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ampdecay wrote:

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Chris wrote:

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fatmechanic wrote:

I used to feel that the loot system was the thing that bugged me the most about this game, but right about now its the map system. Its nearly impossible to progress up to the higher maps. Something really needs to be done quikly. But yeah, seems very good this coming .11 patch

I am very happy with the Map system (especially the difficulty to get and stay at high Maps), but I certainly feel that we need to find a solution for high-level experience gain. Maps are intended to be about high-level item acquisition instead. This is something we're working on, but changes to it may not be done in time for the first 0.11.0 release.

If your intention for higher level maps is indeed to only be useful for high-end item aquisition (and not for high end exp gain aswell), then i will point out one big flaw in that logic.
Getting to a lvl 77 map once is already costly enough in terms of currency, maintaining it for several map runs, much more so.
The best course of action therefore, is to get there ONCE (invest the currencies to get up to level 77 ONCE) and then take all of the white items that are high-end, out of that map and stash it.
Proceed to never enter a high level map again, because the amount of currencies that you would have to invest to get up there, is better spent on the white items you took from your first run, in order to craft the items.

Once you have the raw item type, you dont have to ever enter a high level map again to get that raw base type, thus there is absolutely no point to spend more currencies on trying to get up there, since even doing that map for 100 times in a row would probably not grant a rare that is any good.
In order to be able to run a 77 map 100 times, you will have to spend about 1000-2000 chaos orbs, probaby closer to 5000, but whatever.
I will argue that you can create great items with 1000-2000 chaos orbs by using them on the raw types.

Basically what im saying is that your whole argument is flawed, and you need to rethink your intentions with the map system.
No one does maps for highlvl item aquisition right now.
They are doing high lvl maps to get experience.
If you uncouple the experience gain from the map system by introducing an alternative, everyone will go there, and the glaring issues i just talked about will surface.
No one will ever do high lvl maps again, because they are pointless when it comes to item/wealth aquisition, stating the opposite is ridiculous and just shows that you guys at GGG dont actually play your own game.

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Chris wrote:

More party loot allocation options