POE 2 Endgame Frustrations: 24 Delirious Maps Tested

As a casual player, I decided to test Path of Exile 2’s endgame by running 24 delirious T15 maps with 92% increased rarity. After spending over 6.5 hours and more than 400 exalts in currency to roll these maps, I was left feeling disappointed and frustrated.

While map sustain was improved, the drops were abysmal:

Only two divine orbs and 95 exalted orbs after 24 maps.
Just one Greater Jeweler’s Orb and zero Perfect Jeweler’s Orbs.
I also lost 51 exalts due to game crashes. Logging back in, the portals and map mods from precursors were gone. I could understand this if I had died—but I didn’t. You can even see in the video that I lost no experience.

How are we supposed to have enough currency to gamble—oops, I mean "craft"—when I wouldn’t even be able to afford rolling a new set of maps?!

For such a massive investment (weeks of gathering currency), I ended up losing currency instead of gaining it, which feels broken and punishing for casual players. Six and a half hours of my life, wasted. I’m getting really close to calling it quits.

I’m not "popular" like the big streamers, so if you’ve had a similar experience, this would be the place to share it. I really hope GGG does something soon.

If you want to see the results for yourself, the video is here: https://youtu.be/I2qteVXUPac?si=JDwVqt3ykINzjxbH

Any time I've crashed in maps I can just take another portal back in; not sure why that wouldn't work for you.

In general spending much currency on general maps is a waste of resources. 200-300% waystone drop on a boss node is sufficient to get at least two T15 waystones from the boss. Use tablets for normal item drop rarity/quantity, with atlas points allocated to increasing tablet effectiveness. Yes, it's dumb and bad that your passive points have to go to making the game playable instead of tailoring content and reward type.

Also, if you're not running one of the broken builds you probably can't win simulacrum anyway, so sell the splinters via the currency trade to get some more exalted orbs.

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Any time I've crashed in maps I can just take another portal back in; not sure why that wouldn't work for you.

In general spending much currency on general maps is a waste of resources. 200-300% waystone drop on a boss node is sufficient to get at least two T15 waystones from the boss. Use tablets for normal item drop rarity/quantity, with atlas points allocated to increasing tablet effectiveness. Yes, it's dumb and bad that your passive points have to go to making the game playable instead of tailoring content and reward type.

Also, if you're not running one of the broken builds you probably can't win simulacrum anyway, so sell the splinters via the currency trade to get some more exalted orbs.

Yeah...this was weird.... the game just shut (like if you hit alt+F4) and when i logged back in...the portals were gone.

I do normally just run T15-T17 corrupted maps...thats how I farmed the currency I began with...but I watched a video from one of the streamers showing how they got "rich" off of doing delirius maps...so I followed all their instruction and was thinking I could do the same...but now I think they just lie for views, or maybe they get paid to make the game look great since they have of thousands of followers.

I only had map sustain issues on my first couple of characters. I ended up having to make a spark sorc to get past that hurdle and have not had map issues since. I just had issues getting any crafts that I could actually use, and quit crafting and use the sorc to farm currency so i can buy items on trade for other build ideas.

I ran my first simulacrum tonight actually on my Righteous Fart build (From Kripparian) and while I didn't die, it was not very rewarding at all.

If the server crashes (the game "freezes" and you see network latency spiking endlessly when hitting f1) then you lose everything.

Map node is treated as though you died (IE it's not rolled back to let you try again it's a dead node), and you inventory resets to when it was before your last portal in.