Definitive Deviation challenge is very inconsistent to finish.

I've been running Sanctums whole league, the last 2 weeks I've been doing sanctum rush 24/7 with a Wandering Path atlas.

This is the current status of my challenge:



I'm prioritizing Benevolent Fountains, Merchants, Afflicted Fountains, Pact rooms, scanning every possible room for missing afflictions and taking every single one I find, most of my runs end with a wall of afflictions and boons and yet I'm still missing 5.

I've been talking with many 36+ challenge players and almost everyone says the same: Huge bottleneck on this challenge. Some Boons and Afflictions doesnt show at all or are too RNG to complete (for example Glass Shard). I dont mind grindy challenges in fact I like them, but I feel like this one has too much RNG involved and some Major Boon/Afflictions are very very rare to find.

As a feedback, I think this challenge should've been split in 2 sub-challenges:

- Get 20 different Minor Boons and Minor Afflictions.
- Get 6 different Major Boons and Major Afflictions.

This way the challenge would incentivize players to run a lot of Sanctums and check for alternative paths instead rushing reward rooms without being too RNG dependant.

Thanks.

Wouldn't it be better to focus on Accursed Pact rooms instead? I feel like they're the best source of Major Afflictions/Boons.

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Jadian wrote:

Wouldn't it be better to focus on Accursed Pact rooms instead? I feel like they're the best source of Major Afflictions/Boons.

Yeah, I also prioritize pacts, just forgot to mention it on the main post. But pacts seems to give more or less the same afflictions or random minor ones, seems like the issue is the major afflictions which are way harder to get.

It is demoralizing because you are actually skipping a lot of rewards by prioritizing all those rooms..

I would change your focus to only Accursed Pacts and none of the other stuff. The reason is you are only missing 2 boons on that list but you are missing SEVEN afflictions.

Considering you can very easily go 5+ runs without getting progress on this, specially considering how long it takes to get the run done (farming the maps and executing the sanctum). I think a lot of people are getting frustrated.

The simple fact that you can get the same major boon applied twice (even if they don't stack) seems broken.

Yes, doing them in Act 10 helps speed thing up, as does running haste. still I'm not sure it was intended that completing both GGG and PPP challenges require less time and effort.