Take a look at what Sirrian said on the Patch Notes, the bold part specifically:
The Vault
- During a Vault event there is an increased chance to encounter a Treasure Gnome (see below) in a battle
- The Vault also increases the chance of Treasure Gnomes dropping Vault keys allowing access to the Gnome Vault.
Gnomes & The Valraven
-Treasure Gnomes have a small chance to appear in most types of battles except for Guild Wars, Tutorials, Training Battles, and The Vault.
If defeated, Treasure Gnomes will drop a loot sack (visible when battling him), containing resources that are given at the end of battle.
Gnome Loot is not affected by Hero Bonuses
Treasure Gnomes also have a chance to drop a vault key, giving the player access to the Gnome Vault.
The Gnome Vault is accessed from the Games Menu and pits players against a team of Treasures Gnomes and the Gnome leader, Cedric Sparklesack.
Winning a Gnome Vault gives a lot of resource rewards as well as a chance to give a Gnome troop card, and a very small chance to give the Legendary Cedric Sparklesack troop card.
The Valraven functions much like a Gnome, but only has a chance to appear in Raid Boss, Invasion, and Bounty events
If defeated, the Valraven will give extra Sigils to continue battling in that event (Sigils given will only apply to the type of given it was encountered in, and will not carry over to the next event if unused).
Both the Treasure Gnome and Valraven have a new spell effect as part of their spell called ‘Run Away’. This allows them to run away from the battle, meaning their reward will be lost if they are not defeated quickly enough.
As you can see the spawn rate and drops are INTENDED to be increased and that was all based on the old spawn and drop rates (low spawn+better rewards). So why wouldn’t they do it now? Because you think your disbelief is more accurate than what was wrote on the patch notes?
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