Are you sure about Challenge: Definitive Deviation?

I've nolifed this for 4 days and in those 4 days i've gone from 12/17 to 13/17. I just never EVER see any of these major afflictions in pact rooms.

I run between 100-175 maps per day, I gear my relics specifically for room ahead sight and merchant choices.

I've gotten almost all of the major boons (except Crystal Shard, which i've had 4x but ran into a 100% affliction choice every single time)

I don't think I have any of the major afflictions, i just don't see them as options in pact rooms!

My last run finished with 6 major boons.

This challenge really blows, i want to get back to actually playing the game.

Ok, I just give up...

I have been farming this challenge for 2 days on reliquary in and out to store 8 rooms then rush them and repeat. It is no fun at all, it's faster than doing on maps but I'm at 12/17 and I'm getting the same affictions/boons over and over again.

GGG has a very different meaning of challenge than any human being, this is not a challenge, it's called TORTURE and a sadistic one.

I could do grind challenge no problem just no point in doing it if I just cant complete this complete pile of ****.

It would have been better if you have to complete them from ALL the major boons/affictions but noooooo, only the rarest and some of theese affictions are game breaking ones.

See you on next league, this challenge just made me loose all interest in the game for a while.

Its been 3 days of Ossuary grind, maybe 40-50 floors a day. Went from 13/17 to 15/17 day 1, and nothing day 2 and 3. I'm taking all, but random room and unknown rewards afflictions, trying to make option pool as small as possible. I have many 40/40 and have to say this one is by far worst challenge i've done in years. Im pretty sure its weighted, because ive seen same major boons and afflictions over and over and afflictions is way more rarer then boons.

Its about 1-2 pact rooms per floor, from my experience (around 200+ floors after starting focus grind,) its maybe 1/5 will give major option, 2/3 will be boons, and then when ever do get major affliction its weighted, more likely be something already have.

To add to that 2 options for challenge are bricked: Glass Shard and Crystal Shard. Glass Shard, had this multiple times, every time path to boss has no affliction free choices so it gets consumed and no credit on floor completion.
Crystal Shard had this one time, the time it was offered it had 3 minor boons with it, so it just consumed its self upon taking it, its like GGG trolling.

Update: Got last 2 on day 4, about 30 floors in. Got Glass Shard room before boss, so finally got lucky, think had around 6-7 of fails caz no clean paths. And last one was traps will kill, which is ez with totem cheese.

You guys have like 2 more months it's NOT that bad.

Been here for the last 2 weeks rushing sanctum and boss map. And I've only been able to get 13/17 from the daily grinds. This by far the most boring challenge mechanic and should be reconsidered. The last challenge I felt the same was back in the Trial Master which I have only seen atmost 15x the whole league.


GGG please no more of this type of challenges in the next leagues. I've always got the same BOONS and Afflictions over and over, and the rare ones are nowhere to be found. I've ditched the divines orb choies just for me to path for the merchant or pacts rooms, but still unable to find the rare ones.

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Coconutdoggy wrote:

You guys have like 2 more months it's NOT that bad.

It's not about having 2 months to do 1 challenge its about spending torturous amounts of time for one stupid challenge that shouldn't be the most RNG gated bullshit in existance. This is almost as bad as the ultimatum fight conditions.

They should of asked for 10 instead of 17. It's really frustrating how many runs I've spent to get spit on by RNG. I just want to quit instead of this inflated player retention bullcrap.

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cheelos wrote:

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Coconutdoggy wrote:

You guys have like 2 more months it's NOT that bad.

It's not about having 2 months to do 1 challenge its about spending torturous amounts of time for one stupid challenge that shouldn't be the most RNG gated bullshit in existance. This is almost as bad as the ultimatum fight conditions.

They should of asked for 10 instead of 17. It's really frustrating how many runs I've spent to get spit on by RNG. I just want to quit instead of this inflated player retention bullcrap.

Imagine the pure joy of farming quary or reliquary for a week on lvl95+ to get one challenge. Even digging my own grave is more fun than this.

it is not fun at all, it is just pure waste of time and rly bad move from GGG.
But I think they will do nothing about it, they just don't care.

I have been playing Path of Exile for 10 years. I have gotten a few leagues where I go 40/40. I rarely leave feedback on these forums.

I am stuck on this last challenge and I am so unimaginably frustrated by it that it makes me question ever playing Path of Exile again.

Whoever designed this is a sadist.

I have run thousands of maps just foregoing **EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE GAME** and speed running just to try to get this done and it's been to no avail. I spend all my free time trying to get this done. It's such an enormous time sink and it seems I'm never ever going to get more than 15/17.

I'm hunting Pacts, keeping at least 3 afflictions, etc. I don't know what else I can do.

I hate this challenge with everything in my being.

I've killed over 1.1m monsters and ran enough reliquary to want to legitimitely uninstall my life. Still at 15/17. Only had 1 major affliction and I can't get the others one for my life (running with 3 minors to get a major). Whoever designed this, like many things, didn't even test it (Shocker).