[2021] Legion farming in New Vastir was gimped a lot by the Splinter changes

This is a cautionary tale for anyone who wants to farm Legion in New Vastir: The "Emblematic" notable passive (Timeless Splinters dropped in Areas have 1% to drop as Timeless Emblems instead) does a lot less than you might think.

In the 3.15 Patch, it was changed such that some Splinters from single sources are now grouped and drop as a stack instead of one by one. This mostly affects those dropped from Legion War Hoards and Generals. Before, these would be individually rolled for the Emblematic upgrade, each single Splinter having a 1% chance to be upgraded.

At the moment, each Stack of Splinters has just a 1% chance of being upgraded into a single Emblem. This means that if, for example, a General drops 8 stacked Splinters, the game rolls once for the stack and then replaces the entire stack with one Emblem (effectively deleting the 7 Splinters that would've been left over).

Not only does the game only roll once for the Stack instead of 8 times (once per Splinter), but you also lose 7 Splinters should the upgrade occur.

This is incredibly unintuitive and I've made a post on the Bug Report Forum a few days back, but so far no dice, which could mean that this is intended behavior. If so, it should really be specified in game somewhere.

Usually Emblematic just about doubles Splinter drops (counting an Emblem as 100 Splinters), but at the moment it loses more than 50% effectiveness, giving about 45% more total Splinters from my testing with Gilded Legion Scarabs. This bug very likely also occurs with the Emblematic Titanium Watchstone Prefix, so people farming in Glennach Cairns should also be careful.