Mob Totems Are Utterly Appalling

Hi,

So, over the past few weeks, I've been trying to grind some mobs from ingredients. Before 1.20, you could throw down a mob totem and in 5 minutes, you could kill maybe a couple of hundred mobs. The totems would multiply the amount of mobs within its range and keep them spawning after they died.
Since 1.20, mob totems do absolutely nothing.

Yep. They are basically not worth using. I noticed it after 1.20 dropped and did some tests and maths.
(These numbers are based on a total of 40 totems being used and 40 5-minute grinds without totems)
Without a totem at Frozen Heights: Between 75-98 mobs spawned.
WITH a totem at Frozen Heights: 74 - 102 mobs spawned.

They don't work.
The range of mobs spawned is almost exactly the same.

I'm wondering if this is a massive bug or if it's been done on purpose (for some bizarre and stupid reason).

Anyway, I'm interested in what people make of this change and if anyone else has noticed this. I found it odd that no one else had made a thread about this so thought I'd get one going.

Hope you are all well and not wasting your time using totems! :)

 

I think you need to place them on a spawn point for them to work. It’s really stupid.

 

A spawn point? So I have to watch out for the exact block where a mob spawns and then place my totem there for it to have any effect?!
I agree, that's really stupid.

 

im not sure how spawn points work exactly, but the mob totem just has to have the spawn point in it's radius to work. but i do agree that they aren't as efficient as before, tried farming for a specific mob earlier and it took ten minutes to get what i needed. might just be a matter of spawn points changing in certain areas though

 

The spawn point thing was probably done on purpose to prevent mob totems from being able to be used for PMI (cause you can spawn new mobs with totems to make player made invasions worse) but I agree it is really stupid and if PMI is the reason then they should just make guard mobs better

 

Yeah I think that you need to spawn it somewhere specific, because it has a great spawnrate in the herb cave but in other areas, the spawnrate is terrible (I don't have a rank so this is from my observations). Try different areas in the heights and I think the spawnrate will be better

 

so glad now that i cant get false banned for pmi now unless i use grind mobs

 

I have noticed that mob totem spawn rates have been appalling lately. I wonder if it is because of hotfix #4. It said it fixed a bug where mob totems spawn too many mobs.

 

Maybe...
I guess their solution was to stop them from doing anything whilst they fix the problem? That could explain a lot xD

 

If I am correct, you need to aggro mobs first, and then throw the totem on them. The spawn rates can be very high. Hell, when I used them to gather Void Soul Essences for Panic Zealot, I thought they were really OP as I got 50ish of the ingredient within the five minutes of a single totem, where as gathering them is much slower without a totem.

 

That's what I was doing. But it didn't change the spawn rates.

 

In that case I don't know, maybe the totem just bugged for you or there's some mechanic I have no idea about?

 

I’m pretty sure someone told me (this could be completely wrong) that the number of players near the totem affect the effectiveness of the mob totem now. I presume this is to make the game slightly less P2W so players without a rank can grind too.

I’d try getting a friend to grind with you as well as apparently having 2 people near a totem instead of 1 boosts it a lot. If I’m completely wrong about this then I apologise lol