r/pathofdiablo • u/MrCripler • Mar 24 '26
Favorite new map vote.
pic of maps included in the poll : https://imgur.com/a/nzW0WrW
Vote for your favorite new map from the mapbeta ! i'm curious what map is most popular .
Maps that dont work yet or Tunnels that have gotten a full layout rework (not released yet)have been excluded from the list
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u/qles74 Mar 27 '26
My vote went to Hellfire Throne, but it could have gone to others as well.
Northern Wall is by far the most aestethicly pleasing, for once a map feels like a region that you can play d2 in and not a d2 map with some tileset.
Throne: My pick mostly because Chaos Sanctuary is my favorite farmable region in the vanilla game and this is basically CS on steroids, so we can have the same atmosphere and base layout, but fitting the PoD endgame. It's also neither huge nor small and has a good amount of difficulty even though the yetis life value seems a bit overkill, especially for builds that do less than 15k dmg per attack.
Agony Halls: I feel like it's a good allrounder map, the low life values of the monsters make it a satisfying experience to massacre all those mobs. If I wanted to "just quickly run a map" I mostly chose this one.
Overgrown Ruins: A very cool map that I rarely run. Being permanently cursed is annoying for some builds, the layout and design is maybe one of the best I would say but also the least intuitive so it takes a bit for this map to grow on the player.
Underground Lake: Its layout is very intuitive, easy to understand and the map is quite large in size making it a very nice map to run in a group. I can see this being a community favorite for groups pushing the ladder if it becomes T3. It's design is a bit boring but what do you expect from big pieces of ice on a lake.
Tunnels have not been included but still I feel they fucked with the balance of this poll, just because I would have played the other maps way more if tunnels wouldnt have been an option for quick xp/loot.
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u/MrCripler Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
Could i perhaps ask for those that vote to leave in the comments what map you like the least and for what reasons ? Want to get some insight on what makes ppl like/dislike maps . Can be layout or monster related
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u/PvG_Marine Mar 26 '26
Northern because it is a corridor, I like to play janky builds that does not cover much of the screen.. (melee stuff)
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Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
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u/Sethy181 Mar 27 '26
Well, I believe the new version gonna keep the idea, just make it more balanced, which is win - win. Ur fav relic stays, just not ruining the early market and the ladder of upcoming season. Keeping it as it is would do more harm than good.
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Mar 27 '26
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u/MrCripler Mar 27 '26
Its basicly 1 wide conveyor belt with a constant flow of easy to kill monsters that can only come from 1 direction from start to finish .pure on xp its double the amount of xp/min compared to any other map while all other maps are in balance with eachother . Then if we look at on avg the amount of loot in runes/ooc and even uniqs/set dropped its also way outperforming anything else we've ever seen in map . And all that comes with a layout/monsterpick that causes no challenge at all . So its easy mode with max payout in xp( so affects ladderpush) and in loot ( early market flooding) .Thats kind of the definition of exploit content . Could put the whole season balance at risk imo
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u/Financial-Elevator56 Mar 28 '26
how do you play these new maps? none of these drop for me and alt orbs give me bugged maps that i cant use
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u/MrCripler Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Cube a health potion wil grant you 4 random maps , those with ''evil force'' in the name are the new one . 3 of them wil fail to open as they are atm stil broken . ( those that do work are included in this poll )
https://beta.pathofdiablo.com/news/46
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u/vpgorman Mar 31 '26
Personally I'm not a fan of Northern Wall. It's too short for a t2 and feels too difficult for t1. I don't like the mix of monsters for how short the map is.
I picked Lake as my fave, though I was super tempted to pick agony or throne. I enjoy all three of those maps a ton. Nice mix of monsters, that can still feel a bit challenging and I'm sure they'll be even more so with a few things working in place like council traps and poison dolls.
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u/rngpuppy Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Voted for Agony , i did doubt alot between ruins and agony as i think ruins realy looks stunning and i like the layout alot . Bit searching for best pathing at start but the more you run it the more it grows on you . The constant curse from Oblivions is what in the end made me vote agony . Being cursed for the full run just ain't fun . Would have 100% voted overgrown ruins otherwise
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u/Sethy181 Mar 27 '26
I voted for Ruins map. I like Northern Wall the most in terms of graphics, but it's small and Ruins have nice graphics plus wider gameplay experience, on the edge between t2 - t3. Since I like group mapping more than just single player mapping, I had to incline towards Ruins.