Guaranteed Trialmaster as a scarab should not be an option.

Trialmaster is tied to the ultimatum mechanic where players can luck into an encounter. This is beneficial for players who actually engage with the ultimatum mechanic to it's fullest.

I suspect that the new guaranteed trialmaster scarab was only introduced due to the 3.23 league challenges where you needed to defeat the trialmaster and most players didn't want to engage in ultimatum.

In 3.24, as a result of this change, Ultimatum Trialmaster rewards are no longer tied to Ultimatum, but to the mass farming of the guaranteed scarab.

So now Ultimatum has less rewards because the trialmaster rewards are tied to the value of the scarab which is tied to non ultimatum content.

ultimatum never had any rewards anyway. last league people only did it for challenge. now that there is no challenge i doubt people even care about ultimatum. i didnt even know there was this scarab

Ultimatum has less rewards?

It didn't feel rewarding even during 3.23. I put a lot of work into that league on my way to 40/40 and not once have I gotten anything good out of it.

Somehow I doubt adding a scarab that forces Trialmaster to spawn changed that content for the worst. If anything, it would likely deprecate the value of the catalysts since they'll be easier to farm.

Nice for those who want to target farm the trial master specific unique items.

Ultimatum finally feels worth doing, all thanks to scarabs. I think this is a good thing, because a lot of people pivoted away from running the mechanic in favor of alternative acquisition methods such as Demolition Heist contracts. Meanwhile, other forms of acquiring e.g. Fertile Catalysts have been nerfed by removing the div card from Hillock.

I think Ulti is in a good spot right now, personally.

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ArtCrusade wrote:

Ultimatum finally feels worth doing, all thanks to scarabs. I think this is a good thing, because a lot of people pivoted away from running the mechanic in favor of alternative acquisition methods such as Demolition Heist contracts. Meanwhile, other forms of acquiring e.g. Fertile Catalysts have been nerfed by removing the div card from Hillock.

I think Ulti is in a good spot right now, personally.

Skyforth is probably one of the people who has farmed ultimatum the most. If there's someone who has relevant feedback on the topic it's probably Skyforth.

Ultimatum is in a good spot right now except for the guaranteed Trialmaster. It takes away from people that are interacting with the mechanic as a whole. It's closer to bossing than running ultimatum.

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ArtCrusade wrote:

Ultimatum finally feels worth doing, all thanks to scarabs. I think this is a good thing, because a lot of people pivoted away from running the mechanic in favor of alternative acquisition methods such as Demolition Heist contracts. Meanwhile, other forms of acquiring e.g. Fertile Catalysts have been nerfed by removing the div card from Hillock.

I think Ulti is in a good spot right now, personally.

What i'm talking about is the fact that trialmaster is no longer a reward from ultimatum.

This is very odd off GGG to make it 100% chance to proc Trialmaster encounter when they design the game around dropping fragments and gating bosses behind it for access. And put them in T17 maps for Uber.

Clearly, No parallels here. One scarab and its ticket to the Trialmaster.

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ArtCrusade wrote:

Ultimatum finally feels worth doing, all thanks to scarabs. I think this is a good thing, because a lot of people pivoted away from running the mechanic in favor of alternative acquisition methods such as Demolition Heist contracts. Meanwhile, other forms of acquiring e.g. Fertile Catalysts have been nerfed by removing the div card from Hillock.

I think Ulti is in a good spot right now, personally.

+1

personally i dislike ultimatum. amongst all of the extra content available in poe currently, ultimatum is the one i hate the most.

BUT, imho it's in a good spot. it can be very rewarding to those who are strong enough to run em.