Acton's Nightmare, quite dissapointing.

I don't know.

I enjoyed Acton's Nightmare a lot, and not just because of the awesome music.

I think as far as Unique Maps go, it's more "unique" than Maelstrom of Chaos in the sense you need a strategy (kill and run/kill and get rid of corpses) compared to just "don't curse".

loot? it's all RNG - but I think our best loot drops from running unique maps as a team, were from Acton's.

my personal rank of the maps in terms of pure fun:
Coward's Trial first, Acton's 2nd, Maelstrom 3rd, Atziri 4th.

This shows how different ppl react in a same situation.When I do Acton I do it like a retard,pressing detonate dead in boredom with a stiff finger.But some ppl find the atmosphere,music and different experience fun.Yeah,it's all a question of taste.
According to Maelstrom,it's mby the most interesting map for a not overfed melee : chilled groud,care when you walk,curse reflection,oops you are fucked,and a bit challenging boss.I like it.

Destroyer, did you ever get your hands on some TFs?

I just found a 3rd pair,

Give me a shout.

^
Thank you very much TheAnuhart.

I much appreciate it and will thoroughly enjoy these.

all unique maps are very disappointing in their current state (imho)

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Antigegner wrote:

all unique maps are very disappointing in their current state (imho)

don't let that Atziri run get to you man.
it's RNG. win some, lose some.

actons is my favourite unique map. none of them are challenging, none of them provide great loot, its no exception based on these things. Its the best map in the game closely followed by cowards trial imo, monster levels aside.

@JohnKeys: hehehe, yeah ;-)

I actually am not unhappy about the loot. I just think they lack something special. They look like regualr maps and spawn the usual suspects.

Maybe I'm just being ungrateful ;-) but I don't feel impressed at all by something that has the lable "unique" and plays like that.

Acton's music is great indeed though!

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

I'll pass this feedback onto 'IronCageSkirt'. She STILL hasn't played her own damn map. :)

We had much bigger, crazier ideas for this map, but several of them just weren't feasible.

The music is the big draw, but it's a music box. It should be.

Spoiler

The fire theme of the Nightmare is related to my uniques -- Charan and Acton know each other. Needless to say, she's sort of terrified of his sword.

FWIW, Charan.

I couldn't fault the design of the map myself.
The mechanics and theme are sound, pretty damned good in fact.
The music is awesome, as said.
Those really are the diamond's input, I'd have thought, and they are great.

It's more the difficulty (or lack of) as the highest tier unique map at the moment, the very disappointing chest and the overall, usually, poor loot.

Those don't really lie with the diamond, more with GGG.

Edit.
I played that map as a very fragile wander, concerned about shattering the monsters on my way, it did have a slight challenge to it then, but not much.

Now, on my ranger (but would do the same on any class/build) I MF up, run through everything, completely ignoring them, kill the bosses and have a faceroll clear left.

I suppose, I'm cutting my nose off to spite my face, but with the challenge small, the loot meh and the awesome music doing its bit anyway, it's a bit of a no-brainer to just rush it and skip the mechanics.

A suggestion could be; there are a LOT more rare monsters that don't get revived (or possibly even do) like loads of them, several in every room. You need to kill (at least once if they do get revived) every rare before the bosses take damage and thus you can end the revivals.

Bingo, more challenge, more loot and one can't rush/skip/cheese it.