Doryani's Machinarium.

Yeah those types of challenges where you have to waste currency are just dumb, which is why I get them done as soon as possible in the first week. When I bought that unique map it was 1 div. The more you wait, the more expensive these kinds of "throw your currency away" challenges become.

A tip for doryani's machinarium though:
Delve has a catchup mechanic, I think when you hit lvl90 or something it automatically goes down to depth 100(lvl80) when you check Niko's chart if you haven't touched delve at all. Scroll through the whole thing top to bottom and see if you can find the vaal boss node, its like a yellow triangle thing I think.

That boss has a 16% chance to drop the map according to the wiki, just do 1-2 azurite nodes down at lvl80 first so you can upgrade your darkness res and light radius(and flare radius too) before fighting him, and buy like 5-6 flares in case you need them during the darkness phase.

When I checked my delve this league I had 2 boss nodes spawned even at only depth 100 from the catchup, the map didn't drop so I just bought one. Always check your delve catchup once you hit lvl90, cus you could get lucky and get the map.

Also I've gotten the map from the "create unique map" beast too, so that's definitely possible but I have no clue what the chance is.

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twostroketom#5281 wrote:

Since you compare the drop rate to that of Putrid Cloister, you seem to think that Doryani's Machinarium drops normally from monsters. It doesn't. It's an exclusive drop from the Vaal boss in Delve. It has a drop rate of about 1/6 from the boss, so not too bad. But you'll have to delve to farm it. I'm not sure if Rin in Fortification can also give you that map.

As a Delve enjoyer I've never had problems finding the map. In fact, I have 2 extra in my (SSF) stash xD

Do you farm around 60-65 depth in Delve so only Vaal areas can spawn?

I have 3 lanes going right side. One at around 65 one at 95 and one at 115.

Have not yet try-harded to farm it yet but i will try to farm the 60ish range first and see how it feels.

Unique maps need a complete revamp. Most of them offer absolute nothing in return anyway.

Doryani is a more notorious foul aggressor because they keep putting it on challenges (so much for the "hey you don't have to run hall of the grandmasters anymore haha" but it's worse now pay 20+ divines every league this map is on challenge list to do while getting nothing as return is lame)

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gandhar0#5532 wrote:

Do you farm around 60-65 depth in Delve so only Vaal areas can spawn?

I have 3 lanes going right side. One at around 65 one at 95 and one at 115.

Have not yet try-harded to farm it yet but i will try to farm the 60ish range first and see how it feels.

Honestly, I have no idea what the optimal depth to farm the map is. I usually just go down and pick up the bosses as they come. But the area level has to be at least 72. Not sure if that is the case at depth 65.

Does the seer ever sell it?

+1

It sucks that the only reason this map has any value in the first place is because of a combined rarity, a source that can't be easily located, and largely demand through challenge completion.

The cost makes so much more sense if it had a good reward at the end, but it simply doesn't.

GGG either needs to make the map worth running for its own sake, or remove it as a challenge.