Waystones killed my progress

I am LvL 77 and at tier 8 Waystones ... i died 2 times (lost stones) during that progression, have multiple towers, atlas active and run overall maps with over 120% waystone buff - but i just can`t find waystones anymore.

The drama started at about tier 5/6 where i noticed a significant lack of waytones in runs. All i find, if i am lucky enough to find a waystone in general now, are lower tier ones. So i upgraded all low tier stones and now i am out of waystones. I did not find a tier 7/8 or higher in the last 5 maps. I run a tier 8 map and i drop ONE tier 3 Waystone after 7 elite monster - why?

The progression from tier 1-4 was fluid. Now simply impossible.
How i am supposed to continue the game now without maps?

Why does the vendor only offer tier 1 maps?
Why can`t we buy maps with the same tier as our progression?

I don`t understand how this makes sense at all.

I think i am game over now ... sad.

i had to start buying mine after tier 12. even with all the atlas nodes taken they barely drop.

So you wanna tell me, i need to buy waysstones to continue the game? :D

This is hilarious.

I'm having this same problem. not enough waystone drops and I really don't feel like trading for these, also trading site is a mess and down alot.

IMO there should be NO waystones required at all.
Click the node, select difficulty and apply augments directly on the node.
Accept and run it, or don't and reset the augments to start over.

We don't have to have currency for every single activity.

I think doryani should just sell *UNLIMITED* white waystones for every tier you have completed (or completed the quest)... (or maybe for every tier!)

This will still require us to craft those whites into something better to get any good mods on them.. but at least the game won't be literlaly telling us to logoff becaucse there is no way to run relevant maps.

Same here!
Be interested in some replies as there has to be some way to sustain that I'm missing? Spamming for maps cant be the answer....can it?

waiting for the white knights to jump in here and defend this shit. lvl 88 Here with all the waystone passives, placing all my best precursor tablets with irradated & waystone% on towers, choosing the best nodes to place my highly juiced waystones on such as Bosses and intersecting towers and still I am not maintaining maps at T15....but beyond the drop rate being shit, this design is awful and forces everyone who is seriously mapping to have to take all the same nodes on the passive atlas tree and map using the same strategy which basically reveals the illusion of choice, because there isn't really any.

Edit: I forgot to mention, but since the patch I have been getting random disconnects every 3-5 maps while entering the map...when I relog the map is just gone. I was initially playing on steam, and thought maybe the patch on steam was no good so I re-dowloaded the standalone client and same shit, Random DCs on entering a new map...

I literally stopped playing because of this. Im only tier 4, but the stones I need almost never drop, which leaves me doing chores trying to either farm them up, or farm enough gold to buy enough t1's to convert into a t4....which is 400k for ONE waystone that's going to be consumed, whether I die or complete the map?

I loved the game all through campaign and was excited for endgame, but the fun was immediately nuked when I realized what was going on with waystones. For now I'm just playing POE1 and putting POE2 on the back burner, hoping something changes

well hopefully it's a EA only Feature for us to burn time while they use the data of our scaling with their complex passive tree system. there's too much to account for at a mathematical stand point without getting tons of data from thousands of different ppl/builds at all progressions.

if this is what we will see for Endgame after 12 acts idk if i'll play the full release tho i'm okay with this being used to data mine during testing but this isn't a fun mechanic and it's pretty repetitive which tbh most ARPG's are but it's not the kind of repetitive i'd enjoy personally...some people enjoy it tho but those same ppl played POE 1 for like 10 years running the same sht for a decade lol