Locking 5th map slot behind t17 maps

I don't really mind the rest of the changes this league, they're mostly interesting and new things to explore, but this decision was laughably awful. Gating a key mechanic behind content that's pretty much top-tier means that unless you're capable of doing it, your mapping is crippled for the entire league.

Whoever thought that up needs to look at it again, because this is terrible for most players, particularly on SSF where you can't pay someone else to do it for you.

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I don't play SSF, but this is a huge nerf for players who can't afford builds that are strong enough to tackle T17 bosses.

just get a carry for 30c or whatever it is now
was 5 way better? did people really collect all those splinters and then waste a set just to unlock their map device? pretty sure most ppl got a carry for that too.

That works if you're playing on trade, doesn't if you're playing SSF. The change effectively means I can never play SSF again unless I want to map crippled for the entire league.

With all of sextant's power being moved to scarabs this is basically a huge smack in the face for anyone who's not that good at the game and locks us out of one of the game modes, which I don't consider to be good game design.

game was never balanced around SSF though. for non SSF this is better because the carry is much cheaper than a 5 way carry.

Who even needed a carry to do a 4 way? 4 maps to get the fragments then an easy thing to get the map slot.

If saving you 10c on an unnecessary carry is worth some people losing the ability to play an entire game mode, then fine I guess?

its about convenience. farming 400 splinters is a hassle. never tried it but i assume it takes a while. you also need to waste atlas points for it to make the farm faster

it feels weird that the 5th map slot is essentially locked behind uber content.

I don't know where they should put it, maybe after you kill the quest pinnacles or maven for the first time. or make it tied to atziri?

Uber bosses were introduced as extremely optional content, they are slowly becoming more and more mandatory over time. its kind of lame in my opinion.

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roundishcap wrote:

it feels weird that the 5th map slot is essentially locked behind uber content.

I don't know where they should put it, maybe after you kill the quest pinnacles or maven for the first time. or make it tied to atziri?

Uber bosses were introduced as extremely optional content, they are slowly becoming more and more mandatory over time. its kind of lame in my opinion.

Leaving it on Legion was fine, it was made for that content. If they wanted to put it behind something more "general" though... why not just map completion? They did that for atlas trees, it's super weird to put it behind T17s. Just seems like another "punishing the playerbase" decision they love to do constantly, like following a league where they had a challenge of a completely RNG ultimatum boss spawn that some people would NEVER get despite doing it hundreds of times with a league where it is no longer a challenge but there is a scarab that guarantees it. GGG have to be the most sadistic devs I've ever witnessed.

Also, those saying legion was "harder"... you may find it normal to trade for all your completion on day 1, but that's not how the average player plays. I /never/ buy completion and was able to do legion 4 way pretty fast. The "hardest" part of it was just knowing that 5 slots existed and was from that content, the only reason most people didn't get it by default was not knowing it exists. Now though--it really is be a top 0.1% player or buy your slot from someone else, which is very dumb design.