Personally, I have never used a rarity excluder potion on my pixpets before. Sure, having a better chance of getting a rare item is nice, but I thought even 4 voxels was too many to use on one potion, especially one that needs another potion to even work. I believe that SLVL and regular decoration/pixpet potions work just as well for finding rare items, even if you need to do a couple of tries.

I like the change that higher level pets can find more rare items. It gives more incentive to levelling up your pets rather than just getting a new one when the old one starts taking too long on hoards. However, I think that long hoard times are going to become an issue because high-level pets can find any rarity level. It would suck if you sent out a level 100 pet for 2 days and all they came back with was a plastic table.

The only major problem I have with this update is the Item Find Quantity changes. I am lucky that I have 2 rooms with 70 SLVL, so even if I don't receive any SLVL pats from people, I can still send out my pets and receive high-quality potion items. But if you are a new player or anyone that doesn't receive regular interactions or has little decoration items, the chances of finding good potion items has decreased greatly.

Say you have a room with 20 SLVL and have had no interactions, using the liquid turquoise example, you would receive 1-2 (8 x 0.2 = 1.6, round up or down?) liquid turquoise with a grade anywhere from 5 to 35 (20 - 15 = 5, 20 + 15 = 35). I think this is unfair because sending pixpets on hoards is already hard when you don't have a steady food supply of pumpkins. The smaller houses only have 1 pumpkin spot, so you'll need to decide whether to use those pumpkins for food or for potions. When you add in the fact that more people prefer to click eggs rather than interact with pets, this problem only gets worse.

I definitely think the hoarding mechanism needed an update, so I'm glad to see that it's actively being worked on. I look forward to the future of hoarding and hope that we can all come to some sort of agreement in the end. :)