Rare Maps

I see that lots of people run rare maps, but many of them have really bad modifiers on them. Why do people run these maps since they don't provide anymore XP than just a normal blue with increased pack size? It seems like a big risk to just get more items.

Those "bad modifiers" give a lot of iiq (increased item quantity) which affects map drop rate within maps.

If your gear/build is good enough it's a relatively small risk that is worth taking.

Personally I think that spending alchs and potentially chaoses on maps is a waste. The drop is still random.
Ill better roll good 40+ iiq blue map, spending only cheap alts.

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hrapvlesu wrote:

Personally I think that spending alchs and potentially chaoses on maps is a waste. The drop is still random.
Ill better roll good 40+ iiq blue map, spending only cheap alts.

And how many alts will you spend for that? Most likely, 10-20. 1 alchemy orb costs 7-8 alts, and almost always gives 40+IIQ. However, sometimes it gives far more (60, 80, 100+ IIQ). I find alts useless to roll maps. On lower-level maps, i use 3 transmutations and then merge them to magic +1 level map. On decent-level maps i use 1 alchemy orb and run it. Oh, you're too weak to run some nasty mods, do you? But blame yourself only for that... Blame your bad build or gear.

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I see that lots of people run rare maps, but many of them have really bad modifiers on them. Why do people run these maps since they don't provide anymore XP than just a normal blue with increased pack size? It seems like a big risk to just get more items.

1. These maps have better chances to drop more maps. Running those maps, you will get extra experience.
1. Rerolling those maps is a waste of currency. Lots of players are poor just because they waste all their currency to reroll bad mods.

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

And how many alts will you spend for that? Most likely, 10-20. 1 alchemy orb costs 7-8 alts, and almost always gives 40+IIQ. However, sometimes it gives far more (60, 80, 100+ IIQ). I find alts useless to roll maps. On lower-level maps, i use 3 transmutations and then merge them to magic +1 level map. On decent-level maps i use 1 alchemy orb and run it. Oh, you're too weak to run some nasty mods, do you? But blame yourself only for that... Blame your bad build or gear.

You don't get my post at all. I don't want to spend even 1 alch on a thing that is completely RANDOM, not a map modifiers but drop rates of gear. You can run your 80+ iiq maps until the end of days and still get NOTHING. And some lucky guy will get his Kaom's Heart from docks...

The only way to get more high level maps is from the quant bonus on the map. So, i suspect people hit a progression wall at some pt where sustainability of higher maps is hard without high iiq/rare maps

A very conservative friend of mine prefers to farm merv for lots of money and buy maps. This seems great at lower/mid levels but may not work at the high end

Plus u dont get the experience of insanity hard content for max yoloing

But hey nemesis aint softieland

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hrapvlesu wrote:

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

And how many alts will you spend for that? Most likely, 10-20. 1 alchemy orb costs 7-8 alts, and almost always gives 40+IIQ. However, sometimes it gives far more (60, 80, 100+ IIQ). I find alts useless to roll maps. On lower-level maps, i use 3 transmutations and then merge them to magic +1 level map. On decent-level maps i use 1 alchemy orb and run it. Oh, you're too weak to run some nasty mods, do you? But blame yourself only for that... Blame your bad build or gear.

You don't get my post at all. I don't want to spend even 1 alch on a thing that is completely RANDOM, not a map modifiers but drop rates of gear. You can run your 80+ iiq maps until the end of days and still get NOTHING. And some lucky guy will get his Kaom's Heart from docks...

Why not run white ones then, save your alts?

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Saffell wrote:

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hrapvlesu wrote:

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MortalKombat3 wrote:

And how many alts will you spend for that? Most likely, 10-20. 1 alchemy orb costs 7-8 alts, and almost always gives 40+IIQ. However, sometimes it gives far more (60, 80, 100+ IIQ). I find alts useless to roll maps. On lower-level maps, i use 3 transmutations and then merge them to magic +1 level map. On decent-level maps i use 1 alchemy orb and run it. Oh, you're too weak to run some nasty mods, do you? But blame yourself only for that... Blame your bad build or gear.

You don't get my post at all. I don't want to spend even 1 alch on a thing that is completely RANDOM, not a map modifiers but drop rates of gear. You can run your 80+ iiq maps until the end of days and still get NOTHING. And some lucky guy will get his Kaom's Heart from docks...

Why not run white ones then, save your alts?

I am 100% sure that I will get my 3-4 alts back from map.

I like this post.

Just a shame this is missing logic altogether.

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Twister0258 wrote:

The only way to get more high level maps is from the quant bonus on the map. So, i suspect people hit a progression wall at some pt where sustainability of higher maps is hard without high iiq/rare maps

A very conservative friend of mine prefers to farm merv for lots of money and buy maps. This seems great at lower/mid levels but may not work at the high end

Plus u dont get the experience of insanity hard content for max yoloing

But hey nemesis aint softieland

This is total nonsense. I've run many high quality maps and gotten nothing. I've also run maps that I didn't mod at all for this purpose. I get just as many maps from the non modded map as I do from a souped up crafted map. It's all random. I'm done wasting currency on maps. I have no issue with any mods on a map, I'm just sick of throwing away currency to get crap when I get the same if not more from a white non modded map.

I guess I shouldn't expect anything other than this kind of rubbish from a goof who uses yolo and softieland in the same post.