Creating an elder ring was the most idiotic thing I have ever done in PoE

> Oh, I need an elder ring, let's do this.
> Got influence somewhere near underground river, gotta expand that.
> Damn, I don't have any underground sea, let's check PoE trade.
> Oh nice, there are plenty!
> AFK
> No response.
> Finally bought my tier 6 map for 5 chaos, because no one ever wants to bother to sell me a map for 1 alch.

(50 min later)
> Yay, got my elder spawned now. Perfect straight line I wanted. Let's start to make a circle!
> Should I go right or bottom? Let's google a bit.
> There is too many threads about this, I'm getting a headache.
> Let's do both sides together!
> Damn, I don't have courtyard let's go to PoE trade...
> AFK / no response / DNF / whatever.
> Did courtyard (5c), but what if shaper attacks from cursed crypt he occupies? Wonders...

(30 min later)
> Yay, I am near thicket now! Let's go back to the beginning and go down a bit now.
> Damn, I got no vault...

(10 min later)
> I am on the 30 maps limit now, need to cut something.
> Armoury looks safe to cut, let's do this.
> Damn! Shaper took away 5 maps on the right. Calm down, you can regain the control.

(20 min later)
> I got my influence back, but wait a second, elder took cursed crypt. I will soon be on my limit, gotta remove it.
> (removes whole right wing again) Is this real? Gotta smoke and chill for a min...

(30 min later)
> I need to buy another 50 maps for 500c, because of the shaper trolling me.
> I am trying to ignore super heavy spam, because PoE trade didn't update and I chose alts insted of chaos.
> Need to chill and calm down my nerves again.

(928 940 min later)
> Finally, I am only two maps away from connecting the ring! Just need to buy another map...
> Damn, got 30 maps already, need to do some cutting...
> This one looks perfectly safe. There will still be a connection, so shouldn't be a prob?
(cuts)
> Whole wing gets removed again.

(quits PoE)
(quits life)

I have never had LESS fun and MORE irritation than this in an entire PoE's history. I don't ask for a nerf, but this is just beyond stupid.

INB4: "But you don't have to do it!"
- You don't have to wear a body armour as well but we all know how good it is.

Well you really don't have too I don't have an elder ring and I sustained just fine lol

What is this, I am just vaaling my maps and do every mod like a pleb. Been stuck doing tier 15s for some time, so sad.

I tried 2x I have been 2 maps to close ring and 2x I lost all ring. I gave up. Fuck the ring. I can do elder influnce maps anyway without the ring.

LOL

THE ELDER RING MUST DIE

At least you could do sextant blocking quickly. Remove elder rings but dont nerf elder infuence mechancis.

An elder ring is worthless unless you're a min-maxer (more or less). I mean, it's not like a regular player can just set up an elder ring and suddenly they're getting multiple exalts while over sustaining on every map.

this elder ring thing sounds like a job. it's boring.

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