What are these exiting Expedition "buffs"? Where are they?

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Many chests found in Expedition Logbook areas are now guaranteed to drop a rare item.

An additional source to waste my time wasting my scrolls and dispose that item back where i found it. So what? Should i feel exitement in that case? - Please explain why should i feel exited to get trashy tier affixes that are not worth to trade and and not worth to craft because of lacking crafting materials (these POWERFULL Omens are not really droppig as you promissed!!!) and Arohongui's Hoar now drops far more less currency.. like chance shards in form of Uniques that are not even worth to look at their stats just to dump it to a chance shard as usual...

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Various points of interest in Expedition Logbooks now have their own minimap icon.

Nice... but now somehow it happens that points are hidden behind a tree... -.- very frustrating when you know you have to rely on the map while placing a charge...

By the way: You did announce that Arohongui's Hoard will be more often on Lush Isle? At least you managed that it drops less interesting loot... so i can omit them now.. as they are not really appear to be in a higher number as told. They are now less interesting... therefore rarer... somehow...

Maybe i have to explain it to you: Rarity in our human history means that a majority of a group is interessted into some items that are valuable for them and make them exited to get to them. What you call rare is not close to that excitement it is more towards frustration when collecting trash that is labled rare and even these unidentifeid Tier 1-5 items get you exited. Trash is trash no matter what tier it is. And when there is something that might now be worth... then maybe it can be craftet to something better.. but when you have to spend a fortune like 10s-100s of hours to get the crafting mats or have the luck to get a perfect item for sell to get the crafting material before crafting and beeing damned by RNG.

And yes trading is somehow nice.. but it only works when you get a real response from the seller you want to buy that item from. Spending time for traders that do not respond is AGAIN wasting a lot of time... ban them to hell forever... or make an automated in game trade system for all items.

the hoard, they butchered it.

I can't find expedition log books... Devs need to make boughtable from vendirs!

Saved over 60 lush isle logbooks looking forward to the buffs.

Not even worth running now they've severely nerfed totems.

Yea it's so disappointing that they nerfed Logbooks.

Who cares about the trash gear rares?
Unearthing dozens of items that have crappy mods is blegh.
I mean a Twisted Domain run will get you better loot, maybe a breach ring or two that is worth something.

The only thing that made Logbooks worthwhile was the Hoard and currency drops from that.
With that nerfed, it's pointless.

Yep, hoards either got nerfed to hell or bugged with the patch. Logbooks now feel more full and fun, but somehow actually less rewarding overall. Hoards now drop 1-2 transmutes or an exalt if you're lucky, when they used to rain at least a few exalts.

Something not as obvious, and definitely anecdotal at best, but so far it feels like all the regular currency chests also drop significantly less. I need to test this more, but I'm scared to waste my good logbooks on testing in case this gets fixed.

GGG please fix in hotfix 2!

Played a hand full logbooks. There were a couple uniques that i hadn't seen before but loot overall was trash compared to maps. The hoards dropped like one bubblegum each.

Yeah, it's very dissapointing GGG that you inform people about buffs but keep quiet about the nerfs. After all the talk about making Logbooks better you "forgot" to mention the huge nert to the Hoard? Why?

If you think the Lush Isle Hoards were too generous and needed a nerf, that's fine. However nerfing them and not writing that in the patch notes is just bad manners...