Incense = useless?

Yep they are a complete waste of money.

Biome and crowded areas used to influence incense outcome. Absolutely no clue if this is still the case. I haven't used one for a while now.

I used mine during the triple xp/catch event while I had lucky eggs active. I'd imagine they would be of more use if one were to travel abroad with the intent of increasing the chance of seeing a regional-exclusive.

I agree that they have much less use compared to other items

Both Incense and Lures are a waste of money. My Clan did a community event for my town the weekend Zapados was set to leave and we lured up the entire park 14 pokestops for 2 straight hours. Nothing rare just the normal stuff. Only 1 2nd evolution appeared and it was a Pidgeotto we all screamed "PIDGEOTO" and everyone rushed over thats how bad and pathetic those lures were.

Yeah, incense is crap.

Lures are not that great. I have had one good experience with then outside of 6 hour lure events.

The nearby Hilton is known for lots and lots of Magikarps. Three of us went over for a few hours and collectively dropped about 50lures. We all caught a 100%, 97%, & 95% magikarp and one of us was luck my enough to walk away with 3 shinies. That said we only had good luck because it's a karp heavy location anyway, the lures magnified it. Probably 200-300 karps in a few hours plus some other stuff. We were also lucky enough to pick up a low level high IV Starmie.

So that's what 50 lures might get you if you were in the right spot. We only had so many because of the raid box sales.

I once popped a lure and then biked around a small 1/4 mile loop. As the pokemon appeared behind me I figured I would grab them on the next loop using my Go+. This was a failure because by the time you come around the loop they are gone.

Yes, the good things are very rare.

Yep, This item is shit.
Incense for Chineses usually for calling and praying for their ancestors where is something special.
Then why we use incense if pokemon will be appeared just shit level?

I actually like using incense when I know I'm gonna be driving locally for 30+ minutes. You get spawn about 1 per minute. 10 to 28 catches per incense.

Maybe for those of you who get spawns anyway it's useless - for us rurals it's essential, i.e., if you ever want to catch mon at the house. Even better, when I ride my bike I get one after another - and let the Plus catch them for me (unless it's something really good, I'll stop and catch it myself). And yes, I have gotten good stuff, including a Snorlax and larvitar in my own driveway (where absolutely NOTHING ever spawns otherwise). During special events, you also get event mon.

I don't use lures as much, rarely stay in one place long enough - except in one recent event, when it was raining buckets and the XP catch bonus was just too good to ignore - parked at a double stop, used incense and lures, and just raked in the XP.

So they have their usefulness (just not for everyone, I guess).

Looks like 18 Pokemon, 1,8 k dust, maybe 3kXP. Not great, indeed.
I do not buy incense, but if i get them for free, i use them, when walking with luremodules, lucky egg and Plus doing a mass evolution-session.