Waystones killed my progress

Yeah, it's annoying. I get some current tier waystones, a lot of lower level ones, but rarely stones higher than the map I'm currently in. Lose one waystone to death and you're draining your waystone pool at a faster pace.

Buying waystone from other players is not the solution GGG should have us rely on.

I have some waystone passives on, a lot of monster pack/rare/magic packs size/duplicate, and while I get plenty of waystone drops, they're often between 1 and 6 level under the current map level, so kind of useless.

Running a Tier 12 +1 or +2 irradiated map should not give us Tier 6 waystones.

Doryani should sell waystones of every rank we cleared while opening the portal ourselves (i.e. using our maps) with no restriction.

Right now, it's tedious for no reason other than to be/feel tedious.

Map drops need a massive buff. Even with all the quantity nodes taken in the atlas tree, they rarely drop.

I just stopped playing. I can't find a way to get more maps outside of expending all my gold crafting low level tier 4 maps. I can't even imaging crafting a high level waystone starting from only maps level 1 from the vendor.

My progress just stopped 100% so I can't play anymore.

This is where I stopped too.

T1 - T4 maps were trivial to me. I got to T5 and had a few bad runs but even with waystones with 200%+ waystone drop rate, I would get 1 to zero waystones and usually they were T2.

In order to craft 1 T5 stone from the T1's you can guy, you need 390k gold.

This is exactly the issue D4 had with Nightmare dungeons and access to sigil.

Its a non-issue from a business perspective, GGG probably made around 30 million for this early access, so I cant see them making changes to allow players to, you know, play the content in the game they paid to beta test.

They have a "vision" and want to move way from PoE 1 gameplay design, but just copied 80% of the game over...

Why not just make you able to run a node with any tier you already unlocked and use waystones just for affixes?

Why everything in the game must be a struggle.

I think it should be buffed indeed. At the same time, if you can buy them, means some people manage to farm more than they need somehow? There are thousands and thousands of waystones of every tier on the market, including T16.

I agree waystones should drop more, as even I am floating around having 1-2 high tier waystones remaining constantly. I have been actively providing people with waystone sustaining problems at global chat low-tier maps that I don't need.

I have noticed followings things help waystone sustain:
- Do map mechanics, they often drop maps
- Path to bosses, they always drop maps.
- Full clearing is also option, I think the mechanic where one mob is guaranteed to drop a waystone is still present in PoE2.

You should also Regal your maps since rare maps have more waystone drop chance.

It is also important to note that playing with someone else you never run out of waystones. So maybe you guys should group up with someone. Of course ideally GGG would increase amount of waystone drops.

Nothing more gratifying than running a t12 and dropping some t2 waypoints!!! I'm in the same boat as you guys, this and the one portal per map just does not work. Disappointing to see them making the same mistakes as poe1... map sustainability was also a HUGE problem back in the early days.

I struggle hard too. The loot in waystones lower than 10 is non existent.

I do not drop enough waystones and if I do, there is not enough currency dropps to use them to juice the waystones. The selfsustain is impossible, especially if you die.

It is a devils circle, the balance is completely off.

I probably quit as well, no way I'm gona farm low tier maps again with even shittier loot.

First Atlas passives that are unlocked have to be aimed at dropping better/more Waystones , then you go for other stuff .