Progress for Searing Exarch & Eater of Worlds should be party friendly

Progress should be party friendly.
It takes 28 maps to reach the end invitation.

Why it this gated behind who opens the map?
This is negative towards party play and a pretty lame implementation.

Totally agree.

They don't want parties blasting their way through to an inordinate amount of boss invitations easily in a short time. They also don't want multiboxers parking extra characters at bosses doing the same, which would definitely be a thing if it were possible.

Up to 6 stones per 28 maps instead of only 1 as intended would be a bit much...

its simply because of the potential rewards.

1 invite is roughly 1 ex last i checked.

if progress was given to all party members, then the logical thing to do is NEVER PLAY SOLO.

reason being, if you were a guild, playing in team would net you 6 invites per 28 runs.

guilds sometimes have specific goals such as focusing on one player or manipulating markets.

playing in party as it is is already so rewarding. you have more diversity (one can be aura mancer, another curser, another "tank" etc) rather than having to build your character in a more balanced way. monster target you 1/6 of the time as you have more party members and hence more targets for monsters.

the drops are also much more rewarding.

heck its so good that stronger players WANT people to join and leech for the sole purpose of getting better loot.

so a hard no from my POV

if this is actually implemented, i'd bet a lot of players would start running alts and go full party all the time.

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RRoyalMarine wrote:

Progress should be party friendly.
It takes 28 maps to reach the end invitation.

Why it this gated behind who opens the map?
This is negative towards party play and a pretty lame implementation.

I totally agree. just figured it out now. my party members is set days behind now, when he plays solo. such a bad mechanic I actually wants to quit the game becasue of the none party playing there is in this game. so bad

Solo players get adavantage.
So poe probably still more solo rather multiplayer game. (the only almost mandatory part is trading).
Developers have stats, but i think most of top 100 players - solo players.