Mapping in 3.14 is bonked

Followed the leapfrog strat video for obtaining watchstones & haven't had any problems at all with map drops. Instead of doing like the video suggests and always running highest level maps I just got around 60% completion bonus from white/lower tier yellow maps first and made sure to run any uncompleted map as long as it didn't have a chance of spawning a conqueror in the wrong region. I think most of these problems are people trying to get into red maps too quickly which doesn't make much sense to me unless it's day 1-2 in the league.
Last edited by Randall#0850 on Apr 25, 2021, 12:37:31 PM
I'm behaving "normally" for myself, and haven't noticed any changes. Haven't gotten any maps from Ultimatum though, and usually the league mechanism is a bonus to map sustain.
Same for me...i went 40 challenges last 3 Leagues and yesterday i gave up allready.
Took me ages to yellow maps, everything is nerfed, ultimatium is so fkn boring. The new content Boss is so random... what is this? I fought for you GGG, even for Heist, it was great what you did there and today??? Take my middlef*****r...
Yeah Leveling the acts is nothing compared to the bore that atlas map completion and watchstones are
Need more brains, exile?
Even tho I got kinda comfortably to t16 maps, it was still noticeable different from Ritual. Now on my way to Awakener 8 I can barely get maps for the regions I need to spawn my conquerors. Right now I'm out of Haewark maps and need 2 more for my Conqueror. Gotta run other regions and hope for a Haewark drop.

That's not how it was in Ritual, I was swimming in T14-16 maps once I got there. Also I didn't drop maps from Ultimata in 1 or 2 days.

For me it's still ok, as long as I don't regress in maps overall, but it's not a good feeling.
Last edited by Sadaukar#2191 on Apr 25, 2021, 2:26:05 PM
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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

Why orbs of binding? Maps don't have sockets...


they still work like alch's on normal non-magic/rare/unique maps

Last edited by idrankyourbeer#1700 on Apr 26, 2021, 4:44:19 AM
60 map in row till not a single red map.
Red maps, 4 stones from full atlas - mapping is absolutely miserable. Alch / chiseling all.

I find I'm having to buy a lot for the region I am in and sustain is pretty low.

Like, I can stomach most of the changes as I just generally like to play but map sustain seems really bad, like worse league that I remember since metamorph.

It's pretty miserable. Maps shouldn't be gated they are the tool to play. By making maps scarce you make it impossible to target farm and remove a lot of strategy from the game.

It's costing like 13-15c for a red map on trade. I get that Ex is high but it's not feeling good right now, having to buy a lot of maps.

I hardly see any elder / shaper maps. I think I have 3 shaper, 1 elder right now.

Just make goddamn maps accessible, do they not want us to play the game?
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cesmode wrote:
Ive been doing the leap frog method and now my atlas is sort of bricked. I am currently almost level 86.

1. Get to the four corners and spawn first conq.
2. Place first watchstone in valdo rest.
3. Run other three corners until conq.
4. Place two watchstones into Lex Proxima.
5. Run Valdo until four conq are killed.
6. Place three watchstones into Tirns end
7. Run Lex Proxima until four conq are killed. This is where I am stuck. ZERO, ABSOLUTE ZERO, NONE, NO LEX PROXIMA MAPS.

This method is meant to feed the next region you are supposed to run when you are spawning conqs. Running Valdo for the four conqs I received a lot of Valdo and other regions, ZERO lex proxima.

-I've run every Zana mission available and bought every map I can. She never sells Lex Proxima.
-Now, Zana has yet to offer a mission in the last 20 or 25 maps.
-I've run every adjacent map to get a Lex Proxima map (Pen (literally 10 times), Lair, Gardens, Arid Lake, Waste Pool, Armoury). Ive gone two deep and tried running Orchard to get more Arid Lake to get into Lex Proxima.
-Ive used Orb of Horizons on maps I dont need in the teir I do need and I keep getting Glennech and Haewark Hamlet.
-Ive sold 3x same map, and get any other region BUT lex proxima.

ZERO. LEX. PROXIMA.
ZERO ZANA MISSIONS

I do think my atlas is bricked. I dont have any Tier 8s in Glennech or Tirns to run.

This is probably the sole reason why around this time in the league I stop playing, because I cannot progress my atlas. Why is end game progression so heavily reliant on RNG? I must not have my streamer buff on because those guys are easily able to map sustain.

Ill give it another hour or two and then Im calling it quits. Atlas is bricked. I dont know what else to do. Hoping that mapping is changed in POE2. Otherwise, the hype will die after a while, and the game will settle into the same endgame RNG rut that it currently is in. I understand RNG for gear. I dont understand it when you are trying to go through endgame and hitting a wall you cannot move.


Do chaos recipe and buy maps.
EDIT: Oh, you're SSF, RIP
Last edited by Deadandlivin#2745 on Apr 27, 2021, 5:53:43 PM
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Chronicler87 wrote:
Ive been mapping for past 4 hours alcing anything tier 2 and ive never seen t3 map. Is this how GGG envisioned fun?


Buy maps from Kirac and do the 3:1 map recipe if too unlucky.
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