The Self Found League

a big huge +1

Although, I think that item drops are alright, I have a fair amount of uniques and quality gems. That doesn't apply to currency (I've only ever seen 1 exalt and 1 divine in countless hours of farming). But currency doesn't bother me as much.

What does is the drop rate of maps. I think I have done around 150 of them, mostly magic ones but a lot of rares as well. And come patch 0.10.8 I ran out. I only have like 5 lvl66 maps left and this is killing the fun I was having with this game, because before this moment, I still had some sense of progression slowly building higher lvl maps. The highest I found was lvl72 but since then, I have found crap. It just seems to be impossible to progress in maps without trading, which is something I don't want to do. And starting from scratch is not fun, because lvl66 maps are not challenging anymore.

In short - Partying and trading should not be mandatory for progressing!

Hey, look at the quote I just dug up.

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Chris wrote:

Two new permanent leagues will exist within one month from today.

Edit: I should clarify - by permanent I meant "four months".

I can only speculate, but I would expect at least one of these to be a self found league.
The most likely combination will be a hardcore self-found league and a default self-found league, though I think it's also possible they will just make a single self-found league, and have the other one as cut-throat.

(Source: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/379992)

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EndOfEnds wrote:

Hey, look at the quote I just dug up.

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Chris wrote:

Two new permanent leagues will exist within one month from today.

Edit: I should clarify - by permanent I meant "four months".

I can only speculate, but I would expect at least one of these to be a self found league.
The most likely combination will be a hardcore self-found league and a default self-found league, though I think it's also possible they will just make a single self-found league, and have the other one as cut-throat.

(Source: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/379992)

i dont think they will be self-found-leagues.
i honestly think they are more like auto-reseting ladders like in D2.

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EndOfEnds wrote:

Hey, look at the quote I just dug up.

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Chris wrote:

Two new permanent leagues will exist within one month from today.

Edit: I should clarify - by permanent I meant "four months".

I can only speculate, but I would expect at least one of these to be a self found league.
The most likely combination will be a hardcore self-found league and a default self-found league, though I think it's also possible they will just make a single self-found league, and have the other one as cut-throat.

(Source: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/379992)

i don't think so.

self-found leagues MUST be permanent or else you would have a lot of additional currency and items spilling over into default leagues on the end of the 4 months.

if self-found leagues were limited-time only, then you can't expect raised drop-rates which would mean they are pointless.

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shrinkmaster wrote:

i don't think so.

self-found leagues MUST be permanent or else you would have a lot of additional currency and items spilling over into default leagues on the end of the 4 months.

if self-found leagues were limited-time only, then you can't expect raised drop-rates which would mean they are pointless.

The new leagues will be PERMANENT leagues, that reset every 4 months. Being that they reset every 4 months, one would assume that they will be enclosed and will not revert your character or their items to default or hardcore, ever. As that would defeat the purpose of resetting the leagues.

Unless they reeeally don't care about Default's economy.

EDIT: Then again.. Now that I re-read the posts, he didn't say they'd reset every 4 months but instead both times said they'd have a duration of 4 months.. Not sure what to believe in anymore.

As much as I'd love to have a self found league, I won't play in a resetting one. I've never liked feeling like I'm playing against a clock to accomplish my goals before a deadline.

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As much as I'd love to have a self found league, I won't play in a resetting one. I've never liked feeling like I'm playing against a clock to accomplish my goals before a deadline.

Same here.

--C

Temporal self found league = no self found league.

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Thaelyn wrote:

As much as I'd love to have a self found league, I won't play in a resetting one. I've never liked feeling like I'm playing against a clock to accomplish my goals before a deadline.

Agreed. I play to enjoy the game and watch my char improve. Not to see 4 months later (or any set time) my char get destroyed. I accept this in a closed beta as it's part of a closed beta, but I would never otherwise play in a resetting league outside of the short races.

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Agreed. I play to enjoy the game and watch my char improve. Not to see 4 months later (or any set time) my char get destroyed. I accept this in a closed beta as it's part of a closed beta, but I would never otherwise play in a resetting league outside of the short races.

I can see why some people would enjoy races. I'm not one of them. Rather, I enjoy building up an inventory of hard-to-find items, which then allow me to try various alts. Such an inventory takes longer to build up than the lifespan of a 4 month league. I also absolutely do not enjoy the leveling process without the use of that inventory. To me, it's just insufferably slow.