Season 26 have been the worst season ever. On paper it sounded great, but the fact that this seasons theme was more rare than a primal ancient item dropping it was a season theme that was not present.
Also the special greater rift added, i have seen that only once the hole season. And only got 5 keys doing this season aswell doing only greater rifts.
So the hole idea of this season got lost in not showing up in the game.
My concern is that season 27 will be the same with a theme that’s only good on paper and not present in the game. And why this season moves to non season i don’t get. We don’t play non season. And add a thing that is not actual really in the game to begin with is just odd.
You have in the latest patch notes said the xp are lowered aswell, like what does it matter when it’s almost not in the game lol. You might aswell just remove it again or raise the drop rate of keys by at least 50% so we actual get some keys.
To sum it up. I hope this season will actual be in the game to all players and not just a thing we read about like current season is. Season 26 was just like none season play to me beside the 5 keys i got. I did even write how rare it was, but noting was done about it. Please do a lot better this season…
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I haven’t tested anything yet, so this is pure conjecture, but I guess the drop rate of season 27 consumables will be somewhere between ethereal and soul shards drop rate which is not that bad. The will probably drop everywhere (chests, normal rifts,vault) not just from greater rift guardians. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to make them a little bit more rare, nor would I personally mind, cause the do seem pretty powerful. It remains to be seen but I have high expectations of season 27. Sounds really promising.
They do seem pretty powerful, but you will need a lot if they do not auto roll as ancients as it seems to be the case to get a real good and powerful one, unless real lucky. Power is also limited by fact you can only use one per character. So seems will be fun as long as drop rate is reasonable, especially if you do not mind playing more as one char in season.
Besides those keys dropped enough for 4 man groups EN XP had to be nerfed, since it became a problem for them EN became the way to play the game for the over efficient oriented players … (Again a blanket nerf instead of solving the problem where it was).
Not easy to manage correct drop rates over whole game where you give artificial extra boosts to one group of players that also already have efficiency boosts of playing in a group and then not have too low drop rates at other end spectrum especially when RNG is a part as well and not everyone plays 4-5 hours a day or more. 
This might play out here as well again. Over saturated at 4 players group meta and a bit too rare at solo level or 2 man groups if do not play enough hours if devs are not very careful.
Personally I have still got 10 keys in my stash and used some augments on other builds as well, but got to about 1750 paragon purely playing solo this season, so might have put in a few more hours as expected this season since I kinda enjoyed playing Inna up to a point and then played around a bit with a frenzy barb and a HC frenzy one when it was clear all reasonable progress was done since no extra amount of paragon I could reasonably get would have made the build I played much stronger or feel any meaningfull progress while playing solo).
Concerns about droprate of the dust theme material. Wudijo mentioned that he got 1 dust consumable per 10 GRs. I think such would be much to low droprate. There is nothing you could do with it just use it to get the item with the roll you want. If it takes 5 times, just imagine, to make the stats right on this one item, then it would mean first run about 50 times a greater rift so you could make one item.
Well I think this sounds poor. Do not make same bs from actual season and the cry portal keys. THink the more items with sad, bad, low droprate we get, the bigger is RNG becoming. And you also want legendaries or better primals, what also are rare and not to get with each run.
This is not D2R, this is D3 and fun droprate.
Please make dust fall, like the dust at my table.