Reliquary, Cartography, Divination, Shaper/Elder Scarabs

I have used polished version of these and not only I don't see any difference but sometimes I don't even get a single related drop on entire map. I don't know how you work the rng system but I tend to get more the less I invest on maps which is very discouraging to spend currency and fragments to "enhance" your loot experience when you don't see any real difference.

The only worthy scarabs (in some grade) are those which actually spawn something like breach, legion, perandus, beast, harbinger, sulphite and even torment scarabs being the ghosts ai so stupid that will 99% of time run away from rares or onto you so you accidentally kill them. But the other mentioned scarabs are pretty bad, even if you spend lots of currency to enhance rarity/quantity.

sad but +1

+1.

As Harvest stated, there is a general preference of deterministic results over randomic. Those scarabs you've mentioned do indeed increase the base drop of those specific rewards that many times... that is, if those rewards even drop in the first place.

I'd suggest a Synth Memory approach. Something like "Rare monsters have 1% chance to drop a Divination Cards", "Magic monsters have 100% increased chance to drop a Unique item", "Map Bosses drop 5 additional Elder items". This would make those items very powerful indeed and will be worth to use them in maps.

Unfortunately, they had a chance to go for this approach with the new Winged Scarabs from Harvest, and they wasted the opportunity. Perhaps they could reconsider.

While maping, I use 4 scarabs:
- rusted ambush
- rusted metamorph
- rusted harbinger
- polished perandus

These 4 are very cheap, they all give density for more map drops, chance to spawn delirium and sometimes so lucky stuff (like good Cadiro, divination box, lucky meta drop, good shards).

Stuff that adds higher chance to drop for smth is just to unreliable and not conisistent. If you run war among the stars, then puting elder or shaper scarab is not a bad idea, then you get like 2-3 full inventories of shaper/elder items from a single map. In the past I used to do ex recipe this way, with unind. shaper/elder sets (since bad bases doesn't sell anyway).

Well I guess I will save those scarabs when I get my hands on those types of maps. I have saved a couple of shaper/elder influenced maps. Never had one of those synth maps to drop though or is it just tiny chance of Zana right?
But yes, I normally have better experience using ambush, perandus, metamorph and breach or harbinger in my case for the density.

phew

they need a MASSIVE buff..

they are absolute worthless

Wait reminds me of something..

Oh 99.3% of the uniques.

Some scarabs are just on the level of plain cosmetic by usability. Maps especially. They even seems to punish map drops it seem.

I changed my mind, buffing wont be enough.

I think they need to redesign the entire scarabs like that.. buffing might not even do the trick since there could be potential league mechanics such as heist fighting for map drops.