Map drop nerfed? Need a reasonable explanation
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But doctor, I can't support maps unless I buy some!
Go buy some. In any random sequence of events you're going to hit bad streaks. You hit one early. That's why there's a vendor that sells maps. |
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If you're really hurting for maps so bad that you have to buy everything - zana seeks help, a map to run her in, maps from her loot table - consider setting aside some portion of income towards cheap white watchstones to fake wake your atlas.
Make sure to move them around before you drop in your map, so you consume as few as possible. If you have 4 normal watchstones, just keep moving the temporary ones to other sectors and only run maps in the sector with normal stones, to avoid using up your fillers. I did this for a couple weeks without consuming a single watchstone, just rotate as you would a set of car tires to spread out and minimize the wear-and-tear on the treads. Be careful the times you do use a white watchstone and it consumes a use - some of the mystery suffixes can be brutal. This is the pool of mods that contains no-regen, no-leech, temp chains, etc. Delving for maps requires sulphite. However, darkness delving does not, and you use that to pick up cheap fossils and resonators and sell them and then go buy maps and mapping supplements (sextants, scarabs, white watchstones). The Foothills (a9) is your friend. If you are so hard-hit for terrain that you havta start mashing white maps, remember the Mapper's Delight card drops here, it's free real estate. It's also a good place to get natural drop t1 whites to mash together (or better) just use chisel recipe for your bought maps. Finally, in trade leagues you should be able to sustain freely just by inviting numpties to run maps with you. Put permanent allocation, set guidelines (owner gets currency and maps, everything else is up for grabs), fill up your party, juice and go. A party of 6 constitutes the single highest quant boost for all drops, including maps, that exists in PoE full stop. [19:36]#Mirror_stacking_clown: try smoke ganja every day for 10 years and do memory game
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i quit this league, couldnt even sustain maps at 134/154 A8 using every currency i had on maps and my map tab got to 0 0 0 t14 t15 t16 literally couldnt play the game
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" Party quant doesn't affect map drops There's no powercreep here. Creep implies it's slow and could be overlooked, this is a full out sprint.
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I'm at 139/154 completion and along the way I've had barely any problems with sustain. I've even been running the majority of red maps as alch-and-go, throwing in the occasional sac frag, and easily been able to sustain t15/t16s which I've never been able to do in previous leagues.
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I used this guide for atlas progression:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/hbmims/guide_stepbystep_visual_guide_on_atlas/ Banked stones in left atlas pane by default. Bought corner maps and one inner t3 (to unlock citadel) from other players. Put first stone in that inner region while doing each corner once with no stones. Got zero drops from inner region so I bought a few appropriate-tier (for 1 stone) maps to jumpstart it. Bought another t3 map to unlock a second inner region, put 2 stones in it while doing all 4 conquerors in first inner region. Repeated with another inner region (3 stones), you get the picture. Leapfrogging per se feels highly overrated but better than nothing. I got about ten times as many map drops from the regions I actively did maps in as the ones I socketed in advance. After I got 4 stones from each inner region, I sold the excess in a 1c tab and used some of the money to jumpstart new regions (Zana stopped selling relevant tiers after mid-yellows or so). Maps went from 2 alchs to 3c into reds but that worked both ways for me. --nologo -ns
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this is the first league where i completed all maps on the atlas and i'm sustaining all my t16 maps
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I am playing since abyss, never! had problems with map sustain. I dont know what u are doing lol
Dont even heavily Invest, chisel, alch, some Fragments..Sometimes Just alc and go Last edited by Crusader1612#7472 on Sep 27, 2020, 6:31:50 PM
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" I literally tried every single thing to start getting a map return. Have no missions from masters, no maps to get from Zana, juiced up every usable map for conqueror progression, etc. And still, get 1 usable map (usable aka: atlas bonus objective and/or conqueror progression) every 12-15 maps I run. Last edited by NicoSic#4450 on Sep 27, 2020, 7:03:48 PM
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Every league there are posts like these.
Its a wonder maps drop at all for anyone anymore given that 'the drops are nerfed' literally every single league according to the forums. Also these posts mysteriously vanish after week 4...I wonder what changes between week 1 and week 4 every league. Guess we will never know. |
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