This happens all the time here. A mechanic is put in or a class change is made that is absurd in relation to the rest of the game because the powers that be have a certain difficulty and player base in mind, the former of which appears to be constantly evolving. Honestly, it's just a symptom of an unfinished game in addition to us not knowing every detail of Their plans. This specific mechanic would be fine for level 100 stuff, but is annoying at 80 cap with a lower player base than they're designing around. I get it, farming up 500 large conches (for 50 max enchanted synths, sorta but not really guaranteed yellow) is nuts, you got the short end of the stick for now, you're just going to have to accept this and move on. Hopefully it gets revisited.

