Conquerors of the Atlas-Good or bad for the game?

Even with all the hate for the new league I was quite enjoying it for a change of pace and then I reached maps. After opening the Atlas I sighed and realised that this is the change that killed the game for me. I've only got to Sirus once and the journey wasn't fun so I simply haven't bothered since and quit early. GGG could put out the best league to date and I still don't think I would play that long due to Conquerors expansion changes.

I really miss War for the Atlas. I used to look forward to completing it every league and having Elder/Shaper fight it out. I think that Atlas was just more fun. It wasn't perfect by any means but I enjoyed completing it which is more than can be said for the Atlas we have now.

So do you think Conquerors of the Atlas has been good or bad for the game?

gotta be honest here do miss the old atlas liked it more personally.
but it's not i can't get used to.

and if it's bad or good for the game? who knows really.

I hate new atlas and Sirus fight and miss the old one.
It´s overcomplicated and unintuitive for most new players and it takes too long to progress to Sirus.
The fight is also the most annoying boss design I have met.
I skipped the league and have no interest to play standard or anything till they fix it or bring PoE2.

It was good for casuals when you could progress running low tier maps. Now people are stuck and it takes forever to spawn high level Sirus. Still prefer this over elder/shaper influence.

Conqueror fights are good but Sirus is a mess.

I love the 3.9 version of Atlas. It is way easier to focus-farm maps, have regular boss fights and adapt map level to characters.

Though I agree the Sirus fight makes me quite frustrated for now, maybe it wont anymore once I get to know it better.

I like the ability to target farm maps on the new atlas and change the tiers.

I don't like the watchstone grind and the 8 cycles of the bosses you have to do to fully unlock. Maybe just too much of a time commitment for me?

Overall the sad truth is I preferred the old atlas I think, it was less powerful but it was also simple and effective

The conqueror fights are decent, but Sirus himself isn't close to Uber Elder for me or Shaper even, the version from the end of metamorph was probably = to shaper but version we got in Delirium was significantly worse.

Ask yourself "Was Cortez good for the Aztecs?" Are any conquerors ever good for the native inhabitants? Nope.

New atlas is tons better than the old one. I love it.
Run any map you want.
Speed farm conqs and Sirus.
Get tons of master missions.
Sextanting is way easier.

Just a few of the improvements.

The new atlas seems great. This is my first league since it came out and I'm loving it so far. It feels much more like I'm really progressing the atlas and have a lot more control rather than just praying and hoping for maps of the next tier to drop so I can move up. The old one feels so bland in comparison... I'm on t5 maps what do I do next, run those till I get T6 great. THen what... run those till T7 etc etc.

It's a little complicated at first but I'm up to 8 watchstones now and think I have a decent handle on what I'm trying to do to continue getting stones and progressing up to red maps. TBF I enjoy mini-games and puzzles so this is a great addition for me but I can understand how it may not appeal as much to others.

Hate the new atlas mechanics, quite enjoyed the old ones.

Two biggest pet peaves - only your first character per league actually progresses through the atlas now, where before each character could spawn influence and enjoy the guardian and boss fights. That and Sirus is stupid easy for ranged characters, and so annoying for melee, its like they intentionally made it very unbalanced.