DreamyLu wrote: »

I had the - foolish - idea that when I will reach max level for scrying/excavating, it will become somewhat easier thanks to all the bonuses... I was soooooo wrong... Since I have maxed everything, when I scry, I'm able to catch 3 facets best case, once in a while 4.

My question: is there a method allowing to catch more than 4? Or is the only "trick" to be very fast at it (in that case, no way for me LOL)?

Scrying post max is honestly ridiculously easy. Only way to fail is if you are sloppy and make a mistake.

Basically, all scrying is the same. Take the long, straight rod-option. Pull one right up from the bottom. Then one from the main line up to one of the stars, then another, and the same with the two at the bottom. You will get like a pin with an X on it, sort of. Some variation for the hardest ones, where you might need to use just "normal" clicks to connect gaps.

Hm. Come to think of it, you might need to get all the passives, but that is hardly an issue. :-)

DreamyLu wrote: »

With reference to answer from @FrancisCrawford:
You say that the time by scrying is virtual like the time by excavating? I thought that this virtual concept of "time" is only by excavating? That could be my problem! So for scrying too, what matters is the amount of clicks we have available?

Exactly. You could start a scry, run off to the bathroom, go out for pizza, go for shopping and then come back and have lost no time at all. :-)

Edit - ahem, not counting the fact that you would get kicked out for inactivity of course, but that is not due to the scrying. ;-)

The annoying thing is, that as you level your scrying up, the supposedly "easier" scrys become tougher - i.e. the hexagons become smaller, the foci further apart, and more varieties of symbol appear to make it less likely that a large cluster will cover enough area. Green "simple" antiquities change to being of blue "intermediate" difficulty, first: and then eventually, both green and blue change to being of purple "advanced" difficulty - even though still coloured green and blue.

This does not make any sense to me, the fact that they get harder instead of easier as your skill gets higher.

(If you do them with another toon that has a lower antiquity skill, you will find it easier on that toon because they will retain their original difficulty level. This is even weirder.)

Purple "advanced", gold "master" and "ultimate" antiquities, and Orange "Mythic" (which are all of "master" difficulty) do not change.

So the result is that you pretty much *have* to invest more points into the actual Scrying skills. Coalescense is the one that will make the biggest difference, or at least, it did to me.