T8-15 maps are way easier than the forums let you think.

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Nice to read different experiances and I can clearly see that you have fun, despite some difficulties with one of your char. :)

Oh I'm having a blast, even when I freak out because I die from random (in my opinion) stuff and lose like 2 hours worth of xp grind... it's part of the process at the moment, can't do much about it hahaha.

Do I believe some things need changing/adjustment? Sure, it's EA though and many things are prone to change either way. But I do still enjoy my time :).

In a similar manner as you mention I'm also running mostly t10-11 at the moment to gather some xp a bit faster and more relaxed to bump my passive tree a bit and maybe be lucky with some currency in case I can update some gear and move forward.

But I've also been unlucky in waystones lately.. t13's are giving me like t5s hahahah so well I need to find waystones now also -.-. Oh well, the grind is a grind, can't avoid it, that's what we signed up for.

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mrxkon#5764 wrote:

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Nice to read different experiances and I can clearly see that you have fun, despite some difficulties with one of your char. :)

Oh I'm having a blast, even when I freak out because I die from random (in my opinion) stuff and lose like 2 hours worth of xp grind... it's part of the process at the moment, can't do much about it hahaha.

Do I believe some things need changing/adjustment? Sure, it's EA though and many things are prone to change either way. But I do still enjoy my time :).

In a similar manner as you mention I'm also running mostly t10-11 at the moment to gather some xp a bit faster and more relaxed to bump my passive tree a bit and maybe be lucky with some currency in case I can update some gear and move forward.

Hahaah, I can relate to that.....I laughed so hard when I died to a on death explosion while trying to pick up an Exalt, instead of waiting the 2 seconds till the on death effect is gone.

It never gets old....but I've learned from this mistake, at least until next time. XD

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But I've also been unlucky in waystones lately.. t13's are giving me like t5s hahahah so well I need to find waystones now also -.-. Oh well, the grind is a grind, can't avoid it, that's what we signed up for.

Maybe it helps but if you have "Local Knowledge" skilled in your Atlas passive tree take it out and try to pick all Waystone nodes in North and South-East.

As soon as I've finished the six T14 map quest I had around 8 T15 maps and a half tab full of T11-14. :)

I also use lower maps (T7-8) to pass empty tiles to make my way to boss tiles, so I don't waste important higher waystones for empty map areas.

And bosses always dropped 1-2 Waystones of the current tier and 1 Waystone 1 tier higher for me.

And if it happens that I really run out of T15 I'll simply buy myself some T14 on trade for 1 Ex each and farm bosses to get some T15....hope this helps. ;)

I have all the passive-waystone related stuff open already yeah :).

Local knowledge also as well but rng is rng so :D.

My biggest mistake I suppose was spending the waystones on 'empty' maps as you say though, instead of keeping them for the ones just with bosses etc.

Oh well, there's always a learning curve :).

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mrxkon#5764 wrote:

Local knowledge also as well but rng is rng so :D.

Nah, you have to take this one out....somehow my map drops were waaay lower when I had this Passive activated.

I guess the 40% increased chance to drop other stuff messes up the map drop calculation somehow....But I could also be complete wrong here.

Best you can do is to try it for yourself, maybe it fixes the bad waystone drop RNG for you aswell as it did for me. :)

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CroDanZ#1818 wrote:

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mrxkon#5764 wrote:

Local knowledge also as well but rng is rng so :D.

Nah, you have to take this one out....somehow my map drops were waaay lower when I had this Passive activated.

I guess the 40% increased chance to drop other stuff messes up the map drop calculation somehow....But I could also be complete wrong here.

Best you can do is to try it for yourself, maybe it fixes the bad waystone drop RNG for you aswell as it did for me. :)

I'll try it out, thanks !

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mrxkon#5764 wrote:

I'll try it out, thanks !

Let me know if it worked for you aswell, so we have at least a possible workaround for bad map droprates. :)

They are easy as hell.

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CroDanZ#1818 wrote:

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mrxkon#5764 wrote:

I'll try it out, thanks !

Let me know if it worked for you aswell, so we have at least a possible workaround for bad map droprates. :)

So during these hours at least, it hasn't really made much of a difference by the looks of it at least for me.

Some maps I might get 4-5 waystones ( super random levels though again, even a lvl 2 from a t12 lol ), some others 0, so on so forth. Bosses also still drop 1 waystone for me, I've never seen any dropping 2.

Since this is still heavily rng involved though my data is obviously anecdotal, but my first impression is that having it either on or off didn't really make that much of a difference.

Not sure if the weight calculations are different in SSF so it might potentially make more of a difference there though.

Exalts are still super sparse (not sure if this would change in general), I might get like 1 every 5 maps or so haha.

It might just be my "luck" to be honest and that's ok.

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mrxkon#5764 wrote:

It might just be my "luck" to be honest and that's ok.

I have strange luck aswell.

I tried to squeeze in some "item rarity" into my build and hoped for better drops in endgame.

But somehow my drops are waaay worse than without item rarity on my gear. XD

Ran 10 maps each....with 114 rarity I got 3 Exalts and a handfull rares, not 1 unique and only 1 T15 Waystones (All 10 map had also item rarity rolls).

10 maps without rarity (on gear and map): 2 Divines, 8 Exalts, a bunch of Uniques, way more Rares and 6 T15 waystones

Maybe it's RNG but it kinda feels very strange that I got way more stuff without item rarity on my gear than with.

Items drop behaviour feels rly weired atm.....or maybe 114 item rarity is a strange breakpoint, where it's neither fish nor steak.

But something seems to be buggy with the current item drops...went back to 0 item rarity on my gear, because with rarity drops felt so much worse. :D

I've played 4 characters over level 80. Energy shield feels very good, dodging is good. Armor is completely broken though and should be buffed tenfold in my opinion. You can wear the best on the market with the warrior and still get one-hit in high-level maps.