Divine altar garbage false hope

I just wanted to see 1 singular divine altar this league, got it finally for eldritch minions 3.5%. Every other altar like this i get 10+ minimum jeweller orbs etc. garbage currency i dont care about it rains like crazy. But on this map with 200 quant and over 150 rarity with increased pack size sextants and everything etc and i still had 10 altars left to click i get zero divines lmao. just delete this false hope which takes hundreds of maps to get to if you are going to allow things like this to even be possible. i have never clicked a currency altar without getting a single one, not even once, except for this divine altar. disaster of game design. something this rare should never screw you that hard.

they changed # of eldritch packs on maps. Before this league it was always 60 packs. Now it's between 20 and 60. So about 33% reduction on average, but the range is high, you don't know whether this is a 20 pack map or 55 pack map.

Altars themselves spawn at various stages of the map, I haven't got a divine altar but i did found exalted orb altar...at the end of the map, with like 200 monsters remaining in total. Got whole 1 ex out of it.

Screw this highroll gambling, searing exarch is there. Plenty of chaos, awakened sextants, orbs of unmaking etc. Steady profit that is deterministic over much smaller sample size than EOW. You don't need 500 maps to get awakened sextant altar and collect like 30 of them. Or grand embers, that's even better.

I can see that majority of players are farming EOW altars because forbidden jewels from EOW are much cheaper than from Exarch. It was always the case but this league it's taken to the extreme. You buy your green part for 1 divine, so how expensive red part might be? 3 divines, 5? No, it was fucking 14. 14 times the price lol.

Exarch altar has its own highroll gamble and that is the boss. Drop a good forbidden and youre +40 div. Much better than divine altar.

Been farming the left side of the three since the start of the league. I am not disappointed

that altar just seems like extreme bait. Even if you get it and get 10-20 divs from that map, the spawn chance is so absurdly low (1 in 400?) that you'd make far more currency running exarch maps and selling the sextants in bulk. Not to mention that so many other useful currencies like unmaking, horizon, regrets are also tied to exarch.

And sometimes you get REALLY lucky.

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Johny_Snow wrote:

Been farming the left side of the three since the start of the league. I am not disappointed

This.

I started out with the Eater influence nodes, but changed over to the left side a couple of weeks ago and I'm definitely wishing I had done it even sooner. Eater altars are pure gambling, you'll get absolutely nothing thousands of times in a row before you maybe get something.

Every single map I run with exarch alters kicks out 10 to 20 chaos in hard currency, and I'm getting sextants and chisels faster than it's possible for me to use them.

Don't listen to anyone who says to run Eater; this community is full of gambling addicts deep in the throes of the Sunk Cost fallacy. You are literally more likely to get a mageblood as a random drop then you are to get a "divines from minions" altar at the start of a map.

Don't think its gambling, more likely people just want to get their divines raw instead of via trade.

Divine altars are yet another random jackpot that you are lucky to get once per league. Loot goblins honestly felt better than this.

Well EOW altar isn't totally useless as you can still pick up lots of quant and rarity that's augmented by the keystone passive. You get more qt/rar than Exarch altars that's for sure. But then, 330% qt vs 290% qt isn't that much of a difference.

When i was running wandering path quant maxer i was routinely hitting 250 on maps, sometimes 280. Exceeded 300% twice i think. With exarch. With eow i would be able to hit sth like 360 maybe? On a good 140 base that becomes like 240% baseline with all this atlas passive nonsense (60% mod effect, all quant nodes from center).

But then, gamba is gamba. My gamba luck was horrific this league.

Ran 200+ crimson temples with such quant juicing (also 60% delirium and gilded scars with 500% qt strongboxes) - nothing. 2x mirror shard card, few empower 4 cards.

1500 decks opened - the soul was the best outcome.

75 div worth of ancient orb - nothing. First league i tried it and i regretted it instantly.

I actually quit playing after this 75 div ancient orb gamba.

Exalt altar at the end of map. No div altar's.

And i bricked 4 div sanctum cos i went into the final form fight for the very first time ever and i died. I didn't do any research first and didn't expected this boss to do regular POE damage. I had 750 inspiration, i mean whats the worst thing that can happen?

Depends on your build, but...
Eater mobs and altar mods are mostly harmless for me, so can keep stacking with minimal fear.
Exarch mobs and altar mods on the other hand are quite lethal...
Have to pick the right side because of this.