New Vaal Side Area Modifiers + Oversight?

So it seems Vaal Side Areas have new modifiers, which are supposed to act as juiced-up versions of regular maps - modifiers which completely null your block chances, 75% less recovery rate of Life and ES, 75% less Non-Curse Aura effect, 150%+ extra damage as something, et cetera - and while I understand the logic behind balancing them around the new Keystone (Lucid Dreams), I feel like the method of putting in Sacrifice fragments in the Map Device and opening a portal to a standalone Side Area seems forgotten - every use is now a literal dice roll of how badly it breaks your build. You can't know what you're stepping into unlike a Side Area in a Map, so you pretty much just use up a whole fragment for nothing. Step in, see the modifier nulls your build entirely, and step out.

I hope this is an oversight and perhaps a new Keystone can be added that allows the viewing of the Side Area modifiers in the Map Device before it is consumed. Perhaps adding it to Lucid Dreams would cover all bases adequately.
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Last bumped on Aug 23, 2023, 4:57:04 PM

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