Have you de creased the spawn rate for the rift? you said shadow hunter has been increased, yet it seems to be the same, better yet worse.
I did a lot of runs before this update, & it never took longer than 10 mins, it could vary from 1-3 to 6 mins consistently.
After this update I was with a full team, we where doing the usual, farming for over 45mins, and not a single portal opened up, this was with shadow essence. We went through maps, and remakes, and only one showed up after 45 mins, I tried this again And took another 30 mins, that seems like something's been changed, have you decreased the spawn rate? For those on shadow essence? Or without elix? Because it is terribly bad, and needs the spawn rate increased, this is an 85 campaign, 85's are trying to get into and farm, yet they're wasting thrashers, 100's of plats for what, 1-2 maybe 3 rifts showing up? Put it back to the way it was, or scrap this "rift" idea, and make another normal campaign.
And on top of this it's not just not harder to find, you made it harder to to get friends into the portal having only 30 seconds.
Or maybe an idea like this you may be familiar with, Make an elite version of overlord, just buff the enemies and allow them to drop better and also with 85 items
AL: Jiig PL: Jig 80
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