Not enjoying the quest for the Uber Elder

My daily FU to GGG:

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We are keeping a close eye on other feedback, especially about the drop rates of things like Maps and Shaper Memory Fragments (which gate the absolute pinnacle content of Path of Exile and are not meant to be easy to find).

Apparently, this piece of shit is not meant to be found in mere 230 hours, that would be 'too easy'.

The 'absolute pinnacle' of bad design.

Another day, another 2 red elders, another ray of hate to the $#*%^& who designed this 'absolute pinnacle' of idiocy.



F U

I can top anyone's shitty experience with this so-called "quest". I've been ganking the black blotches daily on the Atlas and haven't seen a Memory Fragment drop in three weeks. Yes, I've seen the green text and heard the Vincent Price monolog over and over while mapping, and had the game freeze right in the middle of boss fights. And after the map's clear? NOTHING BUT TRASH.

If you ask me, there's NO RHYME OR REASON, it's nothing more than random-ass dice tosses. Just like the braindead Ascendency Trials that GGG scatters sporatically through the maps.

Same here, past week tried to get last two fragments, not a chance everyday i got like 2-3 elders to spawn,but not where I need them, im done with it, and until they dont change the quest, I will not try anymore.Its bad design make it harder to get by making we fight both guardians at the same time, or Elder guardian and Shaper at the same time, make the fight harder, but not pure RNG.

Unreal. Just unreal. I've lost count how many red elders I've killed, pretty sure it's over 20 now, and most of them had 3 T15 maps available.

A rhethoric question to the asshole who designed this: have you done any testing, run any simulations to see how many tries on average it takes to get the final memory fragment? Or is it actually designed to take multiple weeks?

Design intent should not be new to you. Same design intent of Original Atziri where they made midnight impossible to find. Then you had to run like 400 of her to find mortal set. Grind baby grind.

Lucky I was standard by 3rd day of this shitty league and was doing uber Elder off my legacy filled Atlas day 3 as well and didnt have to put up with this. I work to much to deal with excessive RNG gating.

I'm done.

Wont say more than what been said in those post.
I'm pissed off

If you GGG was planning to get customers play more thats a waste.


-Map Substain
-T15 elder spawn
-Permanent Elder Cycle
-RMT spam

I'm gone

I have to agree with a lot of the points already made in this post. Nothing new for me to add besides that I feel that over the past few patches, most content and leagues (and league achievements) cater towards the solo player. I myself barely ever play alone, hence the reason I've made support characters over the past few leagues. My dissapointed was prety great to find that when we (me and my friend) finaly found a T15 elder, that only the atlas owner receives quest credit (and associated orb + achievement).

You say this gates the absolute pinnacle of content and it should not be easily obtainable, with which I agree fully. The definition of easy however is not to spend 30 minutes if lucky, or 300 hours if unlucky on it. Make it hard, expensive, a grind in the sense that you always make progress, but please don't make it so heavily based on chance.

Just my two cents, thanks for reading!

Let me play a devil's advocate here.

GGG decided to make some gated content. Question - do you NEED to kill Uber elder for anything? You might say, yes I do, because not only do I want to see this new awesome fight, I also want to get the league challenge (I am not playing the league, but I am pretty sure it exists). Ok, then another question - can you prove that it is absolutely impossible to reach Uber Elder during the span of 3 months league, regardless of your time investment? I am pretty sure it is the opposite, in fact, since there are already videos of people killing uber elder, and it's not even month 2, we can safely say that Uber is not that difficult to reach at all.

I understand that this process might feel very frustrating, but if you are complaining that it is too grindy, then you have no idea what grindy really is. We are talking about a game where you can essentially re-grind 99% of its content every 3 months. This is nothing.

Have any of you experienced Korean MMOs? I have played one, and there, it took around 1 YEAR for the first person on the servers in my region to hit max level (who was obviously a no-lifer from a top guild that carried him hard to get to this milestone). THIS is grindy. I remember amazing stories of people who were leveling in the upper range (from 47 to 48 out of 55) about how one mistake (or de-sync or disconnect) could cost them MONTHS of grinding, because you lost 10% of your exp on death every time. Oh, and you also could only level in open PvP zones with purposefuly limited supply of leveling mobs to FORCE different guilds and races to grief and wipe each other.

Grinding for a couple of weeks to reach THE FINAL BOSS of the game? That's nothing in comparison. And if the time requirement is too much, well then maybe this simply isn't for you.

I mean, lately I had barely any time to play games. So guess what, I am currently playing standard with my mediocre items that I have accumulated over the span of my playtime, and don't even come near stuff like uber, because I know that it's simply out of my reach.

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Kelvynn wrote:

This is too long of a grind to even attempt the new 'hardest fight in the game'. It takes way too much time and currency. What's your design intent here? Is it supposed to take a month for an average player to unlock this encounter or something?

I gave up the moment I found I need to spawn the Elder 3 times in t15. I play the game to hoard currency and this is going to ruin players.

Very unenjoyable content, made kind of mandatory due to league challenges... Makes me wonder why this was considered as something that adds to the game.