Cant play, no maps

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Docbp87 wrote:

Relying on currency to drop in the wild is never gonna make you rich, or even allow you to afford to map really.

Which is yet further reinforcing the fact that playing the game is actually worse for advancement than sitting in your HO all day flipping. You can spend eons trying to get legitimate drops on gear, maps, or currency. Or you can gather just enough seed funds to start flipping, then buy all the GG gear you need, and pay other people to do the work for you when the game gets too hard.

This is what's on the box of PoE:


This is what's actually in the box:


HOW ARE PEOPLE NOT SEEING THE FUCKING PROBLEM HERE!?!

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Shagsbeard wrote:

This is the same type of complaint as someone who trades for top of the line gear and then complains that drops aren't good anymore.

You played this character until it wasn't fun to play it anymore. Don't complain. Play another character. It will be fun again. You'll find that "having" isn't as much fun as "wanting".

This is true for gear. Not for content.

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AkuTenshiiZero wrote:

HOW ARE PEOPLE NOT SEEING THE FUCKING PROBLEM HERE!?!

I never buy gear, but I have to (partly) disagree with you here. No matter how frequent good drops are, trading will ALWAYS be the most efficient way to gear a character. The economy will ALWAYS adjust. As long as there is trading - there is NO WAY to make it even CLOSE to equal as self found play. And I say this as a partly self found player (I do sell, but don't buy). And games like these NEEDS trading.

But yes, the balance is way off. If you CHOOSE not to trade, you're letting go of too much of what the game has to offer. But then again, we ARE talking about the endgame here. And the endgame SHOULD make you take advantage of the in game "tools" to be efficient; trading being one of them.

BUT; Trading ISN'T an in-game tool as of yet. It is a third-party tool. AND; on-level content should never be gated by anything other than skill and gear - IMO. Gating content behind something that should not be a requirement, only a tool of efficiency, is a real dick move.

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_Saranghaeyo_ wrote:

Was like that a long time ago lol

Clear speed meta, where it's better to pick up raw currency and not gear... In a game made by Grinding Gear Games

:>

This is actually not really true. In fact, you're never gonna get rich if you only pick up currency... Wutchu talkin bout?

@Docbp87

In the next paragraph it specifically states before this league I have never had a problem with maps or currency.

Yes, I do use the Chaos recipe however I refuse to sit there & flip items. I will buy from PoE trade or the boards if I am able.

I also never stated I wanted to be rich, I would just like to progress in the game at a decent rate.

Maybe this is just my bad league, everyone has to have one right? It makes you appreciate the good leagues.

The game itself does not really offer these tools if by tools you mean poe.trade since GGG doesnt run that website

You also should not have to trade once in this game to do any of its content

Lower the amount of luck and it would lower RNG

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darkegor wrote:

How exactly you cant sustain maps guys???? You can basically run unlimited t11-12 with these prices....

Why, exactly, would I want to play T11 or T12 maps? I oneshot the screen in those maps with a 5l Ice Shot. The boss usually dies within a few seconds, with a few exceptions (some of the Shipyard bosses can be very tanky).

For leagues, I kind of see why you would want to restrict the map drops a bit, but the atlas restricts them quite a bit already. For Standard, I totally don't see any point in this content gating nonsense.

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ampdecay wrote:

got my first red map today yay! and been playing since league start :(

:(((((

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Char1983 wrote:

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darkegor wrote:

How exactly you cant sustain maps guys???? You can basically run unlimited t11-12 with these prices....

Why, exactly, would I want to play T11 or T12 maps? I oneshot the screen in those maps with a 5l Ice Shot. The boss usually dies within a few seconds, with a few exceptions (some of the Shipyard bosses can be very tanky).

For leagues, I kind of see why you would want to restrict the map drops a bit, but the atlas restricts them quite a bit already. For Standard, I totally don't see any point in this content gating nonsense.

Because the game is balance for temp league ?

I started trying to play self found maps up to 28% then realized how long this would take. Bought a bunch of maps and bought/mapped my way to 96%

Things seem fine up here. Did my first guardian the other day. I think all in all I spent about 30c on maps trying to fill in maps I missed so I could increase my %.

Totally worth it and I am running between t11-13s really consistently with a few 14's.

I thought the mapping was a problem, now I have a different stash tab for all my t10+ maps.