3.1 red map shaper orbs are ridiculous

I just decided to get my higher tier shaper orbs so I did shaper maps until I got him up to a tier 14 dig, completed that expecting the elder to take it over and my plan was to then buy multiple dig maps to get all the shaper orbs up to 14 but oh no, can't have that, can't have people reaching such goals and having fun. The elder randomly decided to fuck off back to a tier 7 coral map, leaving me with no shaper orbs for that time invested and maps invested. Also, it took a while to get him over there in the first place since where he spawns is RNG and he spawned in a fucking tier 1.

This is incredibly frustrating and I simply do not understand this at all. For a start why the fuck did it change so massively? That's not how the mechanic works otherwise so why now, it's supposed to be that I complete a shaper map it becomes elder, I complete that and maybe it becomes shaper again or nothing, but what it's not supposed to be is "let me just jump backwards 7 tiers and rob you of all the relevant shaper orbs"

The fact that the elder spawns randomly is another load of horseshit for this, having him spawn in tier 1 maps when I'm in red maps, when I want shaper orbs, when I want red elder challenges, etc....

In fact why is this a thing at all? Having a predefined map to get a shaper orb from was fine, if you wanted to change that then you could have just made it any tier X map gives you the orb like it is currently, minus the elder.

Then to make it all worse you run out of the maps you need to keep this shaper/elder thing going and to push elder into where you want him.

I can't even imagine the shear level of absolute cancer that this mechanic must be for a SSF player.

Can you screenshot the atlas?
I cant really imagine how this would happen if what you said is true

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Кроля wrote:

Can you screenshot the atlas?
I cant really imagine how this would happen if what you said is true

https://gyazo.com/2178d373c8c2001110f9082372fa6c6a

I got the coral ruins bit wrong, it was a gardens, I've since completed tropical island and estuary again, regardless it did happen that way. from that screenshot I also had vaal pyramid and arachnid tomb completed, then every red map up to dig. Dig had shaper influence, I completed it and the elder disappeared from all of them and went back to garden.

https://gyazo.com/0c8763abe9554c758cf2ce4657285f49

From the screenshot in the last post, went and completed arachnid tomb and this is what happened. This is just fucking retarded at this point, what a garbage mechanic.

How long did it take you to clear the map?
Because this is indeed weird

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Кроля wrote:

How long did it take you to clear the map?
Because this is indeed weird

Couple of minutes at the most.