After 2.5 years I got my first Sacrifice at Midnight

Prior 2.4 it was quite popular to run corrupted musem maps. As there are 3 bosses (double boss twice that amount) every boss has a chance to drop a sac fragment.

In 2.4 there are other maps that provide this opportunity.

I dont think it is gated behind RNG too much. IF you are playing selffound you will not have any troubles to get sac sets. You wont be able to chain them like some players do tho.

You need a decent build with enough HP/ES to survive the fight or have very good dodging skills / Flaskmanagement. Thats what hinders some people. Also some people are stuck in the routine of running gorge maps. They dont see what they could get out of running atziri - as most drops can be bought relatively cheap.
Last edited by Im2sl0w#6409 on Sep 21, 2016, 6:08:28 AM
Now, with a bit of luck, you'll get your first Mortal Hope in 2030. Joke, joke... :)

Yes, the fastest way to obtain Midnights is to chain run other fragments at the map device. Vaults of Atziri is also a nice source of fragments. Now you also have a prophecy that drops Vaults, when you defeat Atziri. And Her Mask is quite a common div. card.

But I agree with the general point that content access is too random. Usually that's the reason why I loose interest in league: having a geared char, but no high challenging content to play.
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Nowadays noons are more rare than midnights just saying midnights drop pretty easily now.
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Neat. I have not seen one yet.

Now you have about 10 years to go until you get the 4 pieces for Uber Atziri, right?

I agree: RNG gating content is silly.
In every other game/genre this level of RNG gating would be a bad design choice and a sign of the developers running out of ideas how to keep players doing certain content.

But this is PoE. This game is centered around being either lucky or willing to trade to obtain anything. This RNG gating system is not only essential for PoE, its even something the core audience wishes to have. Furthermore there are relatively many people wishing to even stronger nerf the droprates for even more nothing.

Thus the question is not, if RNG is a good choice or not, but if there are enough methods to beat RNG. And in the case of normal Atziri fragments, there are enough ways to farm them. Especially since there is this divination card Her Mask, farming them doesnt take unreasonable amount of time.
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Erial wrote:
how many have been able to run atziri self found?

I did in Prophecy league. Ran it maybe three or four times, then didn't bother with it any more because I wasn't interested in any of the uniques and it's a relatively low level area so doesn't drop any other interesting items either. At the end of the league I had about a dozen full sets of sacrifice fragments.
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Erial wrote:
Sacrifice of the Vaal was released on March 2014. Due to time constraints (work...etc) I play standard on average 1-2h/day during working days and more during weekends. Well, as title says, I got my first drop of Midnight and finally I have done normal Atziri. People will argue that I could have trade for that fragment and do it earlier, but I still think that trading should be mainly for gear and not for content.

Some people say that gating appropiate content for characters behind strong RNG is good in order to lengthen the game, but I personally thing that this could be harmful and it can prevent big portion of player base to experience such content, even though they have characters prepared for it. Most of ARPGs (including diablo 2) gate gear behing strong RNG but content is gated by difficulty/character progression (we remember endless baal runs, right?). I think it is reasonable to introduce new mechanics like soft cap, which could help to increase social interaction. However, I still think it is reasonable to suggest that maybe end content is gated to much behind RNG.



Grats.
If you like doing Atziri and need some Midnights in standard, I'll trade you some for the more common fragments. Since I never do Atziri but also don't use them up in the map device for the quantity bonus, Midnights accumulate - at the same time, they seem to valuable to just throw them away.
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"Her Mask" drops like candy. Turned in 8 of them yesterday, got three midnights.
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I get dem midnights so much, even more after "her mask" card. Rng is rng, tho, but hm, seems a really bad rng right there.
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