Please improve magic pots in Occult Crescent

[jadeharley]

I'm normally not the sort of person to complain, but the magic pots in OC have me feeling a bit frustrated.

Issue 1: The pot following rate is simply too low. Today I cleared around 12 pot fates with golden credit and received zero magic pot companions.
Issue 2: The spawn time for the pot fates is quite low. They appear to pop around every 20 minutes, compared to the Eureka equivalent which seem like they never are down, outside of when someone has an active bunny.

With the low spawn rate and low follow rate combined, earning the achievements would take months of hardcore nonstop grinding, with the rewards being a bit underwhelming. I actually do like grinding in Occult Crescent, I just feel the rates on this particular mechanic are detrimentally low. My ideal solution is for pot companions to be guaranteed, and to increase the spawn frequency to at least one pot fate per 10 minutes.

[Ryaze]

1. Pot FATEs can only grant a maximum of 20 pot followers. I'm sure that's essentially what you're seeing. Not that the rate of granting a follower is low, but there's just too many players doing pot FATEs compared to the maximum allotment of pots.
2. They spawn exactly 30 minutes from the prior spawn.

But yes, both issues are pretty awful, especially in light of achievements, fortune carrot drop rates, and pots being one of the better ways of getting gold and silver.

[ServerCollaps]

the first 20 people that tag the fate and get gold credit get a pot. If you are late every time, you will never get a pot (unless less than 20 people did the fate)
it also spawns exactly every 30 mins, no matter the killtime (the 1st time 10 mins after the instance got created, then 40, 70, 100 mins after and so on)

you can try to instance hop to get more pot fates

[Asari5]

well then they should make it a pot for EVERYBODY who earned gold. that would have been logical from the start. problem solved. no questionmaeks anymore why you dont get a pot

[CCheshire]

I usually just never follow the pots since the few times I did I died from climbing the enormous tower on the far left of the map often.

I feel like the OC achievements exist for filler and no real purpose other than to show others you have over 2b wasted on fate carrots for the title.

[hydralus]

I usually just never follow the pots since the few times I did I died from climbing the enormous tower on the far left of the map often.

I feel like the OC achievements exist for filler and no real purpose other than to show others you have over 2b wasted on fate carrots for the title.

Interesting. This begs the question of which achievements exist which have a purpose other than being filler.

[Hyperia]

Pot spawn rates are terribly low, during my relic grind, I only saw a handful of them at best and that was with me in there for weeks. I saw more FT windows than pot fates.

[Appleboops]

The only time I've ever failed to nab a pot is when I've been rushing to it after it already spawned, and so of course by the time I get there many other people have already started and gained emnity for the FATE, or sometimes when I'm alone without a party. As people already said, only 20 pots get handed out, so being late almost guarantees you won't get one.

The exception is if you are in a party and you have party members who are there early, in which case showing up late and getting at least a single hit on one of the enemies will give you a better chance, since you get grouped in with your teammates.

That said, even playing solo I've managed to get plenty of pots so long as I camp out the spawn point a few minutes before it shows up, and then hyper spam all my skills (aoe if possible at the beginning), rack up as much damage as humanly possible in that time. If you're in a party and have a least a few other memebers at the pot spawn before it pops up, that's even better and can almost guarantee you a pot. I've never missed a pot when I've been properly partied up and camped at the Pots spawn point when it appears.

[CCheshire]

Interesting. This begs the question of which achievements exist which have a purpose other than being filler.

Typically, I skip them in all games, but the 2k mentor mount is what I consider worthy to me since I can do it over a long time grind and it's a fun new mount reward vs a title or re-colored robot suit is boring.

[hydralus]

Typically, I skip them in all games, but the 2k mentor mount is what I consider worthy to me since I can do it over a long time grind and it's a fun new mount reward vs a title or re-colored robot suit is boring.

So the reward at the end of the grind determines whether it's filler or not?