Volcano Map Needs Looked At

I agree with volcano being a really poor map in terms of overall size and the amount of mobs in it. rubbish map, I like the tile set, I like the boss, I just want the other half of my map please :D.

Come on now, dont be stingy guys this is one of the only bits of 2.0 area content that actually has any longevity for high level mappers, wheres the love?

yep it's too small, waste of time and money.

I like the map, actually. Mob density could be a bit higher, but its not that bad. But yeah, its rather small. It is larger than suggested in the opening post, usually it has two portals connecting areas in it, not sure what happened in case of the TO.

Phantasmagoria is even worse. It's a longer map, but most of the time there is no monsters, or a single monster popping up from eggsack or something - not really sure what's going on in there.

Anyway, both phantasmagoria and volcano are not really what a map should be like, the total amount of monsters in those maps is just too low. Especially volcano (since it is 77) is not really worth running yourself if you are able to sell it to some uninformed poor soul for the normal price of 77 (or even a chaos or two below that).

I've saved all my volcano maps, except a couple i tried out.

But as Char says, it's not THAT bad really.

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SjakaWaka wrote:

as for the 'overtuned bosses' i'd argue that allot of the old maps have 'undertuned bosses'.

they are not bosses they are pinata's

+1 the heck out of this

I still feel Mirage of Bones is slightly overtuned - actually really good difficulty-wise but with a tediously high amount of Life, so even after you prove you "get it" he takes forever to kill, less Life for Mirage would be great. BUT I would rather fight Mirage than the joke bosses of most other maps, where they are so easy there isn't even really a fight to comment on, might as well be nothing there except a random pile of loot.

The boss also needs a seperate room.

As it is now, you can simply offscreen him with skills where you dont aim the floor, just the direction. I.e. Fireball, Frenzy, SA etc..

OP got a really unlucky roll for the map layout. It's usually a bit better than this.

That said, I dont invest too much in Volcano. Chisel, alch, a few chaos, vaal and hope for a +1 map.

If you are really afraid to lose your map pool, it is a good candidate for ambush zana mod.

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Crackmonster wrote:

If you are really afraid to lose your map pool, it is a good candidate for ambush zana mod.

Speculation: but probably not now if they smoothed the path from 74-79. Might as well save those chaos orbs for the increasing number of 78/79 maps instead.