Maps drops, weird rng

So i got this problem with my elder t16 map...

So i run couple elder t15, nothing i run t16 same map with friend and maps rain on me. Next i can't get maps again i rung T16 guardians nothing special and returns again.

But for the life of me i run map with like 80+ quant, 1-2 sac fragments, 3 sextant and most of time elder or shaper and of course zana mod and i literally get not a single map of t1-t16 or uniq map for that matter for two maps in a row.

This is last map i run not single map have dropped two time in a row.


So someone got this plug - unplug rng of late?

If you track your map drops over the long run, as run more than 10 maps. It should paint a different picture.

It's not so match a map drop from maps in general it's more of a ELder T16 or even zana T15 map drops, its like all or nothing. Some time literally nothing.

I won't even ask if it was not so completely weird, what are the odds.

I've seen a t7 shaped flooded mine map drop from a t16 eldered haunted mansion boss. Anything can happen in poe.

Also white mobs barely drop any maps, beyond mobs don't drop any at all, strongboxes drop too much general junk etc.

Big deal are magic and rare mobs. Anything sextanted with "30% magic pack size" + maps with bloodline mobs + zana bloodlines showers you with maps if you track the average. Also the base density of the map you are running matters. Open maps are awful density and loot yield/maps since tehre are less mobs overall, indoor, long and complex layout maps often have x2 what fully open maps give.

i think the most i've gone without another t16 drop in a t16 map was 5 maps. 5 maps nothing.

keep in mind i'll sometimes get a map where i'll get 4-5 in one map. it averages out.

what i've learned in many years of mapping is, you can't "force" map drops.

you can do some crazy shit mob density/quant maps and get no maps in return (not even low level).
i've had streaks where i didn't get +1 maps for like 20-30 maps in a row. and this was WHITE maps! granted, this was 2 years ago.
now it is better (or didn't have such a streak since) but still if the game chose to not drop maps for you there is nothing you can do about this.

i just run some lower level alch+go maps until maps start dropping again.

as to WHY this is the case ... i don't know.
but i came to the conclusion (for me) that ggg put something in that biasses your map drops to be that streaky. (in the good and the bad direction)

i stopped using pathofmaps. but this was a very good program to track your map progression.

This is why I keep my chisels/sextants for selling and only use alch+vaal.

Enjoy Standard level barren in the league mapping.
Its all good and works as intended, as I got it.
Also many (if not all) maps have now less pack size and pack number.

So.
Do not expect maps to drop, they are intentionally made so much more gated than ever.

Why do I have 3.5 stash tabs full of red maps then? "More gated than ever", honestly they are even more common now than during Incursion.

If you want to sustain T16s you have to MAX EVERYTHING aka chisels, chaos rerolling, 4 sextants, frags, zana mod, extra mobs rolls, 120 quant and at least 3 mob prophecies active so if one won't proc, another does.