I Can't Do This Again

Unless there is a more deterministic way of ensuring map drops, the risk vs. reward carrot on a stick +2 maps from bosses will fail as long as RNG lords over the whole system. Act 4 grinding (Aqueduct, Voll, Mine) runs are already enough to bring one to level 80. ATM, Im convince that it is better to reroll by then than suffer losing currency rolling maps that is better spent on a new character.

JUST DO IT!!!! - Shia LaBeouf

To many pages to check. What do you think about having a new mod, "additional maps drops w/ -rarity & quality" or "x map drops w/ -%exp" you roll that mod to get maps. You will skimp on some drops/exp but get maps of equal or higher? Still getting used to the new maps, and just running 70-72's non stop. I still think they should have some drop changes so you don't get 66s from a 78. I would be fine if every map that dropped from a 70+ was at least a 70, even if there where no map drops.

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old_joe wrote:

wow you people are addicted big time ))
Devs, just give them all a little dope of uber-mega-maps, so they'll relax lol

i suspect other 99% of players dont have a remote close of your end-game problems, playing just for fun. And this game is fun. And so Devs should adress more pressing issues first, like pure servers work so far(about what i want to write here in the first place), or bugs allover, or mid-game balancing stuff

Joe, this isn't endgame. If you start Friday night, hitting a wall at 73 maps means being stuck at roughly day 4, i.e. at the beginning.

Before you say "nolife", top streamers progress much quicker.

I and the party I play with have been stuck in Monday for one week now and even the more patient ones are starting to lose their desire to play.

Yesterday I did the unthinkable - I realized the only way to farm 74 maps reliably is to farm poe.trade and I flipped for an hour or two.

It worked.

I am starting to lose my patience.

Today I watched havoc stream mapping and he had same problem.
This is extremely bad for solo player, unless ur RNG is good. I did five 75 maps without a single map drop, and lost couple 74 76 maps due to stupid map crash.

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morbo wrote:

Lvl 89 in Warbands, ~100 hours of gameplay, managed to loot 1 (one) 76 map (old 74 tileset) in this gameplay time. I leveled to 89 mostly faceroling 72 & 73 maps. I chisel 74+ and chaos spam to high quantity / difficulty, full clear & always kill the boss.

It's Open Beta bullshit all over. Except back then you were cut off from the last two tiers (~18% of the map tiers available), now you are cut off from the last 6 or 7 tiers (~40% of available content)

I'm overgeared (and that's with self-found gear) & overleveled for the content available to me. I faceroll stuff, it's boring... yaaawwwn.. It was a nice extended PoE nolife week & 2.0 release, but no appropriate content for my char = no game as far as I'm concerned.

Sounds great. I loved open beta mapping. Getting a high level map drop was an event with a capital E and people would pretty much full clear the map every time up to the last mob.

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grepman wrote:

Sounds great. I loved open beta mapping. Getting a high level map drop was an event with a capital E and people would pretty much full clear the map every time up to the last mob.

Trade-centric game design, yay! WTB Shrine map, 5 ex. So excite!

btw, I dont need shitty map drops to full clear a map.

The flawed map system is what inevitably always drives me to quit. The fact that you have to rely on RNG to continue pushing the limits of your characters is hogwash. My main character is level 85 and I'm relegated to level 72-73 content because the RNG gods aren't shining upon me. I would like to see a complete revamp to the whole system.

It is a bit silly to be punished because the game decided not to drop a map one or two above the one you're running. I really do like this game, if the map system wasn't so ridiculous, I would never play another game. Why can we not have accessibility and challenge at the same time?

Got off to a slow start b/c of a mjolner drop and i had to completely respec. Started mapping at lvl 65 two days ago and i hit 80 last night. Havent broke past lvl 70 maps which is a pretty discouragging state. I have a few 71s but to little to start expendng them.

Well i really broke into mapping hard on my new build (Warbands) the past 2 days and even though im just now progressing to a 73-74 pool (lvl 80 currently) yesterday and the night before i seen ALOT of +2 drops from boss's! Last night alone i got 5 +2 map drops from random boss's! I kill ALL boss's in every map! So IDK yet im gonna go at it today and see where i end up! Ive been only alt/aug my maps so far unless they are Arcade or Museum in which then they get corrupted after rolling! Today since im moving close to the next tiered bracket im going to start alcing maps!

If this isnt just a god luck streak and i continue to progress maps as i have been ill post some more results here forw you guys to try out and see it helps you as well! But right now i need to run those 73s and 74s up and see where my map pool goes today! Wish me Luck! \m/