GGG never made a declaration of what there projected time investment vs card is, they can't even do that since all cards have a different expected return ratio.

So your just posting personal bias and putting words in GGG's mouth.

they just stated they could be farmed. The end.

And that's exactly what they are.

I've yet to meet the individual who set out to find The Dark Mage card in cruel/merciless chambers of sins and actually find one; all the people who have it I contacted and they mentioned it just dropped due to them progressing...

I've farmed chambers of sins merciless over 50 times and it never dropped once (the summoner dropped once).

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Catchafire2000 wrote:

I've yet to meet the individual who set out to find The Dark Mage card in cruel/merciless chambers of sins and actually find one; all the people who have it I contacted and they mentioned it just dropped due to them progressing...

I've farmed chambers of sins merciless over 50 times and it never dropped once (the summoner dropped once).

Hi creator :P

The Gemcutter is farmable and I love it for that, was very nice in beta. Humility can also be farmed fairly well but maybe I just got lucky. It does however coincide with powerlevelling in a pack-rich zone.

Then there's the other side of the spectrum: I ran 50 corrupted zones (from fragments in map device) and got 1 cataclysm card. This is a 1/13 card, so that's about 600+ zones. All for a level 21 spell gem that could just as likely end up being immortal call, blood rage or smoke mine. You'd much quicker and easier level multiple gems to 20 and vaal them hoping for 21, which is also infinitely more likely to be the gem you actually want or need.

I guess you can say that any card to be called "farmable" it needs to actually be worth the time and effort farming. Like The Hermit, no one is going to want a lifesprig in cruel or merciless, nor spend the time finding 9 cards to get one when they can just trade for one that'll cost maybe an alch at best. Volls devotion you can at least say is a worthy prize for the time and effort.

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Boem wrote:

GGG never made a declaration of what there projected time investment vs card is, they can't even do that since all cards have a different expected return ratio.

So your just posting personal bias and putting words in GGG's mouth.

they just stated they could be farmed. The end.

And that's exactly what they are.

I'm going to tell you what farming is since you obviously don't know what it is.

Farming is the ability and action to do something repeatedly and/or regularly to achieve a desired outcome or at least one of many desired outcomes. It can also be done within a relatively short or quick time span, meaning that farming is a method for a player or players to work towards a goal and complete their task quickly enough that the time spent is worth the reward obtained.

Each instance of Harvest, ignoring the bosses, takes roughly six minutes for me to complete with a single projectile Incinerate. That means ~60 instances took me about 360 minutes, or 60 hours. Having obtained only a SINGLE card in sixty hours of gameplay, the card must be worth something far more than a single exalted orb. Yet it's not even worth one exalted orb. I need eleven more to get just one orb.

Try knowing what you're talking about before talking about it. GGG said we could farm it and it was meant for players to farm areas repeatedly and gain a reward for doing so. Doing a single area 50+ times and not getting a full reward is NOT farming and NOT rewarding.

Well, in that sense you can technically farm for it, there's just no reason to because it's horrible. Boem was being more semantic than anything, not like it matters though, cause it doesn't excuse the drop rates being so low that some div cards may as well not exist. For a feature that is exclusive to supporters putting in a grand, that's rough.

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Wooser69 wrote:

Well, in that sense you can technically farm for it, there's just no reason to because it's horrible. Boem was being more semantic than anything, not like it matters though, cause it doesn't excuse the drop rates being so low that some div cards may as well not exist. For a feature that is exclusive to supporters putting in a grand, that's rough.

Am I the only competent person here?

You can't "technically" farm for something if you can't farm for it.