It's not hard to get 10-15 astrals on a solo run
Wait, how? I regularly farm Omen on BLU (with TH1 trait) cleaving every single mob on the farming path and usually net 5-6 astrals per run. Your 10-15 is with main THF/high TH or am I missing something? Seems too good to be true.
I go thf main and keep my plunderer's armlets +3 on fulltime, and I have TH +1 on my taming sari so I can max it with just those two pieces and my job traits. I TH 8 the whole zone, with frequent TH 9 procs and the rare TH 10. I average about 10-12 detrius per run. Lowest runs are around 8 crystals, highest I've gotten in a run so far is 17. And yeah, anyone claiming they average 20+ is full of crap. I get a lot of 12 and 13 crystal runs, and even 14 and 15 aren't that uncommon, but beyond 15 is rare. I've never seen 20 yet, so that's an astronomically high yield if it ever happens.
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Much less TH, where there is zero indication you're actually getting 4 tiers properly besides what is said on your gear (that could be broken as well and you can't test it). More never hurts if it doesn't impede kill speed (it doesn't).
That's not true for thf main's. Treasure hunter can proc off melee swings, and when it does it displays in the chatlog clear as day what TH level the mob is up to. If treasure hunter increases from gear weren't working as intended we'd know immediately. Unless of course you're suggesting that TH would be broken to the point it just stopped working entirely despite advertising TH level X in the chatlog, but that would become apparent in droprates pretty quickly (you can literally see the difference in astral droprate after a full run or two for example).