i am SAD

The following Maps have been removed from the Atlas: Academy, Arachnid Tomb, Arena, Bazaar, Beach, Belfry, Bramble Valley, Burial Chambers, Cage, Castle Ruins, Channel, City Square, Cold River, Colonnade, Coral Ruins, Courthouse, Coves, Crater, Crystal Ore, Desert Spring, Excavation, Factory, Frozen Cabins, Geode, Graveyard, Iceberg, Infested Valley, Ivory Temple, Jungle Valley, Lava Chamber, Marshes, Mesa, Pen, Peninsula, Phantasmagoria, Pier, Precinct, Primordial Pool, Ramparts, Residence, Scriptorium, Shipyard, Shrine, Villa, and Volcano.
Not just some old old maps gonna be removed, but also some of the new ones like Cold River!
Cant we just...keep those maps...in an alternate reality atlas or whatever ?! I am not ready to say goodbye forever to those maps! Make more Maven watchstones that grant us couple of those maps or idk.
This change alone hurts more than any Harvest nerf or mechanic nerf after its league end or even Cadiro Perandus!

all my favorite maps are gone :( sadpanda

Probably its good for league retention ,)

Right... #savemaps !
Or remove fav maps slots from Atlas cuz now barely any maps left to add in there. :(

I think it's fine. Previously there where like 180 maps on the Atlas, which is a bit overkill. Tuning that down to 100 will make things a bit easy to wrap your head around.

I do expect we will see maps rotate in and out every league.

Just like they rotate the position of the map, they will most likely also rotate what maps are on the atlas.

This is not the last time you see these maps....

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Souchirou wrote:

I think it's fine. Previously there where like 180 maps on the Atlas, which is a bit overkill. Tuning that down to 100 will make things a bit easy to wrap your head around.

I do expect we will see maps rotate in and out every league.

Okay, thinking about it that way of possible "map rotation each league for not exactly same and same Atlas" makes me feel better, have hopes for 3.17 huge Atlas rework anounce to be the sign for exactly this.
Yet i will miss a Lot the simple and relaxing Beach, Mesa and Peninsula maps and the sick looking Phantasmagoria map, which i wanted as farmable new hideout arena and other cool maps. Might not miss only Academy and Pen maps cuz i hate dead ends to farm slower than my usual slow tempo.
Lets hope at least Scourge will be awesome for maps left in-game.

They should of just made more Atlases. leave the shaper atlas alone and make Atlas 2.0 for conquerors, maven and whatnot.

Beach, Belfry, Burial Chambers, Pier and Volcano and literally maps that people have run over 1,000 times in each league.

Why do you guys keep removing stuff that people want to play with?

"People like a combination of familiarity and novelty. If everything changes people don't like it and move on to other things, but if nothing changes people get bored and move on to other things, and in the same way it's fascinating finding something that is very close to what you already know but it changes in one or two interesting ways."

AFAIK, you are destroying the foundation of your game. I watched the videos, and podcasts and whatnot. The hype over the new powercreep and Uber content, then I asked myself if I would have fun playing toward that content. And the answer is No.

Been playing this game since 2011, and over the years I deleted characters, when a change was so drastic that the character lost it's personality, I deleted it, When the patch notes killed it, I deleted it.

I have 4 characters now in standard. Standard which keeps me entertained when the Leagues are meh, or state of the game is meh. I can currently play 2 of them sorta/kinda how they were when I made them, lost 50% damage on my ED char (which I converted from a CoC char), lost auras and 50% damage on my summoner.

Those 2 chars will die as the next patch become live. And all 4 chars will be deleted.

Out of the hundreds of characters that I made over the years I will be at 0. And Scourge will not make me create a new char, because I can already tell, in order for me to make a character that can Challenge the new powercreep, I'd have to go with 1 of 3 builds. That's it. That's my character pool for POE.

Int stacker
Str stacker
Dex stacker

So sad. You guys started removing the builds, then moved to the actual maps. Went from Shaping the Atlas, and making it your own, to play what I want you to play.

No choice in building the Atlas, it's literally 100% grind. Out of the maps that you are removing Mesa was my top 5. But you leave maps like Cells and Dungeon in there.

Just meh.

Which maps they removed seems more or less random, so I guess if your favorite maps are out you just gotta hope they get shuffled back in next patch.

I personally am going to miss Belfry and Crystal Ore, but at least we also got rid of Desert Spring? That's something, right? XD