Current Map drop is a Joke

What's bs about that?

The problem is still rng based progression sucks. The game is released now and we still appear to be no closer to an alternative to maps. Sustaining a high level map pool is so much harder to do solo as well.

In fact I dare say we took a step backwards, lunaris got downgraded to 66 and the new areas don't seem very good for farming. The experience change didn't do anything meaningful. They took away some high level uniques from non-map areas.

Why can't we get an endless ledge/dungeon/whatever that goes up to 79, with item level capped at 70 or so?

my 2 alt shards anyway

Not RNG problem. A lot of people complain they are out of maps. GGG managed to fuck it up with IIQ changes. Dunno how and why, but decreased IQ affected map drops. For ex. champs just refuse to drop maps. Now you can get more maps from chests, than from mobs. I stopped rolling magic/maze as there's no point anymore. High IIQ with shitty mods now works better.

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torturo wrote:

Not RNG problem. A lot of people complain they are out of maps. GGG managed to fuck it up with IIQ changes. Dunno how and why, but decreased IQ affected map drops. For ex. champs just refuse to drop maps. Now you can get more maps from chests, than from mobs. I stopped rolling magic/maze as there's no point anymore. High IIQ with shitty mods now works better.

Your last sentence makes it sound like they fixed the map system

Could be, I'm up to it if it's intentional. The problem is, if this is the case, that now they combine a more severe currency sink with well known RNG bitch. Sounds too much for me. Especially according to HL maps. Now you have to alch even low lvl maps btw, transmute/alt doesn't serve well.
IMO it's just a technical mistake.
P.S. Also I can't see orb drops increased much, to support maps properly. At least increase chissel drops, sadists.

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torturo wrote:

Not RNG problem. A lot of people complain they are out of maps.

there you have it. i also got many friends who complain about it. that means there MUST be a change to this because sustaining a mappool was possible before. hard but possible. now its like lotto because you roll high IIQ and chisel it but get almost nothing or only lowlevels that cant be intendend. im rolling every map to high IIQ and chiseling them but im still running out of maps that i have to buy maps from others.

The funny thing was, he made a comment along the lines of "We want the highest maps to be special, so we limit the players access because if they could run them 24/7 they would get bored of it instead of it being exciting."

Well, guess what? If 73-77 maps would bore me, what do you think 66-70 maps do?

Honestly, between the lowering of Act 3 (Lunaris went down 2 levels and a few other areas like the Docks were hit, too) and the map nonsense, I probably will take a break until there is some actual end-game stuff to do. My characters are like all in the 80s now, with a bunch 75+, and I'm not going to play 66-70 maps for next 4 months.

On topic, I've ran probably 10 maps this week and found maybe 2 or 3. I definitely was having the same feeling as the OP that the map drop rates got fucked even worse. Think I ran four maps in a row without a map and I've stopped mapping since then.

Such a waste of time. New characters are fun, but only for so long. Eventually, every character I want to play is stuck in the same place - too high to exp in regular stuff, too high for low maps, and no way of keeping up or even acquiring high maps short of spending more currency than I have buying them.

In theory, maps are great. The implementation of them is so horrid it is probably my least favorite thing about POE.

There has been a very noticeable change in map drop rates since 1.0, I can say that for certain. I've now had to build up my 70+ pool twice in Domination so far, and I'm running out again a third time. Frankly, I am getting really frustrated at rolling a pack size 90 quant map and getting 0, or 1 67 map out of it. It's draining all the fun out of such an otherwise amazing game.

If you don't like maps you can just do Docks for 2% exp now.

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Necrogue wrote:

If you don't like maps you can just do Docks for 2% exp now.

yea of course. do lv 66 lunaris everyday with 2% of total mob exp and you will reach the next level maybe in 4 weeks. we DONT want to grind lowlevel areas we DO want Maps! we are 85+ and more we DONT want to grind in lv66 areas!