Having to purchase red maps, vaal & alch orbs

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Prisus написал:

My problem is that there is no "reliable" vaal orb recipe to make it not a complete nightmare.

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Peterlerock написал:

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Prisus написал:

My problem is that there is no "reliable" vaal orb recipe to make it not a complete nightmare.

That's what made me quit SSF this league.

I was doing alright on items and map drops. I even got nice melee weapons (something I was afraid of would never happen).
But I couldn't sustain vaal orbs.

The recipe is just nonsense (7 gems, that's like 50 runs with fragments in the map device, or endless lowlevel grinding). They could drop it down to 3 or 4 vaal gems, and it would be alright I guess. Or give us vaal orb shards for vendoring Atziri fragments.

The div card is alright, drops quite frequently in the right zones, but in SSF, you don't have an endless amount of vaal pyramid maps.

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krenderke написал:

If you want vaal orbs I can recommend chaining Vaal pyramid, the divcard drops frequently enough, similarly if u have vaults of atziri, you will get at least 6 divcard out of it on avg which is a vaal orb. (the Catalyst obviously, Inventor is kinda rare)

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nononononono написал:

Map drops been nerfed over the past many years:

No more +2 from rare (They used to)
Beyond/Exile don't drop maps (They used to)
Map packs being "adjusted" across the years
Map mods nerf

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Peterlerock написал:

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nononononono написал:

Map drops been nerfed over the past many years:

No more +2 from rare (They used to)
Beyond/Exile don't drop maps (They used to)
Map packs being "adjusted" across the years
Map mods nerf

GGG has done nothing but give us more access, more player power and a faster leveling curve for years.

When I started playing PoE somewhat seriously (in Ambush League), we had courtyard and palace map with monster level 78 as the highest content available. That's pretty much today's courtyard. You see anyone chaining that form 80 to 100?

A build was considered "finished" at lvl 80. Build guides would tell you to spend further points in "whatever the f*** you want" because few people got past that point.
I was a god amongst humans with a lvl 91 ranger. ;)

Maybe you read the story of the first guy to make it to 100 to understand how the game looked like in the past.

And then compare it with today:
One month into a league, you're not even in ladder below lvl 92.

Of course GGG try to slow it down a bit. They have to.
They've given us so many tools since the atlas expansion, leveling has become a joke.

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bablo написал:

I can assure you drop rates are as miserable in standard as they are in beastiary. I'm alching, chiseling, vaaling every red map and still only get a new red map to drop once every 5 maps.

In 1 month of standard play I went from a pool of >150 red maps to something like 75 red maps now. And even then I bought a lot of maps as well.

If anything, this is what wants me to give up on this game entirely. I don't get why GGG is not addressing this issue and just catering for those 1% of players that still think (red!) map drops are "as intended".