A Digression on Difficulty

[Gnomish_Inquisition]

@GoldShark

I say it’s too expensive, people with 4k hours say it is not

i have more than 4k hours
it’s too expensive or rather the mechanic is to skewed for hyper long sessions and grind to be decently utilized in current form imo
Someone said it elsewhere

One Manticore Eye to have forever increased chance of pet suffix/affix in main campaign sounds too little price for the reward it provides.
On the other hand, paying 1 Manticore Eye for a 5 min run to farm certain boss and then reset the session to do it again is too much.
It’s really hard to say what the “fair” price is here.

altar isnt’ bad because ascendant mode, but ratios and because SR/Cruci is seemingly just more optimal still.
You’re paying for an “edge”, but barely “slightly”.
Ironically my gripe with Ascendant is regular MI drops overflow, not the real rewards we want could tone down one and increase the other perhaps, if base rates was increased also meant altar would have higher impact, altar not affecting SR then means MC gains more edge.