How are y'all liking the level 82 map situation?

I hate it so much, its just rng on rng on rng

There's lol 82 maps? I've only been able to go as high as 81

It's terrible. I've run one out of hundreds of maps.

All corruption should stay plus 1 from a gameplay and a lore perspective

I can't believe I'm typing this, but the .1 process of clearing non-corrupted maps around a tower before irradiating was somehow better than this.

It’s frustrating because of the RNG waystone situation you should get it back for running it and RNG mapping. Plus I can’t run a citadel at 82 unless I’ve missed something. it’s gotta either be a T17 stone or just easier ways to get +1 maps without the RNG that can be irradiated.

Content level should not be gatekept to investment - not by corruption-only maps, and not by RNG mods. If I can run a lvl 82 map once, it just feels bad to go back down just because I don't have the right waystone or modded atlas node

Same reason they disabled xp from mobs in T4 breach. Intentionally slower progression.

If you really want bases expeditions print them out like candy

I have like 250 hours and only atlad point missing is last 2 boss points They are way too rare Especially when important modifiers are locked behind item lvl 82 like movement speed

What level 82 map? Does that exist?

Disaster

Then it's like I'll farm Sims or something else. Boom, no experience. They should have only added the no experience for the T1 fights, then anything beyond that is as normal.

I’m SSF and If you’re looking for level 82 areas, I found logbook expeditions to be the best. You do have to beat the boss to add levels to the lvl 80 logbook though.

I haven't played much this league - just dabbled in campaign now that things seem "fixed". Is the only way to get level 20 gems from Level 82 areas?

I've had 2 in some areas before and 0 in others. It was kind of frustrating when I wanted to find one for my boss tree points but other than that it doesn't bother me overly. I'm not one to farm for bases or exp though. Feels a bit unnecessarily rare though to be honest. All cleansed/corrupted maps should just have it.

Yea.. I hate having to search for the right mod and then to my understanding it's not even a guaranteed +1 😒

It's annoying, cause there's no rhyme or reason to it. Just rng. And the fact that you have to manually scan through the maps to find that +1 is what made me stop doing it altogether.

Sure is fun to get randomly one shot and lose all progress. Maps are the worst thing ever.

I've found more Level 20 uncuts from Ventor's box than from T18s. Though, I've found more in Logbooks than either combined.

Having to path around Corruption in order to hit towers because I don't want to waste any +1 corruptions and don't want to waste any potential +1 cleanses feels a bit annoying.

Overall, if they just increased the amount of +1 that typically generate in either by a lil, it'd be fine.

I hate it

It’s getting boring

Not a huge fan, makes leveling even more of a pain once you get to like 97. Lvl 80 and 81 mobs just do not really give much exp and it's tough to reliably farm 82s in any meaningful amounts.

I haven't found a single one with a boss to get the last boss book.

I think I've only found 3 total and I've been mapping since day 2 of the season.

Worst change of the season by far

I don't care

I hate it. It was fine before, not perfect, rng could screw you over in so many ways, tower without corruption near, corruption without tower near, tower doesn't irradiate corruption, and before they introduced the overseer tablets, it was rng if those towers even had a boss.

And now most of the issues I personally had with it would have been solved. If they didn't make the +1 mod on maps be complete rng and rare af. Now we're back to square one. Rng upon rng upon rng. I don't get how GGG can get THIS close to greatness every single time, then do a complete 180 until we're back to square one.

What im doing wrong I only get lvl79 maps and I'm lvl 92. I don't get barely any exp from maps and none of my tablets that i have has +monster level. Or am I missing something. Started this season

Yeah I gave up. Got to 93 was having fun etc but trying to hit high level maps is boring. Feel like I was spending more time managing my inventory than actually playing.

Why not increase the base level of all maps and run lvl 82 only with T16 ( with the new map mod) and irradiated. Oh oh but that is against the vision and the lore. But hey i cannot argue with the visioner however from lore perspective wouild be better you replace stupid atlas randomness with random map mod that can be obtained via corruption that you would anyway do to get T16

Ventors endgame

I have about 100 15s stashed and about 2 16s. I have been stacking quant/rarity/boss tablets in towers and trying to pre-clear nexuses to get the cleansed area buffs and still struggle to find 82 maps.

Also wish maps tooltips were a bit clearer - like why dont boss maps show +1 already if u have the atlas passive? Even when you put in the waystone, it will say 80, but when you start the map its actually 81.

I am at 93 atm and can still get levels at a reasonable grindy pace, but i cant imagine trying to push past 95-96 with majority of maps being barely 81.

I ran out of vaal orbs in ssf and had around 20 streak of map not corrupting to t16 when I needed it for boss points

Some corrupted clusters do not have the +1 area, so hitting ilvll 82 is not guaranteed. Here are the issues:

1. Likelihood of you getting the Atlas passive skill point is severely delayed if you are unlucky with the corruption RNG as the map is required to have a boss, irradiation, corruption altogether.
2. Severely lower chance of getting 35% MS boots, which limits your crafting
3. Severely lower chance of getting higher tier currency and lvl20 gems
4. Severely lower chance of getting ilvl81 loots in general. In 0.1, you could use t15 + boss tablet + corruption to hit ilvl81 to drop highest modifiers. In 0.2, you need t16 + boss tablet to hit ilvl 81 because +1 very rare.
5. Slower level up progression

It's an obvious move by GGG to increase the concurrent player count, but it's one of many reasons why I am going to find something better to enjoy my time. I bought early access thinking that it would be something akin to Dota 2's early access (i.e. launch-ready), but PoE2 right now is in the alpha stage where major bugs, mechanics, balancing issues are not addressed.

Map situation? Does last rare not have a guaranteed map drop?