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

After reading through 20 pages of comments I decided to throw in my two cents because what the heck.

I agree that we need to have ways to target farm certain maps again. I feel a fair compromise is to make it so chaining the same map over and over makes it so your conquerors don't spawn (Which is kinda how it is now). So if you want to chain the same maps then you miss out on the new conquerors and sirus fights which can be insanely profitable. NOT EVERYONE enjoys bossing as my build could not even clear Sirus. It just forces you to get carries and results in a whole scam market of awakened gem snipers.

The new atlas FORCES you to run the mostly trash layouts in the game. Know what, if you want to solve this perhaps copy the idea I have seen earlier that some of the good divination cards can simply drop from any map now or perhaps a lot more maps. For example, The Nurse card dropping from more than a specific map to let's say 10 maps gives a huge incentive to run maps. For example, Shrine map is just trashy layout and the ONLY reason it might be worth popping is because of the chance of a Fiend card. How about a throwback to the old Abandoned Wealth card? Why not make the exalted cards or even most currency cards drop from way more maps? I'd suggest like 50% smaller chance of card dropping on other maps instead of the primary map to help battle the new supply of said cards. Just make it so running these trash layouts are better by fixing the layouts (Priority) or by adding more reward (Divination Cards). Bad layouts are not fun.

TLDR: If the new atlas is to remain unchanged, please fix the crappy layouts and make them worthwhile to run. The main issue I see with not being able to target farm is that you lose income potential (doctor farming) and you have to run maps with no rewards and bad layouts (double whammy). No one wants to click 10-20 doors per map and get stuck walking into random crap on the map. Or simply take some divination cards and toss them onto some of these bad maps to make them less trash.

Here we go again, GGG "brain police" in action again.

We get a couple of really nice QoL improvements (to repair a completely broken mechanic FYI), then the massive wet fish slap round the face nerf bat.

So, let me see if I have this all straight?

Path of Exile (now Path of RNG), the game famous for you being able to CHOOSE the way you play........

Now, we cannot choose the end maps we play, we cannot shape our atlas to get our preferred maps to drop. We are forced into playing ALL of the end tier maps whether we like them or not.

We cannot CHOOSE our classes/ascendancies at will we pretty much have to pick from one or two Metas in order to do league mechanic/end games. Sure, you can make your own build and it will be awesome until T14 Awakener level 6+ and then it will get laughed at by white mobs.

We cannot now CHOOSE to reduce difficulty levels for subsequent "alts" by removing Watchstones. You get to a certain point, and you're tied in. Answer, just do T1,2's on your alts for ever...

Everything else is pretty much governed by RNG, which I absolutely love to death.


I love the way this is going. League after league we get more and more boxed in. Give it 6 leagues and we'll have a choice of 1 starting class, 1 ascendancy, 1 weapon type, and everyone will have the exact same gear. "completing the game" will be sitting in a room rolling 20 dice forever hoping to get 20 x 6's. Path of Fixed RNG :)

Let's cross fingers that Wolcen will receive the necessary continuous improvement to become a serious competitor. Maybe strong competition will make GGG listening to normal players again, rather than the streamer boys from Baeclast.
In the meantime Standard is the only option for me, there is no way that I will sink that many hours again in unlocking the Atlas.

You all need to slow down on the changes , thinking it helps the whole "playing forever" mentality.Nothing is forever and TBH standard league , at least , was in a fine spot and it was hard to do everything it had to offer in a day ,I for example still have over 300 einhar missions that i'll prolly never do and I spend enough time on global chat to know that many people are in the same spot.So why keep adding so much?Relax , let us enjoy it for a while.

nice changes,

i had too many t16 maps compared to t14 anyway.

Seems like a bunch of entitled brats in here, my favorite was the "ggg let us have 1 lick of candy and are now taking it away".......no, they gave you the entire god damned candy store to let loose. "waaaaah, i dont wannnnnnna run x map y times" to bad.

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Baloosh wrote:

Lol - did any of you guys actually expect anything different from TenCent?

If you legit did expect something different, you have a lot to learn.

Increasing the grind keeps people playing, and keeps that $$$ flowing in (extra tabs, character slots, MTXs, etc).

Every time TenCent increases the grinding requirement, they make more money. That will hold true until people completely stop giving them any money whatsoever, for an extended period of time.

Which of course will never happen, so expect more grind, expect more chase, expect more bugs, expect more complexity and superficial layers of "difficulty" ad infinitum.

PoE 2 will be even worse. So if you hate the direction of the game, plan on hating it for a LONG time.

Otherwise, play it and have fun where you can.

Thanks mate, I rarely visit the forums but when I do, reading posts like yours always bring a smile on my face. :)

It's 2020, you have access to all the information, educational channels, you can literally become a genius in a couple of years if you really try.

And then comes people like you with their "opinions" that literally make no sense.

Ohh boy, don't stop being you! I am always a fan of free comedy. :)

Inb4 the Delirium mechanic ends up being a buff even without the current map tier awakening bonus. Put your pitchforks away. I'm predicting even greater map sustain this league.

Every league the doomsayers and Standards come in and cry a river

And every league they're wrong about everything

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3XE wrote:

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Baloosh wrote:

Lol - did any of you guys actually expect anything different from TenCent?

If you legit did expect something different, you have a lot to learn.

Increasing the grind keeps people playing, and keeps that $$$ flowing in (extra tabs, character slots, MTXs, etc).

Every time TenCent increases the grinding requirement, they make more money. That will hold true until people completely stop giving them any money whatsoever, for an extended period of time.

Which of course will never happen, so expect more grind, expect more chase, expect more bugs, expect more complexity and superficial layers of "difficulty" ad infinitum.

PoE 2 will be even worse. So if you hate the direction of the game, plan on hating it for a LONG time.

Otherwise, play it and have fun where you can.

Thanks mate, I rarely visit the forums but when I do, reading posts like yours always bring a smile on my face. :)

It's 2020, you have access to all the information, educational channels, you can literally become a genius in a couple of years if you really try.

And then comes people like you with their "opinions" that literally make no sense.

Ohh boy, don't stop being you! I am always a fan of free comedy. :)

Much love, my man. I aims to please! ;)

Glad I could help bring a smile to your face. One day, long into the future, you'll look back and realize, "Man that Baloosh dude really did know the future, and it was even entertaining to boot!"

Always room for one more in the fam, fam. :hi-five: