Running out of waystones as SSF

So I have now two characters at T15.

One SSF at level 90, ran out of waystones at T3, T6-7, and then had no trouble since. Currently have like close to 30 T15 waystones in my stash. I'm actually thinking about no longer picking up lower tier waystones now.

The other is standard league but played as SSF (no trading), level 86. Didn't run out of waystone until T15. I'm literally now sitting with 0 T15 stones. The last 3 T15 stones I ran on boss nodes have given me 0 T15 stones. ZERO.

Thanfully I still kept my T14 and T13 stones (I had a feeling I wasn't getting enough waystone drops on this character); but because I had just worked through the tiers following the quest for Atlas passive points, I don't have that many lower tier stones. I have 3xT14, 4xT13. I can reforge and get 1xT15, but if this one still doesn't give me any T15 stones, I'm out of luck, and will have to drop down to T9, as that's the next highest stone I have.

And no, I'm not dying a lot. Dying is rare for me because I play a Spark Archmage Sorc with Kitoko and do league mechanics after I've completed the map; that's about as safe a build as you can get.

And yes I Regal all my maps. Back before T6 I had difficulty sustaining Regal Orbs, but generally by T10 I have a healthy stock of Regals to be able to Regal everything. But I still can't Exalt everything even now.

And yes, I'm picking up waystones, of course. In case anyone wonders.

On both characters, I progressed my Atlas passives in exactly the same order (waystone related nodes first, +30% tablet second, and duplicate rare last). I juice and tablet my towers in the same fashion (obviously not the exact same layout and tablets because the characters are on different accounts). Both have roughly the same amount of item rarity on gear (20-30%). Both have been mapping the Atlas in exactly the same workflow.

But the resulting waystone sustain is completely different.

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Regardless of how or why one fails to sustain, I feel there could be at least some kind of last-resort remedy for running out of higher tier waystones in SSF.

Yes, even if it's the player's fault. Even if the player accidentally vendored all his waystones in his sleep. Just let him get a foot in back to T15 mapping. Is this too much to ask?

Maybe let the NPC restock every 24 hours to have at most 1 waystone of each tier at any given time? Is that too overpowered? Does that make the game too easy?

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Although truthfully I'm of the opinion that waystone sustain shouldn't even be a thing. Waystones are there to adjust difficulty of the endgame content, and as a form of progression. It should not be gated behind any kind of RNG.

IMO the NPC should just always sell infinite stock of all tiers of waystones. Sure, only up to T15, that's fine. But at least up to T15, or maybe even just T13 would feel better.

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kumogakure#7381 wrote:

Yes, even if it's the player's fault. Even if the player accidentally vendored all his waystones in his sleep. Just let him get a foot in back to T15 mapping. Is this too much to ask?

You have to spec 70% in tier increase chance, and run irradiated boss maps.

This is the easiest way to skip tiers.

(You drop T15 in T12 maps.)

It will take 4 or 5 irradiated boss maps.
(half hour maybe)

Edit: Or you can run just boss maps, but it will take like 6 of them
(this is more like a hour)