Having to purchase red maps, vaal & alch orbs

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Namcap написал:

One issue is that this league has fuck all density compared to prior, and also the changes they made to "targeted" map drops are utter bull shit.

There is that but the other two things I can think of are:
1) mob density got "unified" over all maps, and the outliers with high density basically got nerfed in that process (starting with strand)
2) map mod rolls got reworked (androgenised) so you can no longer get 3 or 4 mods that significantly increase pack size/quant. On average a map rolls better from an alc now, but any sort of reroll (or alt regal) and you do much worse.

I think this stuff wasn't noticed in abyss because of the extra mobs but also sextants came into their full power that league.

There is less to kill and therefore less to loot. Whenever an Abyss spawns in a level appropriate area for example, my loot and exp goes through the roof relative to when it doesn't. So after Abyss league this one will feel like a pauper's league. Which it is.

its because the league mechanic is useless and doesnt give you any benefit, its a create a random garbage item with random garbage rolls with garbage tier league. I really tried to stick into it but its just impossible. I will take a break until next league or try some new chracters in standart

Thank you, the mob unification nerf explains it. I personally like this game because I like to kill a lot of monsters and I will admit that in this league, it is a bit dry. I still love the game and have hopes that they will fix it.

A) Pick up all maps, even low level ones, and trade up 3:1.
B) Pick up all uniques, and vendor to get your alchs.
C) They changed all the extra values of mods on maps awhile back now; you may have alched it but if it's only 4 so-so mods, your IIQ, pack size ect are a lot smaller then before.

I may have bought around 10 maps now, to finish up elder spawns early on because why not. However, without buying red maps, I've been sustaining them, while also sustaining my alchs to alch them.

Not calling anyone a liar on drops, but mayyyyyyyybe there's something else other than an evil GGG who wants you to trade?

Well, maps are dropping.
Just not the tiers i would like to run.

Thank goodness there is a way to get harbinger orbs now and to some extend, horizon orbs.

Agreed on the drop rates of maps.
It was a bit tough last league but this league is probably the worst in recent memory.

Ran out of horizon orbs and now i have to buy them -.-".

mapping takes a lot of investing - even just trying to complete map bonuses im ending up buying alchs, chis,red maps, vaal orbs with very few odd red map returns.

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That seriously needs to get fixed, too boring.

Hard to get maps in this league ?

From 0 to hero:

- Zana mods
- Zana dailies ( shop is reset after each of them .. )
- menagerie
- buying
- Vaaling
- Some uniques maps and special areas that you may know already ...
- Vaaling
- Vendor recipes
- Selling your maps to buy other maps and sustaining alchemy / chisel whatever you want
- Harbringer orbs are back too ...
- Sextants ( yes they are still good at that )
- Prophecie
- GROUPING ( According to the legend it allow you to split costs )
- Begging for map in global channels ( proved to work i gave up yesterday on a guy that cried for literaly 4 hours about drops - Filled his inventory ).
- Labyrinth
- Probably missing some ... early in morning here

So now i don't want to be THAT guy but i'am really astonished of the amount of forum / reddit / newspaper thread regarding MAPS in PoE this league.
I suspect two issues:

- The way mapping is introduced to the game lead players to think it's going to happen only with alch and go and basicly "drops" - no efforts

- Players are struggling more than ever with economy and arn't able to reach a similar progression than before ( i tend to think this is the reason for most players correct me if i'm more than half wrong ).

Sustaining t15 and t16 is not desired by design or not without any efforts btw. Nothing changed here -