Not enough appropriate-level Waystones are dropping

Not enough waystones of my current progress are dropping. I am now on Tier 9 but have run out of waystones to keep progressing my waystone progress.

I am a level 81 with 170ish hours played on my deadeye ranger. I feel that I'm doing most things right:

1. I rarely die and clear each map entirely, even if I complete the map by killing the boss halfway through.
2. I use Orb of Transmutation, Augmentation, and Regal every high level waystone i get.
3. I have about 80% increased rarity on my gear
4. My atlas nodes are set up exclusively to increase the quantity and tier of waystones dropping.

Yet, I'm 7/8 of completing tier 9, and I don't have any 9+ waystones! There's a bunch of waystones dropping, but they're often 2-6. which doesn't really help me.

If I go "backwards" and try to farm some 7s and 8s, I would probably eventually find a tier 9+ waystone, but I feel that I shouldn't have to grind just to have the opportunity to grind! This is extremely frustrating -- I feel like I've been doing most things right, yet I'm being roadblocked by an unfair game mechanism.

I like the game a lot, and this is my first post. Grinding Gear, you have done such a great job with the game and it's extremely fun, but stuff like this is enough to push me back to Diablo IV.

Please consider increasing the drop rate of appropriate or higher-level waystones.

You are supposed to use the reforge bucket to combine maps into higher tiers. This isn't made very clear.

Don't waste high waystones on non-juiced map nodes.
Use low waystones to get to towers, use tablets with "x% more waystones found", use high waystones on the newly juiced map nodes.
That's literally all you have to do.
There is no magic. Simply be smart about using your resources.

I think that when you complete a tier map quest, Doryani should just start selling that tier of maps.

Would generally be a great idea to avoid people feeling anxious about their waystones.

If you put 4 exalts into a map and corrupt it you can go up to 600% waystone drop rate. If you then run a boss map it should drop 3-5 waystones of your current tier.

Also make sure you've specced your atlas for waystone drops.

I really appreciate everyone's tips to get more waystones! You're all extremely helpful!

However, it's still an opportunity for Grinding Gear Games to simplify something that shouldn't be so complex and murky. I shouldn't have to do a transmute, aug, regal, multiple exalts, then corrupt just to be allowed to continue the only endgame activity available. I shouldn't have to be forced to only spec my atlas a certain way to start to increase my chances of waystones. And neither should reforging or using certain tablets be required to allow me to continue the endgame.

I had actually googled reforging earlier and was faced with a dilemma -- I had three tier 8 waystones. Should I exalt them all and run all three of them in hopes of getting a tier 9 waystone? or should I reforge them and risk losing it, then having to drop down to using tier 7 waystones? I shouldn't need be faced with such a dilemma to simply continue playing -- it feels overly unnecessary and punitive.

Thing is: we don't want simplified. We want complex.
There are enough "take me by the hand" games out there.

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Bletzkarn#5429 wrote:

If you put 4 exalts into a map and corrupt it you can go up to 600% waystone drop rate. If you then run a boss map it should drop 3-5 waystones of your current tier.

Also make sure you've specced your atlas for waystone drops.

I know that but I think I am not willing to use the e because the only one life mode and my bd now is a little...easy to die.That is very disgust

You shouldn't need to "juice" maps just to progress.


The new system is refreshing but like everything else it needs tweaking/ balancing.