Map Drop Rate and Retention

For those that may not know the drop rate for maps in the game are laughably low (In lower leveled maps). I am stuck in making progress through maps since whenever you die you lose your map. On top of the fact that the drop rates are ridiculous. I am stuck between a rock and hard place seeing as I don't have or want to spend all my gold buying LEVEL 1 MAPS!!!! and then upgrading them to the maps that I need to run. They need to increase the drop chance of the maps and or they need to make it like in POE 1 where you have a specific amount of portals in before you lose the map completely. They need to make some changes in this regards. Since I don't have the gold and don't have the maps to play this game anymore I will not be back till they fix this and its sad to say since I loved this game till I got to this point. I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE EITHER!! I have multiple friends that are experiencing the same troubles and we are fed up with it. As a game designer myself it is sad to see this and I really really wish I can fix it or atleast show someone how to fix it.



-Sincerely

Your Community :)

I've actualy decided to take a break from POE2 starting from today, because of this very issue.

I was T14 a few days ago. But today? I'm at T11, and two waystone away from dropping to T7...

I can clear up to t15 without any problem unless i'm careless. But i can never farm that high because of the low droprate for it.

And before you ask, yes, i'm doing :

-> double tower stacking with a tablet on each
-> 18 passive point in atlas going purely for waystone. I'm only missing the double corruption node
-> Doing yellow map at bare minimum, and sometime corrupt them.
-> keep my highest tier map for bosses, and i keep going for them. But they can still drop waystone of 1 tier lower than the one you did.
-> "only" 80% magic find, i'm trying to up that, but still.
-> At most, i die once every 10 maps. I play to have fun and relax, after, so i let myself 'go' when farming and die cause i was careless.


So, now i'm asking : should a player SERIOUSLY do all of this, just to have a map of their own level?

A simple change should be this : if a player complete a map, they should get a GUARANTEED DROP of a waystone of the SAME TIER they are in. At the bare minimum, it will allow player to keep farming to their levels even if they are unlucky.

Until there's some kinda fix for waystone, or new content, i'm gonna take a break from the game. It is too stressful for what is supposed to be 'mindless grinding'