Beattle/rares Stelth Nerf ? or is it just me

[Deathu]

Been farming it yesterday and day before today it feels like there is a lot less there is also another mob you can farm in act 6(3 cruel) and that feels like its lower drops anyone experienced the same ?

[Deathu]

And now every time i go respawn at checkpoint it boots me from the zone... interesting.

[Machin Shin]

would not wonder.... streamers destroy everything...

[AirSniffer]

Currently the fastest way to reset is either UNEARTH beetle -> die -> instant respawn

Or

Kill beetle while it is FROZEN -> die -> instant respawn

Not sure what happened but for some reason if you unearth and choose to respawn manually the game goes to main menu,

If you're high level and have high HP try to unequip gear that has lightning res so the small bugs can kill you faster

[Lizzy]

Not having any crashes or problems respawning at the checkpoint but I ended up here for a reason; that being that it feels the drops got nerfed. Ngl, I wish they had addressed this sooner. I hate to admit it, but I spent the last 3 days farming the bug alongside my hubby (we found we get more loot when NOT partied.... sad.... the beetle helped us test this out rigorously and what a disappointment).

What I'd like to know is, with all the beetle farming vids out there, why they did not just make the rest of the game profitable enough to gear our characters with? They know about our beetle, they have known. They haven't fixed it because they don't have an answer for us, it feels like.

Until late mapping, even the best PoE players are suggesting this is the best thing you can do for yourself if you want to enjoy progression into the end game. But to GGG - really?

Sit in an old act and respawn a bug for hours on end - or just run around broke a$$, under geared, and not have any fun? It would be just swell if we could get drops in the normal fashion and the things our characters need to progress in a rational manner as we progress through the game.

But GGG hasn't made any changes to make people want to stop beetle farming and who can blame the players for this, when they've made their game so inaccessible and unrewarding? Yes, yes, yes... it's early access and they are "responding to feedback" but the currency "buffs" were not noticeable enough to get us off our beetles.

We can make more from killing a dozen or so beetles than we would make in several hours of "real" gameplay. I understand that in late mapping things get better but there should NOT be this utter void of rewards (gear, currency, crafting mats) from the Acts to Mid-tier Mapping.

And come on, if you want to nerf your failure beetle then don't shadow nerf it, you should OWN why you HAD TO NERF IT! OWN YOUR BUGGIES AND MISTAKES, GGG! The beetle infestation is of your own making, GGG. You can't just squash one bug when your house is infested, you have to get to the source - and the source is GGG itself and the lack of loot overall in the entire game (beetle treasure king aside!). Make the game rewarding, or see junk like this happen to your players... the infestation came right outta your studio not from us. We are just responding and trying to survive.