Synthesis Maps are too rare to gate Uncharted Realms behind.

Currently two Uncharted Realms are gated behind extremely low probability RNG of Synthesis maps drops.

For SSF, this means 9 weeks into the league with hundreds of AL8 and AL9 maps, about a hundred Zana inventories, I have seen a grand total of 4 Distant Memories and 1 cortex, even with Neural Pathways the probability of obtaining these is not high enough to gate two Uncharted Realms Behind.

I still haven't obtained the twisted distant memory.

Please revisit the the availability of these maps if you're going to gate key content behind them.

+100 this

its unreal to find even with all nodes

There's also a new roll on the new watchstones that say something like "36% change on zana map options to be a synthesised map" - not sure if she can witness zana maps tho

Unfortunately Maven doesn't witness those ones

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tactik_endgame wrote:

There's also a new roll on the new watchstones that say something like "36% change on zana map options to be a synthesised map" - not sure if she can witness zana maps tho

She cannot, and I honestly think THIS is the real problem. The fact that the Maven can't witness any maps opened by Zana essentially has made Zana worthless; the profitability of farming bosses for Maven splinters, watchstones, etc means that you're missing a significant amount of the reward from any maps you do through Zana. It's an especially poor interaction with Synthesis maps, because most leagues Zana is where about 75% of my synth bosses come from.

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jcottage wrote:

Currently two Uncharted Realms are gated behind extremely low probability RNG of Synthesis maps drops.

For SSF, this means 9 weeks into the league with hundreds of AL8 and AL9 maps, about a hundred Zana inventories, I have seen a grand total of 4 Distant Memories and 1 cortex, even with Neural Pathways the probability of obtaining these is not high enough to gate two Uncharted Realms Behind.

I still haven't obtained the twisted distant memory.

Please revisit the the availability of these maps if you're going to gate key content behind them.

The number of items in a class with a specific synthesised implicit on the market is also interesting imo. When you look at a rare Vaal implicit on an item for example, you may find quite a few of them up for sale. However a synthesised mod X on an item is far more uncommon than a Vaal implicit, from my experience. This would be fine if Synthesis weren't emphasised as much with the atlas passives and all. But, I think for a mechanic that has its own Maven invitation deserves more availability. ++

I was fortunate enough to be able to drop all of them in ssf, including like 3 cortexes but yeah imo Maven should be able to witness synthesis maps from Zana. That seems to be the most reliable way of getting them (there's also a harvest craft that turns a tier 14+ map into synthesis map but its more rare than the maps themselves lol)

NGL the uncharted realm passive that increases the drop rate seems to be useless

They just need to buff the neural pathways node. I'm okay with the maps being rare, but that node should have a greater impact. The elder/shaper one is great, absolutely swimming in those maps. I have stopped picking up elder maps and have 150+ shaper maps in my map tab.

Game is not made for SFF. It's made to sell inapplicable to applicable. e.g. pooling of resources with hundreds of thousands of players and trading them. Thats why drop rates are pathetic. I have found 1 awakener orb in like 12 sirus runs and can't even use harvest to full potential i literally ignore them now having the 10 crafts i need to make GG chest and boots if i ever get awakeners orbs. Not complaining or asking for more.. it is what it is. Cross we bear for not dealing with people.


Oh and BTW what exactly does "key content" mean? Sounds like a word for "content I want to see." Remember how hard Uber atziri used to be to spawn? Literally had to run 1600 corrupted areas SSF to get all the midnights..run atziri like 100x to then finally get all the mortal frags needed. I suspect it's less gated than that with synthesis maps.