Map Drop Rate Is Shocking

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species258 wrote:

thats bullshit slayer, you can enter maps whenever you can manage not to die in em, dont see why 71 is some huge borderline.

also i got no problems with maps, cant see why other ppl do. I got two lvl66 maps while lvling in merciless, one dropped in felshire and other in cos.

since lvl 67 i run ONLY maps and getting 2-3 map drops per map.

(lvl 70 atm)

magic or rare map

what map quantity do you aim to get

Lol. Cool your jets.

The reason is because you still get tons of exp before than point from non map areas. Let's say you enter at 65. You lvl in maps til 73, but suddenly run out. Now, when you farm for maps, you will be receiving a huge exp penalty.

Eliminating the risk of ruin, and maintaining as much exp as you can are crucial. Go in too soon with few maps, you may come up and find it hard to lvl. While someone who gained lvls outside of maps, goes in with plenty, and maintains not being punished for being overleveled will prevail.

Saw today first map ever drop, was for me, in a team, 0.001s too late to loot it and it got ninjaed. Back to farming docks, but also wondered why i even bother with this game anymore.

My jets are cool, i always talk like that :(


Yea i guess your logic is valid, but im what you would ocnsider casual so i dont really aim for max lvl or any efficient lvl farming.

edit- im poor so i do the classic = 66/67 -> magic, 68+ -> rares + i only chaos em when i roll really impossible mod

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species258 wrote:

My jets are cool, i always talk like that :(


Yea i guess your logic is valid, but im what you would ocnsider casual so i dont really aim for max lvl or any efficient lvl farming.

edit- im poor so i do the classic = 66/67 -> magic, 68+ -> rares + i only chaos em when i roll really impossible mod

That's what you should be doing :)

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Lol. Cool your jets.

The reason is because you still get tons of exp before than point from non map areas. Let's say you enter at 65. You lvl in maps til 73, but suddenly run out. Now, when you farm for maps, you will be receiving a huge exp penalty.

Eliminating the risk of ruin, and maintaining as much exp as you can are crucial. Go in too soon with few maps, you may come up and find it hard to lvl. While someone who gained lvls outside of maps, goes in with plenty, and maintains not being punished for being overleveled will prevail.

In theory this sounds nice and all but you dont consider the incredible low drop rate from maps. If you start to play maps as soon as you get them (you should obviously be 66+) the chance of getting multiple new maps out of the results of just this one map are way higher then the chance of map drops in the time you farm to 70+.

If you would consider it just from a risk vs. reward point of view even leveling would be faster on average. The chances of getting to 70 outside of maps without more then one additional map drop or none at all are quite significant while the chances that you never need to return to non-map content are not that much lower compared to starting with one extra map after farming till 70.

Even if you could get a little bit of XP advantage (on average since that is the only thing that matters) by staying in docks till 70, you have to consider if buying maps would not be smarter if you try to minmax your XP.

Isn't the highest level considered to be 68 in terms of experience, or is that only currency drops?

I think you have a really good chance of leveling outside and getting a relatively decent amount before starting maps. I know every character I have played in closed beta and the one I have in open beta has been successful like that. Yeah maybe you will level slower vs the people who go in maps way sooner and maybe they do sustain themselves but you have a way better chance of not having to farm outside of maps after that point.

I think a better topic would be asking what mods people should aim for on maps + how to roll them + when to chisel + when to rare etc.. since I am sure I would not have known if I was a player from open beta.

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species258 wrote:

also i got no problems with maps, cant see why other ppl do.

You're kidding right?

BTW they ninja nerfed map drop rate from CB>OB so stop referring to CB that doesnt mean shit