struggle with map drops and then
Posted Jan 2, 2019, 10:19 PM UTC
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I feel the need to ask. We have delves basements same-tier-as-zone-level maps, we have incursion map rooms doing the same, how are we struggling with map drops?
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I am constantly wondering that too. GGG has to have ninja-nerfed the map drops at some point, because with all the additional monster level 83 zones we get it should be much easier to sustain T16 Elder maps. But it is actually much, much harder than it was a few leagues ago.
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They've probably changed drop rates for many things over the last several years without telling us.
For this league, I wouldn't be surprised if they upped the drop rate of Exalts a little due to them being more prevalent in crafting.
That's just an example of something that could have happened. I'm not saying it DID, but it's certainly possible that stuff like that happens.
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I haven't played in a week, but the price of exalts this league has shown conclusively that they didn't. If exalts were more common they'd be cheaper.
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People are probably using them more than ever. I know I am.
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but they also get used a lot more for crafting, they added a lot of high tier crafts this league and a lof of them require at least 1ex, which is often worth it when you have the perfect item for it
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Maybe enough to try and shift the exalt:chaos ratio, but unlikely ever anywhere near enough for any single player to notice it.
Hit 100 this league, found one exalt on that character.
Quit the last two leagues one week in because i couldn't even sustain t10s while everyone was saying how easy it was to sustain, this league i'm swimming in maps with no change in strategy,
RNG leaning one side or the other is usually the " change"
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> Hit 100 this league, found one exalt on that character.
Yeah that is not even remotely true.
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There is absolutely no way you only found a single exalt on your way to 100. Not a single fucking slightest chance.
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I fel like they changed the Divines being more rare than Exalts, to it being more common. That or I am unlucky as fuck, cause I find a shitton of Divine Orbs but very few Exalted orbs. :(
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found fewer exalts this league compared to any other league, granted its only been 1 month or so
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Well, obviously one person is far too small a sample size for us to have any idea if they did or not.
But it's entirely possible they tweak the drop rates of currency items when they add new features like the revamped crafting bench.
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Oooh, conspiracies.
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As someone who came back recently after a long break, feels exactly the same as before.
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So offense, but as someone that has probably played a thousand plus hours during your long break, I will assume that my observations are a little better.
And even if it were exactly the same as you said, that would still confirm a ninja-nerf because we have a ton of new level 83 areas to get map drops from.
As an example, during Delve I ran exclusively Elder Toxic Sewers and had to sell overall around 200 of them during the league because my map tab became too full. Now in Betrayal, even though we have a lot more sources, I struggle to keep above 10 maps in my tab. But I did do 30 maps with map scarabs, that actually made it feel like it was in Delve.
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So offense, but as someone that has probably played a thousand plus hours during your long break, I will assume that my observations are a little better.
Scientifically, that's a bad assumption to make because often you'll be loaded with bias, specifically negativity bias if you are looking for ways GGG has supposedly "ninja nerfed" things you care about, such as map sustain. Similarly though, a person coming back from a long break will be without the negativity bias (in most cases) but still have issue of fallible memory. The only way to objectively look at things is to track your drops.
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Probably we (as a whole) aren't struggling with map drops. Map prices are through the floor with T16s being worth ~15 chaos. Individuals will always have runs of bad luck, but it's clear that the supply of maps is overall a lot higher this league.
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I followed popular streamers Atlas strategy. Uncompleted guardians and left out only eldered channel. Didn't work out cuz imma noob.
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We have delves basements same-tier-as-zone-level maps
Working if you got a city biomes
incursion map rooms doing the same
Again if only Alva will find that room.
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Excuses like this only come from people who try so little that they don't actually deserve high tier sustain.
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Started with 50 elder UGS in delve, done all possible for sustain. Total runned maps - 69.... So there is a unlucky persons.
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How to make 2ex in 2 seconds.
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2Ex / 2 sec ==> 60 Ex / 1 min ==> 3600EX / 1 hour!
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^(/s)
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currency flippers hate him
learn his secret now.
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How rare is an archive?
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Very frustratingly so back during Perandus's challenges.
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Like a carto box or rarer?
I've only rolled Perandus a few times and the results were very anticlimactic, haven't looked back, but also didn't know this type of box was a possibility. Probably still won't roll it though...
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I have seen only one of these during Perandus League and quite a lot of Cartographer's. They are rare.
I think it was around 1-2 ex to buy the challenge from someone else.
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Yea, I found two, one very early and opened it myself and sold the second one for 1ex with maybe a month left in the league. Found level 3 queen atziri temple room in the first week of this league and was super bummed, I'm sure that's going for plenty now but didn't have any takers that early.
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Perandus is pretty good to roll. I've ran it almost exclusively so far this league and I feel like I get anywhere from 1-3c back per box on average just in coins. You also have other goodies + Cadiro on top which can be a hit or a miss.
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I guess they never miss huh
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do you only roll it in maps tier15+ or just general on all red maps?
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IIRC, rarer but not staggeringly so. Maybe reliquary key level?
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That's pretty rare!
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What
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Damn.
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PoG
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Sigh.. unzips
After you
This box wasn't adult. Hold on or I'll call the police.