Right off the bat, the differences between my findings pre-patch and post-patch are almost night and day. Done about 45 GR90’s so far, with an average of 3 floors per GR, and the preliminary results are quite promising.
Corvus - 5
Keeps - 11
Realm otB - 4
Pandemonium - 10
Act 1 Crypts - 2
Shrouded Moors - 7
Hell Rift - 8
Westmarch - 7
Plague Tunnels - 8
Arreat Crater - 6
Battlefields of Eternity - 5
Desolate Sands - 8
Zoltun Kulle (Storm Halls)- 6
Act 1 Caves - 3
Halls of Agony - 13
Tidal Cave - 6
Araneae - 3
Silver Spire - 10
Pet Sematary - 8
Greyhollow/Eternal Woods - 16
Firstborn Temple - 6
Sirocco Caverns - 2
Cathedral - 3
Festering Woods (Drowned Temple) - 8
Fields of Misery - 7
Act 2 Flooded Caves - 2
Tombs (Crumbling Vault) - 4
Desert - 10
Ice Caves - 3
The addition of the new maps is certainly making its mark. You still get from the time to time the BAD maps - aka those with an extremely irritating layout, but not as often as pre-2.7.3.
It occured to me to run ahead and check out the next floor or 2 post-completion just to see what’s there. But the result wouldn’t matter because the Grift is over. Will continue to update the numbers the more I play.
While I hate the rest of the patch, now grifting will be a bit less painful.
I think it also depends on the speed of your progress, how fast you’re clearing. Pylon spawns are not static, they’re dynamic. If you complete a grift and you run ahead to explore the next 1-2 maps you won’t see a single pylon.
Maybe you’re not clearing fast enough, which reduces your pylon spawns.
The thing is yes they gave US what 3 or 4 large maps. The only thing between those maps in a rift vs a GR. Is they took away some of the elites in GR’s. Take the one where you start & cross the bridge. That one you always clear it in a rift 99% of the time. I have done like 6 of them in a GR. Every one of them you only get 80% cleared. I have had to always go to another map to finish.
On pylons they only spawn if you are doing really good. If you are just keeping you head above the water. You not going to get them. They only reward you if you doing good. They don’t reward you if you are doing bad. The game has always been that way. Plus once you reach the RG. You will not get any more pylons that is how it works.
Plus I did a test one time on pylons. I did 10 GR’s at lvl 90 on each account. 80% of the time you only get 2. On the other 20% you get get 3 or 4 pylons.
On the maps let see, Hey people we gave you back the large maps. But don’t to tell any body we took away 1/2 the elites. But hey we know to won’t see anything just enjoy. LOL LOL
OH wait a minute have another thread talking about that Map. Talking about the same thing I point out on that map. Oh wait been here from day 1 & 3 accounts and all get for you fanboys forum Gods. That by you people I don’t know nothing about the game.
Here is the data on those games I tested. I did 10 games on two accounts. Doing less then 2 min solo 90 GR’s too. Here are Pylons I got: - 2,2,2,2,2,3,3,2,2,2 - 2,2,2,3,2,2,4,2,2,2.
So tell me how I’m getting the short end of the stick. WOW!!!
I’m no expert at all. I believe it’s possible to clear and progress so fast that you won’t get the max number of pylons (maybe depending on the map because on some maps I’ve gotten all four pylons in no time having two or three buffs up at the same time).
We’ll se how things turn out in s26 and if patch 2.7.3 has brought up some issues.
