Elder Farming Issues\Multiple Map Open (cleaver use of mechanics)

So it has come to my attention that there are a few issues with farming elder, that might have been overlooked or not thought of.


1) If you switch characters after opening an elder boss map and use another character to kill the boss, he drops no loot (or maybe just no elder loot, guess either way its basically the same)

A) This might also disable the ability to get credit for the kills


2) You can open multiple elder\shaper influenced maps by using the lab in the zone you unlock after you kill kitava.

A) This allows you to gain more mobs, xp, ect, simply by exploiting, cleaver use of game mechanics.


3) This same open multiple instance thing is also used in races\events that have hourly changing mechanics.


Possible solution.


Instead of having the map room area, which can have multiple instances, have zana create a hideout for you or if you already have a hideout have the quest tell you zana is in your hideout. Have her give you the map device so you can do your maps.

Brand new players don't have access to it, until they complete enough missions, but older players currently have access if they have played any other league.


I don't recall if you can have multiple hideout instances, from what I remember you could reset the instance by talking to the master which you have currently (as in their hideout) and claim new hideout, but this destroys the ability to go back into a map.

That honestly would fix a lot of these issues.

The next step would be to code it so that you had to have the account of the person that opened the map in it to drop the items, which would mean it would get completed and removed from the atlas after.




The largest issue I can see with this is that you can't do public mapping parties as easily, but in terms of fixing a very important issue and future exploits its the best I can come up with. If you have something better please implement it.


edit: just to point out poe for the longest time has encouraged people to roll multiple builds to overcome the weakness of others, so by effectively removing the ability to do the map with one character and switch to do the boss with another your going against the very design you've encouraged historically.