Why The Standard League Atlas Reset?

I'm not a new player but for the first time I have been playing Standard as my play time makes it hard for me to make major progress in maps in the short league duration.

I had managed to complete up to T15s and had done 1 T16 .. then after the update I see my Atlas has almost totally reset.

Why? Why have I lost umpteen week's progress?

I KNOW some maps get replaced by others as part of the cycling process but that's only a small percentage, why is progress with all the other maps lost too, meaning another long grind to get map drops to get me back to where I was before.

Why?

Where in the game is this progress loss noted for players like me unaware of it?

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TheRealKraggy#0533 wrote:

I'm not a new player but for the first time I have been playing Standard as my play time makes it hard for me to make major progress in maps in the short league duration.

I had managed to complete up to T15s and had done 1 T16 .. then after the update I see my Atlas has almost totally reset.

Why? Why have I lost umpteen week's progress?

I KNOW some maps get replaced by others as part of the cycling process but that's only a small percentage, why is progress with all the other maps lost too, meaning another long grind to get map drops to get me back to where I was before.

Why?

Where in the game is this progress loss noted for players like me unaware of it?

Because the standard atlas layout is the same as the league one
You can just run one of your old T15s as rare + corrupted and you'll get most of the progress back.
I can even help you wtih that if you want

yeah the mechanic is that you run a map from an old series (ie last leagues maps) in a state where you can get its completion bonus (for red tier maps corrupted rare map) and it will unlock all the maps below that tier.


so the usual procedure is grab a T16 map from last league, alch it, corrupt it, run it and that will complete everything from T1-T15. then you just need to run the 4 natural T16 maps from the new atlas to get full completion.

So I still don't get it.

Sure, I know that the map is the same for both variants, but it's also true AFAIK that only around 20 or so maps were cycled out, so why is the entire Atlas reset for that?

I have just 8 points left from 8 uniques map completions, including a T15, out of around 90 I did have, so many hours lost and yet I still have all the crafting recipes from the maps they took away from me!

Clearly they COULD leave it as was, since you both cite the way it CAN be restored simply by running a T16, so there's no technical reason for it, they choose to force players to do it.

And it's not as easy as saying "run a corrupted T16", that content is harder than I can do right now without losing endless XP due to Mark Roger's fixation on 'punishing failure' .. even if I were to have a T16 which I don't.

I appreciate the offer of help and the explanation but this leaves a bad taste in my mouth and questioning whether I want to go through this every 3 months. :(

What is holding back your progression is your relative humility.

Maybe try POE2, it's more respectful of players time even though there are complaints (unfounded atm imo) about the length of the campaign.