u/ByeImDaisy

If you don't know, certain Ancients have 3 relic pools and pick 1 relic out of each to offer you but this isn't a universal thing, Nonu and Tanx just give you random relics, Darv mostly gives you random relics but has a 50% chance of giving you Dusty Tome.

Orobas, Vakuu, Pael and Tez all use the 3 pools system and it doesn't make sense to me for the most part. Tez is the only one that I fully understand, her pool 1 has purely positive effects, her pool 2 has downsides and her pool 3 has temporary relics. Orobas' pool 3 specifically is also fine because its relics change your starting gear. But I can't make sense of any of the other relic pools, they all feel like they've been chosen at random with no gameplay or thematic link between the relics in them, all they seem to do for the game is skew the relic odds in favour of the pools that contain less relics.

As a side note, I'm also not fond of some relics being made rarer than others even beyond the skewing that the pool system does, ever wondered why you never see Prismatic Gem? It's because it shares its relic spot with Sea Glass and if that spot is selected you have a 33.3% chance to get Prismatic gem, on top of being in Orobas' biggest relic pool, which all adds up to an 8.3% chance of getting it IF you roll Orobas as your act 2 Ancient, I don't understand why it has to be this way and it just hurts variety in my opinion, if it's a balancing issue and a certain Ancient relic is too good to be given the same odds as other Ancient relics then I feel like it would be better to balance that relic appropriately rather than make it unobtainable unless you godroll.