Detailed Atlas Mechanics

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Reinhart wrote:
Don't you need to unlock the map first on your personal Atlas? The way I see it is that if you simply buy a T15 and run that, it will only be able to drop new T1 maps...


No. When you buy a map and complete it, it unlocks.

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Chris wrote:
You can trade for maps and play them regardless of which ones you've previously completed. If you trade for a map and complete it then it unlocks on your Atlas, even if it's not connected to any other ones.
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morbo wrote:
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Reinhart wrote:
Don't you need to unlock the map first on your personal Atlas? The way I see it is that if you simply buy a T15 and run that, it will only be able to drop new T1 maps...


No. When you buy a map and complete it, it unlocks.

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Chris wrote:
You can trade for maps and play them regardless of which ones you've previously completed. If you trade for a map and complete it then it unlocks on your Atlas, even if it's not connected to any other ones.


Thanks for showing.

That is a very weird design choice that opens up too many loopholes. It goes against the entire train of thought to unlock the Atlas map laterally. You should only be able to unlock maps that are near previous nodes that are already unlocked. This would mean that all these high tier legacy maps would only drop T1 maps in the beginning. But so what? It would be a new and refreshing system that would force all accounts to start at one of the starting points.
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Last edited by Reinhart#6743 on Aug 24, 2016, 2:01:26 PM
.... looks like people are missing the point...
i think the point is, we could make like ALL the maps tier 15.. or 16 i guess?
so then, we could run ALL the maps and its not pointless

running JUST gorge gets BORING AS HELL.. and if you JUST want to run Gorge, yeah guess you can do that, sure

tropical island isnt that bad, but its tier 1 now, so its pointless to run, but..
now we can have a tier 15 tropical island


this atlas thing makes it so we can play all the maps, more variety ..

and like farming Crypts for Celestial Justicar ... we can make Crypt be tier 15, so then we actually get XP from it

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Run ONLY gorge/canyon/waterways

waterways sucks compared to tropical island..
Last edited by CaoMengde#7666 on Aug 24, 2016, 1:57:41 PM
I understand correctly - if i play only gorge maps, only gorge maps will drop?
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CaoMengde wrote:
.... looks like people are missing the point...
i think the point is, we could make like ALL the maps tier 15.. or 16 i guess?
so then, we could run ALL the maps and its not pointless

running JUST gorge gets BORING AS HELL.. and if you JUST want to run Gorge, yeah guess you can do that, sure

tropical island isnt that bad, but its tier 1 now, so its pointless to run, but..
now we can have a tier 15 tropical island


this atlas thing makes it so we can play all the maps, more variety ..

and like farming Crypts for Celestial Justicar ... we can make Crypt be tier 15, so then we actually get XP from it

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Run ONLY gorge/canyon/waterways

waterways sucks compared to tropical island..


Reread the whole post. It adds 5 levels when they become "shaped", that's it. A tier 1 map cannot become a tier 15 one.

Also, tropical island is now a tier 8 map or so.
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CaoMengde wrote:
.... looks like people are missing the point...
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now we can have a tier 15 tropical island

Note that you have a limited amount of Shaper's Orbs, and a Map can only be shaped once.
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ZenEnott wrote:
Once more.... Can someone please summarize how we can possibly ruin the account?
From what I understand:
If you run a Dungeon Map (which is most likely t4), every time a tier 4 map drops it has a chance to be a Dungeon instead of, say, an Academy or Vaal Pyramid.
However, if you never complete a Dungeon, they can only drop from Arid Lake (t3, 8 when Shaped) and Dunes (t5/10) Maps.
Last edited by Vipermagi#0984 on Aug 24, 2016, 2:04:39 PM
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Note that you have a limited amount of Shaper's Orbs, and a Map can only be shaped once.


wow thats dumb as fuck..

yeah i guess.. just do gorge then

Tier 13 tropical island tho thats pretty cool


... if you could make all 100 maps the tiers of your choosing, it would be like 1000000x better
adds variety, adds fun, increases player longevity, probably increases sales

...you can pay me now GGG lol

what is the purpose Not to?? .. hmm allowing a new character for the account applicable maps, yeah thats true... maybe then make the Regret cost much lower?

limiting itemLevel drops? sure... but that doesnt make a whole lot of sense.. people just run high tiers anyway, and be limited to like 10 maps

you are just limiting players' fun and variety...
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Last edited by CaoMengde#7666 on Aug 24, 2016, 2:30:00 PM
Once again GGG has done it. Made something too complicated for people to understand.

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Last edited by kolyaboo#7295 on Aug 24, 2016, 2:11:16 PM
What I want to know is what are the 2 new channeling spells that may be released in 2.4.1. You guys said you weren't ready to release them cause they aren't to your satisfaction. Well, why not tell us what you got and maybe we can give good feedback and help make them?
Nice, can't wait.
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