Special XP only map

I have a suggestion for a different map type which is designed solely for leveling purposes. Basically upon completion of the Gemlings Queens quest where she tells you about the Eternal Laboratory she also gives you a special rare map. This map has -100% quantity and starts as level 66. For each 1% quality it goes up 1 level, ergo at quality 1 its level 67, and at quality 20 its level 86. Normal currency can be used on the map to add affixes but instead of quantity it adds an XP bonus. This bonus would need to be tuned to not be to powerful... maybe cap at somewhere between 5-10% bonus XP. Using the map removes all quality and affixes from the map and returns it to the users inventory or stash. Another possible idea would be that to pick which map zone is used that it can be combined with another map in the map device to set the zone otherwise random zones are used.

What do yall think?

+1

Ive suggested virtually the same thing before, and in turn seen people suggest it before me. Always a +1 on this every time around.

I think my idea was to have maps and have a 'guide stone' or 'xp map' or whatever u want to call it of the same location available, youd craft it for increased xp via monster and affixes lvl and then it would wipe clean and return to your inv when activated. Same deal.

Maybe x amount of a given map + something else to a vendor gets you back one of these reusable xp maps of that location so you can build up a rotation of your favourite areas.

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DirkAustin wrote:

Can you guys wait for the rest of Act 3 and end of next year Act 4? leveling will be easier then because we get more areas which means more Monsters and higher lvl Monsters.

no, certainly not act4, and there is no certainty that adding of new areas will bring higher zones.


A way to level past the late 80s without using maps should have been added before act3x imo, they shuld never have let the game go ob without a way to level to 100, its essential, more so than the stupid acts that will be beaten in an hour or two.

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DirkAustin wrote:

Can you guys wait for the rest of Act 3 and end of next year Act 4? leveling will be easier then because we get more areas which means more Monsters and higher lvl Monsters.

Chris said that they will not increase level of the new areas that much instead they will balance by decreasing current levels of the areas and adding these as replacement or little above currently available level cap.

Sounds intriguing and something I'd go for.

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DirkAustin wrote:

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

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DirkAustin wrote:

Can you guys wait for the rest of Act 3 and end of next year Act 4? leveling will be easier then because we get more areas which means more Monsters and higher lvl Monsters.

no, certainly not act4, and there is no certainty that adding of new areas will bring higher zones.


A way to level past the late 80s without using maps should have been added before act3x imo, they shuld never have let the game go ob without a way to level to 100, its essential, more so than the stupid acts that will be beaten in an hour or two.

They planned it this way, that lvl 100 takes a very long time, we still have only 1 in SC and its working as intended.

This.

I'm not for this suggestion. It seems unnecessary.

As to the end of A3 and A4 I've always understood that we would loose a difficulty and all the levels be rebalanced around to compensate. The point of the XP map isnt to make it easier to get to 100 (though it would be) but to give us more end game options. Currently the only thing we have is a system where you almost never see high end maps which are limited due to item control which I get. This means you run the same maps over and over again or you run Lunaris constantly. That just gets boring. I would love to see new larger maps that was about playing this game and killing monsters. Freely available end game content. Im not so much worried about making it to 100... but getting to the mid to upper 80s should not be such a slog.

And that's what I'm saying. That's why this is unnecessary. It's unnecessary to add more end game options when the game isn't even finished yet.

Maps is a stop-gap measure. It's a temporary end game.

Until Act 3X and 4 get here, we have no idea what the final end game will be like for PoE. However, I don't think adding more maps to level up faster will make much of a difference. You are basically just asking for a map that you can consistently re-do for XP. Why? To level faster. For what purpose? No idea when there isn't level 80+ content to be had and the level 70+ content that exists relies on absurd mods and situations to be difficult.

It's just unnecessary. Be patient and wait for Act 3X and whatever GGG has in their mysterious magical hat for further content.