Cartographer's Chisel speculation thread

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Mark_GGG wrote:

So long as you retain your spirit of exploration, surely you shall find your way out. This I believe.

Amazing idea Mark, my guess is you enter a special level under the condition of an empty bagpack, only with a map stone you found earlier.
You will find lots of goodies in there but no portal scrolls and can leave the area only after finding and applying all chisels to the map stone whcih opens a portal home.

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Stormscion wrote:

right click map item ( bottom left corner broken stone tablet )
opens portal
enter portal
random generated zone like maelstrom of chaos equal to your current level

Pre-generated zone (with some randomness, of course), more like an instance, with difficulty depending on map quality, where 20% is like maelstrom^2. There is a well-guarded treasure, at the end of each place

If there are 7 map fragments(as in Chris' sig) I think a nice idea would be to have an altar or something into which we can place the fragments. And the number and in which order the fragments are placed determines what kind of portal/map opens up for us. :-)


ps..still waiting for Chris to get back to me. :-(

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Chameleon wrote:

If there are 7 map fragments(as in Chris' sig)

There are at least 8 as the teaser pic has another design on the fragment and Chris's sig has 7 _runes_ =P

http://i.imgur.com/ry6Ya.jpg
http://pathofexile.com/public/chris/maps.png

Dunno why the "maps"/"runes" and their carving remind me a bit of the zodiac signs, so in other words they would be "star maps".

The items have not only quality but also rarity with is mentioned in the currency item. The question is then, what do the map do? And what mods it can have on white rarity versus blue/yellow rarity?

If it would open a portal to other map like torchlight the quality would somewhat make sense, better quality better area opens.
Though if the item have mods and rarity, what those could do to a portal opening item?

I would shot that i would work like D2 items that you keep in invetory, though Chris already said its not the case.
Though D2 items were "passive" mods ,what if those items are "active" mods?
Just like additional skills that dont need to be equiped into sockets.

Anyway... soon we will see.

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DasRoach wrote:

how many chisels would it take to allow us to never go anywhere near whimseyshire?

ROTFL

I'm at 88% download, can't wait to jump in and play this game. If it wasn't for D3 being so horrible, I might not have learned about this game in the forums.