ultimatum scarab of bribing does not fulfill its function

I am an ultimatum farmer, and since today I noticed that the rewards do not change if I use the scarab of bribing or not, I want to believe that it is a problem with the scarab and not a shadow nerf since it is very noticeable in more than 100 maps with or without scarab the rewards are proportionally similar, without any type of increase in their rarity, before today the mechanics were very satisfactory since the start of the league

Yeah I've been using this scarab and don't notice any "additional" rewards

I'm observing similar results. Rewards became dramatically lower since last patch. Haven't run w/o the scarab so I can't tell if its an overall undocumented nerf or the scarabs & atlas passive is no longer working.

The wording on the scarab is misleading. You don't get additional rewards. You get rewards sooner than they would normally appear. Unless you run Ultimatum quite a lot with and without the rewards sooner, it's really hard to notice, but there is a difference.

I don't have exact examples from my testing with just the notable in Affliction, but say you get 3-5 Prismatic Catalysts in Round 7 normally, using 2 of those scarabs plus the 2 on the tree makes it the equivalent of round 13, where it might be a stack of 7-11 Prismatic Catalysts. Or if Divine Orbs only show up in round 7, now they can show up as early as round 1 with even larger stacks in later rounds.

I think it is still very much worth using in the long run as long as you can consistently complete the Ultimatums.