Map drops are horrible this league
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A sampling of “the map drop rate sucks all the sudden” threads:
Sep 2012 https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/49887 Feb 2013 https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/90979/page/1 Mar 2014 https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/856112 Oct 2015 https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1450363/page/1 Jan 2016 https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1571367 Sep 2016 https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1746259/page/1 Dec 2017 https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2054353/page/1 Feb 2018 https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2086032 Guild Leader The Amazon Basin <BASIN>
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well is it usual that t8 maps are at 2c each? When I looked them up before everything below t10 was practically worthless.
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" of course. prices are listed by demand. more people want them, price goes up. more people are reaching t8 maps which is where map drops ALWAYS suffer, for awhile, why? its because you don't have your atlas complete. you have a low atlas completion, meaning you don't get as good as map drops in your maps, meaning t8-10 you do not sustain on your own until you get much more of the atlas completed. if you want better map drops, you need to complete more of the atlas. do all the unique maps and do t11-13s then run your t8s and you'll start to see a lot more t8-9s drop. this is how it ALWAYS is, EVERY league. there is nothing special about this one, or the next one. every league has had this, and will have this |
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" They have said on a number of occasions that droprates are something they can and do change on the fly depending on what players need. I very much doubt there is the same droprates in every single league and event. But it's not something being communicated so we can never know. I guess it's easy to chalk it up to "rng is rng" propaganda. Everyone is free to believe what they want. That said i also have terrible map drop rates so far. I am stuck at tier 5 maps. That's what i can realistically maintain as of now. Level 87 with all 4 labs done. I've tried to do crazy rare corrupted maps as often as i can as i have a build that can do all map mods alas i haven't got any returns from that. Maps are presently rather expensive to buy. Usually a good sign that the majority of players are struggling too. If i would hazard a guess i would say that map drops are tuned low this league so that players are going to spend most of their time in the mine. That's what this league is all about after all. |
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Map drop rates are close to base rate. Delves can give some, but nothing close to as many as incursions + temple would give. Temple was so good for map sustaining it was ridiculous. So, yes, maps are worse compared to last league. Incursion was the best league for map sustaining since harbinger.
That said, once you hit zana 7 that all changes. You get to do T15 maps for 6 chaos (10-12 chaos if you count the price of buying T10 maps). After that point you'll have way more than you need and you'll be selling them for big profits. " This early in the league, yes, that's normal. "Before" presumably means towards the end of incursion, well of course, low level maps lose value as leagues age. This league T10s should hold value though, because of the zana 7 shape a map mod. In fact you can already see this effect as T10s are more expensive than T11s. Last edited by magicrectangle#3352 on Sep 9, 2018, 12:04:31 PM
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Maybe the fact that everyone complains about map drop RNG each league is an indicator that GGG should boost map drops, even slightly. Why does this game hand out massive powercreep (they still haven’t touched stat sticks) then tell us we’re spoiled for wanting content to play?
Sustaining maps should absolutely require investment and be a currency sink. But right now it’s just too much. We're all in this leaky boat together, people.
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Its not just that I dont get higher tier maps. Even if every map I find drops 3 tiers higher I would have trouble just because the raw amount of map drops is sooooo low.
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"how would you explain the fact that every league there are people who say they can’t sustain maps and people at the same time who say they are sustaining them no problem? If not rng then it must be skill. Guild Leader The Amazon Basin <BASIN>
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Its not that bad. I am stuck at tier 9 for now but I absolutely refuse to go into the map trading market because its so bad so its my fault.
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Poe is a pay to play/win game... If you want content you have to buy it or wait a very long time for RNG to even things out.
There is a huge in game and out of game market associated with this game. This League I have two chars 87/85. I have 6 level 7 maps and 1 level 8. Pretty sucky. Thats the way it goes... If I actually want to play the content this league I have to decide if I want to put the time and currency into it. The horrible trading system coupled with player greed makes this unpleasant at best. Not how I wish to utilize my game time. Not fun... League map burnout is usually what kills poe for me every league... you get tired of playing the map game. well its back to playing low level content on high level chars... at least for a while anyways... NS |
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