Changes to the Atlas of Worlds in Path of Exile: Delirium

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vanquer wrote:

If map sustain is ANY worse (in fact it should be better) than it was this league it could really hurt the longevity of the experience, noone likes having to deal with your excuse of a trading system much(I know you guys don't like to address this issue but it's a MAJOR downfall for the entire game when it actually takes you away from the game and throws you into some random browser trading simulator minigame), specially if it's to buy more maps, none likes to be forced to run maps they dislike, may it be because they don't enjoy said map, or because their build performs poorly in it (summoner builds vs acid caverns for example, the map boss there is just so poorly designed for summoners, or simple builds with movement skills that do not interact well with certain layouts, see stuff like shield wall dealing with small corridors and walls everywhere although I'm pretty sure noone likes to have to deal with walls everywhere), ultimately us having a worse map pool/being forced to run things we dislike, results in us probably getting tired of the experience faster and quitting sooner and that's bad for revenue, longevity of your product.
We should be able to pick a pool of selected maps we like from each sector, since you guys seem so firm to want us to do more sectors, with a GOOD map return system (one that's much better than what we had in 3.9 and this forum post kinda leans towards the opposite direction).

Master missions are NOT better than having better map options, on one side you have a added chance to get masters in your maps (us disliking, sometimes ignoring some of these masters is another factor that makes this option worse), on the other you have a increase in odds of having better maps and better map sustain, this one is definitely better.

Making objective completion result in harder maps, needs a closer inspection: it can easily break some builds because some of your modifiers are already heavily unfair towards them(I still, to this day find no reason for stuff like reflect and no regeneration mods to exist these tbh are not fun to deal with they don't give you options is all), like ailment based builds, and the avoid ailments map mod, make sure that doesn't break ailment bases builds, we don't need more map breaking mods, we in fact don't need any at all, they don't do anything for us, difficulty is one thing, and it's ok but a straight wall on your road with no options, is not ok.
Master missions are nice, not universally, some people like/want to only do some, some people dodge most if not all of them all together. They certainly are not a big enough incentive to increase the bonus, specially when it comes in a bundle with a difficulty scaling where previously we had a straight buff to map sustainability which is a big incentive given my previous points about map sustain.

About the atlas reshuffle, I feel like that didn't get much attention, one thing that turns off many people I know, me included is having to redo the entire atlas bonus each and every league, specially given how many maps that takes to achieve, and that just got MUCH worse thanks the the awakening bonus/level added in 3.9, on top of that, redoing maps every league for the bonus also means we will have to deal with those maps that I mentioned earlier, those we really dislike and/or perform poorly in because of our build, which is not really fun.
Being able to chose which maps to do to unlock bonuses in bundles rather than having to run even those we dislike/perform poorly in would be awesome. So my question is, is the reshuffle thing only happening for standard? if it is, could you guys look into what I just hinted towards, aka a system that allows us to unlock map bonuses for maps we dislike/perform poorly in.

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One of our goals is to provide more incentive to complete Awakening Bonus Objectives. -> We'll also be removing the "x% chance for Maps to drop one tier higher" bonus from Awakening Bonus Objectives.