Lower barrier to entry for maven fight

Damn I've played this game a lot and it takes forever to get a maven's writ. I want to PRACTICE maven boss fight 5-10x in prep for next league.. how much time do you expect me to grind maps? Do I need to run 1000 maps and spent weeks of my life in game? I'll probably just buy the writs in standard but come on... don't gatekeep bosses so hard.

It's time to buff the crescent splinter drop rate. Make it drop occasionally from t16 map bosses as well as from the invitations...

Mavens writ should cost 75-90c and a mavens orb should cost around 3-4 ex. I don't want to pay 8 exalts to potentially not even upgrade the right mod. That happened to me this league.. I have 30 ex in my stash but I'm not very motivated to even try again because of the massive costs.

Appreciate all the recent QOL features but I feel this issue is overlooked.

She's the final boss of the game. What is up with people feeling entitled to freely fighting endgame bosses for no risk or effort?

There is no way you "played this game a lot" because you can get a full Maven's Writ long before your build is even close to capable of killing her. The drop right is fine. It does not need a "QoL pass" because you don't want to farm regional and UR invitations to generate writs faster.

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DBrody wrote:

She's the final boss of the game. What is up with people feeling entitled to freely fighting endgame bosses for no risk or effort?

There is no way you "played this game a lot" because you can get a full Maven's Writ long before your build is even close to capable of killing her. The drop right is fine. It does not need a "QoL pass" because you don't want to farm regional and UR invitations to generate writs faster.

No effort? after reaching endgame (for me this is t16 maps) I should be able to spend 3-4 hours to REPEATEDLY get to a boss. this game is about grinding the content you're interested in.

If I fail content it needs to be 1) my skill wasnt high enough 2) my gear or build wasnt' good enough

stop gatekeeping bosses around no life qualifiers

want to try this boss? play for 3 weeks of solid gameplay grinding maps. foh lol.

I want to fight Aul too.. you know how many times I've fought him over 8 years? Once. Even after getting to delve 450-500. I'm glad they're buffing his rates. I want to fight him OFTEN, he's maybe my favorite fight in the game after uber elder. I don't delve a lot because of other issues which will change next league but he was way too rare as well.

Are you running your invitations white/unmodded?

Item quant on your invitations has a direct impact on how many splinters you get; I usually get SEVERAL from each of my 10-Way fights and UR clears.

Risk and reward, etc, etc. But if you can't beat the 10-way fights with modifiers, your build almost certainly can't beat Maven either.

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ARealLifeCaribbeanPirate wrote:

Are you running your invitations white/unmodded?

Item quant on your invitations has a direct impact on how many splinters you get; I usually get SEVERAL from each of my 10-Way fights and UR clears.

Risk and reward, etc, etc. But if you can't beat the 10-way fights with modifiers, your build almost certainly can't beat Maven either.

I always run them 80% quant or up which = 2 splinters

I run t16 maps so naturally I don't generate very many invites. I'm at 8000/10000 map tier challenges and I haven't gotten a single mavens writ. I have 6 splinters.

Yea, ok "I'm doing it wrong" but I don't want to play t14-15 content.

Why should I have to run terrible map layouts or lower tier to generate the main endgame boss?

Lets say my farming strat is to run t16 metamorphs.. I can run 1000 maps and never generate a single mavens writ. EVER! At least with sirus I can still work towards the boss running only t16 maps in 4 regions. With maven I have to run maps which aren't even endgame.

To me endgame is t16 or HIGHER. Is endgame t14? Cuz I don't like running those.

going to necro this because wow this is such a dumb mechanic even in 2023. WAYYYYYYYYY too many maps to reach the boss.

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ampdecay wrote:

going to necro this because wow this is such a dumb mechanic even in 2023. WAYYYYYYYYY too many maps to reach the boss.

No harm resurrecting an old thread if the feedback on the topic is still valid.

I happen to agree with you and the OP.

Maven Invitation: The Atlas shouldn't even exist in the game. It's terrible. 10 maps to reach it, you cannot run your favorite map (eg Legion farming in Dunes), you don't have eldrith altars and you don't progress eldrith boss invitation spawn.

Maven is ok for boss maps. Elder, Shaper, Conqueror. There you only need 4 maps and the invitation is solid, drops about half of Maven boss key with high quant. Also Height Of Hubris keystone was removed and GGG admitted that it was wrong, players liked it. Even Breachstone and Synthesis has good Maven invitations.

At this moment we have 2 voidstones that are very easy to obtain, the "quest" boss invitations are noticeably easier than normal ones and also will drop another key from next map boss if you happen to fail. You can practise, learn mechanics.

Then the other 2 are fucking 10 times harder. Both Maven and Uber Elder are like 1 divine+ per attempt which is prohibitively expensive for many people. It ends up with people just getting boosted to get it out of the way. On g3 Penus boosted propably half of this chat's users through those keys :D

+1

Standard atlas invitations need to be more rewarding. It's an absolute joke when you put it alongside the boss invitations.

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DBrody wrote:

There is no way you "played this game a lot" because you can get a full Maven's Writ long before your build is even close to capable of killing her.

10 10ways or doing any of the 4 guardians/breachlords/etc will put a build past being able to do Maven generally, She is always about last of the boss mechanics I actually get to due to this.

Truth is most bosses have too much of a gate on entry to learn though, but in Mavens case OP the modern way is just pony up and buy the splinters.

Man this thread is old lmao but still I still agree with it, I barely ever get to Maven before I quit a league due to opportunity cost of farming entry.