(XBOX) voidstones not upgrading map drop tiers

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CaughtSun36 wrote:

Can you look at this tree and maybe try it and see if anything changes? Ignore the harvest rest is just for bossing. You can also ignore destructive play. Just try to take those map nodes and see if it helps.

https://poeplanner.com/a/9YA

That's a lot of dead passives, but for the sake of science, I'll give it a shot and see what happens. For reference, this was my tree before respeccing:

https://poeplanner.com/a/9UW

And after taking your suggested map passives:

https://poeplanner.com/a/9UM

So, on to the boss drops!

Chimera: T16 Dunes (still favored), Rewritten Distant Memory (and T14 Constrictor from another boss)
Hydra: T16 Malformation
Phoenix: Hard to tell since I lost track of him when he dashed and ended up killing the bosses in a pile, but it seems like Phoenix dropped T16 Drox and T14 Purifier while one of the other bosses dropped T5 Fields
Minotaur: T8 City Square (and T15 Constrictor, T14 Constrictor, and T16 Poorjoy's from the other bosses)

Other drops (to be fair, I did spend a little less time rolling for decent quant/pack size): Again no maps from Pit of the Chimera, T9 Spider Lair from Lair of the Hydra, no maps from Forge of the Phoenix, and T16 Port from Maze of the Minotaur.

Now here's the fun part. I realized after doing all of this that my tree had reset to the original spec without any of your suggested passives! I don't know why respecs can be so finnicky sometimes (I definitely hit X to confirm the changes, but I've noticed this happening occasionally with the passive skill tree as well), but I set it up and ran another round. Then I double checked my Atlas tree to make sure the changes actually took this time (they did).

Chimera: T10 Malformation
Hydra: T8 City Square, T16 Constrictor
Phoenix: T16 Dunes
Minotaur: T13 Glacier (and T15 Constrictor, T14 Purifier, and Augmented Distant Memory from the other bosses)

Other drops: T16 Dunes and T16 Scriptorium from Pit of the Chimera, T16 Dunes from Lair of the Hydra, T16 Cemetery from Forge of the Phoenix, no additional maps from Maze of the Minotaur.

At this point I triple checked my Atlas tree, and yes, it had all those map passives. I think it's safe to say they had no effect (which was to be expected - like I mentioned before, the small passives are dead once you socket your fourth voidstone) and these drops are just broken. And not just Shaper Guardians, but T17 bosses as well, which is even more insane to me, especially when the boss is stingy and only drops one uber frag.

I'm almost positive that this is due to the maps (and in the case of Veritania, specifically the boss - it occurred to me that Conquerors don't drop maps generally and that actually may have been the first time I've seen it happen) not being on the Atlas. The only things I can't figure out are why Hydra dropped Malformation at T16 (I don't have it favored and as far as I know that's the only thing that sometimes bypasses certain map sources ignoring voidstones) and why only some players seem to be affected, since you haven't had this issue and the first reply indicates that it could be console-specific.

Admittedly it isn't a game-breaking issue and I'm not exactly running out of maps even while feeding T16s to Kingsmarch, it just feels wrong.

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At this point I triple checked my Atlas tree, and yes, it had all those map passives. I think it's safe to say they had no effect (which was to be expected - like I mentioned before, the small passives are dead once you socket your fourth voidstone) and these drops are just broken. And not just Shaper Guardians, but T17 bosses as well, which is even more insane to me, especially when the boss is stingy and only drops one uber frag.

That's really awful and bad considering you're going through a lot of time and money running t17s. This whole situation seems weird.