Warbands can drop maps.

Apparently Warbands added to maps by using the Zana mod "Warbands" for 3 Chaos Orbs can now drop maps. You can clearly see the dead Warbands monster, not even a named Warbands boss because these are the only monsters with a fiery staff:



MapMods because more information(no Prophecies were harmed during these maps):



Testing this and getting a proper screenshot took me way too long btw. The testing was done on T16 eldered Volcano maps.
But why is this a problem? Well, let's go back a few patches and patchnotes.

During 2.0.0 Warbands and Tempest were the challenge leagues. The patchnotes state the following:

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- Bonus unique monsters (such as Rogue Exiles) can not drop maps.
(Source: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Version_2.0.0)

Warbands were not able to drop maps during the league which lead to a lot of complaints about T10-T15s on reddit back then.

A bit later we had a few changes to Zana and a different league. With that Ghudda, a well known player, posted a thread on reddit. I'm referencing that thread because of a certain line to confirm all of this again.

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Tempest and Warbands, 8% for 3 exalts. Warbands don’t drop maps.
(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/3ljdx7/masters_and_map_drops/)

When was this changed and why wasn't it posted in the patchnotes? Even in the current league I've heard from people the following statement multiple times: "Warbands cannot drop maps".

PS: Don't make me test Invasion, Anarchy or the Warmongers Prophecy-chain, please.

Second confirmation about mapdrops from Warbands. This time it was Musky, the lightning warbands boss who dropped a map.




Also I posted this thread in here because misinformation or major changes missing from the patchnotes is bad. I'd recommend to either remove changes to Zana in general from the patchnotes or post the full information.

Seeing as how sustaining higher maps are a nightmare and a half without things like harbinger orbs, I say this feature should stay.

On the plus side, it would encourage more people (or at least myself) to actually use the map device, seeing as all the good ones are unavailable this league.

(Then again, I never used the device when we had nemesis and harbinger on it either, so... >.>;)

If i use any mod its fortune favours the brave.

Has this been confirmed further?

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mfeeney87 wrote:

Has this been confirmed further?

Well I'm going to try it out for myself later today (in Standard) as I continue to chase Shaper around.

I made a lot of money with this (:

Unfortunately I can't confirm this. It still seems like the map mods this season are pretty bad for map returns. Abyss or maybe beyond just to increase the rare monster count are your only hope. That, and running a shaped atlas with sextants adding more packs.