Just how rare is scintillant?

[John Limbus]

Spent hours today running missions with it in drop table and got none so far

[Orzeker]

Must have done 30 lvl 2 bounties, and i got 2, supposed to be a common reward, but i don't trust it.
I literally got more meso d5 which are uncommon, i even got more rare than scintillant.

[[Vilu]]

Apparently they are like wisps in Plains, but only in the isolation vault room (where you fight the mech). So look around there.

https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1217265-solving-the-scintillant-drama-once-and-for-all-guide/?tab=comments#comment-11793462

[DarkFenix]

Going advice is not to try using lvl 2 bounties for them, it may be a common reward, but it's one of five commons. Use lvl 1 bounties, it's a rare reward, but it's the only rare reward.

And as to your question, it's rare enough to demonstrate how inept DE are.

[Orzeker]

Originally posted by DarkFenix:

Going advice is not to try using lvl 2 bounties for them, it may be a common reward, but it's one of five commons. Use lvl 1 bounties, it's a rare reward, but it's the only rare reward.

And as to your question, it's rare enough to demonstrate how inept DE are.

Sure, but when in my case i've done easily 30 lvl 2 runs and only got 2 when i probably got 10+ of each other common rewards, i'm sure there's something wrong with the rates.

[Yggdrasil Burnes]

It's the exact same problem as Profit-Taker's loot table.

[[88th] ColPresumptuous]

Originally posted by Orzeker:

Sure, but when in my case i've done easily 30 lvl 2 runs and only got 2 when i probably got 10+ of each other common rewards, i'm sure there's something wrong with the rates.

Dont forget you dont just have common rewards either... so those rare and uncommon ones also compete for its chance to drop.

The fact you need so many of them and they take so long means someone didnt calculate things properly... hell any one noticed how White velocipods are every where yet the common so called common purples (or is it green) are rare as hell (unless thats just me thats had this issue).

And wait till you need to get to level 3 rep... 5 common Avhicaea.. COMMON... they have 2 spawn locations are tiny, yellow, incredibly weak so if a single enemy spots em they die instantly, and one location is seriously bugged with the majority of the spawns in that location appearing inside the Cerebrum Magnus 80% of the time... ive yet to see any spawn outside of using a lure, and of the 4 ive caught one ended up the rare one, which made me go 'argh'.

[No_Quarter]

it's a bottleneck for sure

[Ivara Ara]

Originally posted by 88th ColPresumptuous:

Originally posted by Orzeker:

Sure, but when in my case i've done easily 30 lvl 2 runs and only got 2 when i probably got 10+ of each other common rewards, i'm sure there's something wrong with the rates.

And wait till you need to get to level 3 rep... 5 common Avhicaea.. COMMON... they have 2 spawn locations are tiny, yellow, incredibly weak so if a single enemy spots em they die instantly, and one location is seriously bugged with the majority of the spawns in that location appearing inside the Cerebrum Magnus 80% of the time... ive yet to see any spawn outside of using a lure, and of the 4 ive caught one ended up the rare one, which made me go 'argh'.

Honestly man i would personally recommend you to just fly around in your archwing with the tranq out and listen to the beeps. I caught most of mine through that(though that medjay can bugger right off, got it on my LAST gland and last bit of standing).

[[DE]SpaceySarah]

Scintillant! We discussed it yesterday, and realized the Scintillant description was too vague in terms of other methods to acquire it and updated its description in a Hotfix.

Overnight, we ran stats and the amount collected was too low, which is widely accepted from the community to be the case. While we all start with baseline '0' for new Updates, this Resource is an outlier in how slowly it's being accrued, which is to say current pacing is not our intention. They should feel like a revised Cetus Wisp, but when we compared the two overnight, and considering more people are playing Heart of Deimos and how many Scintillant are needed, they were lower to a degree that doesn't make sense with their hookup.

We are getting a fix and (along with general Son Token rebalance) in for this today.

[Mio Rin]

I have more hen's teeth than scintillant...

[Orzeker]

Originally posted by DESpaceySarah:

Scintillant! We discussed it yesterday, and realized the Scintillant description was too vague in terms of other methods to acquire it and updated its description in a Hotfix.

Overnight, we ran stats and the amount collected was too low, which is widely accepted from the community to be the case. While we all start with baseline '0' for new Updates, this Resource is an outlier in how slowly it's being accrued, which is to say current pacing is not our intention. They should feel like a revised Cetus Wisp, but when we compared the two overnight, and considering more people are playing Heart of Deimos and how many Scintillant are needed, they were lower to a degree that doesn't make sense with their hookup.

We are getting a fix and (along with general Son Token rebalance) in for this today.

Great news, now you should probably look into thaumica/necrathene drop rate, because for some odd reason i have more embolos/xenorhast (rare minerals) which is really weird since you can only loot those 1 by 1.
I'm sure i'm not the only one who noticed that.

[WZ]

12-15 level 1 full bounties, 5 scintillants
don't bother with bounty 2 or searching vaults

[CCore]

Originally posted by Orzeker:

Originally posted by DESpaceySarah:

Scintillant! We discussed it yesterday, and realized the Scintillant description was too vague in terms of other methods to acquire it and updated its description in a Hotfix.

Overnight, we ran stats and the amount collected was too low, which is widely accepted from the community to be the case. While we all start with baseline '0' for new Updates, this Resource is an outlier in how slowly it's being accrued, which is to say current pacing is not our intention. They should feel like a revised Cetus Wisp, but when we compared the two overnight, and considering more people are playing Heart of Deimos and how many Scintillant are needed, they were lower to a degree that doesn't make sense with their hookup.

We are getting a fix and (along with general Son Token rebalance) in for this today.

Great news, now you should probably look into thaumica/necrathene drop rate, because for some odd reason i have more embolos/xenorhast (rare minerals) which is really weird since you can only loot those 1 by 1.
I'm sure i'm not the only one who noticed that.

Yep, i had a hard time getting thaumica for Xaku. Took me over an hour just to get enough, even though I assumed it was relatively common from the yellow ores. However it isn't, yet it still drops in high quantities when you mine it.

God I'm happy they're looking at scintillant though. I literally can't craft xaku cause I've only got 1 of the things, and no matter how many hours I run those bounties, I never got another