@Anon McDougle - For someone who literally lives on these boards AND comments on every single thing it's surprising you don't know the answers already. Your claim is exactly the same thing that popps posted over on the official forums. I guess you were too busy bashing him or saying "well if the Devs would give us clear direction" (or insert some other canned response from you). I'm not going to bother to link the thread because it's likely you won't even take time to read it because you would rather complain with baseless statements (many of which are incorrect).
I do kind of wonder if you actually play the parts of the game you are ranting about before you make your claims because this isn't the first time you have complained about something and it comes down to you not knowing how the game works. Allow me to correct the record for you so you can leave this thread alone and go rant somewhere else.
Show me on the list which of these monsters spawn in fel ?? I get my fel hoard maps from miasma totally random hardly a reliable source now i can summon corgy or scaly and hope but again hardly reliable sources..
4 | Hoard
(in a chest except for Dimetrosaur) | Dimetrosaur, Paragon Ancient Wyrm, Paragon Balron, Paragon Betrayer, Paragon Blood Elemental, Paragon Ethereal Warrior, Paragon Greater Dragon, Paragon Meer Eternal, Paragon Poison Elemental, Paragon Rotting Corpse, Paragon Skeletal Dragon, Paragon Succubus, Paragon Titan, Miasma, Pyre, Rend, Abcess, Putrefier, Master Theophilus, Stygian Dragon. |
5 | Trove | Allosaurus, Corgul the Soulbinder, Scalis the Enforcer,The Great Ape, Tyrannosaurus Rex |
*Class in session*
Stinky Pete already kind of stole my thunder here but it is worth repeating. Where are you getting your steady source of Tram Hoard/Trove maps? That's how you get your Fel maps (even though you have said repeatedly that you hate Fel and would never go there).
SPOILER ALERT!
I'm using your own post because you literally answered your own question. Hoard maps are "in a chest except for Dimetrosaur". So even though the Abcess & Putrefier are actually in Fel (as well as Tram), the maps you get from them are in a chest. What that means is that the hoard maps are going to be randomly generated no matter what. So it doesn't matter if you kill things in Fel/Tram/Malas etc. If you want to try for Trove maps then feel free to kill Corgul and Scalis in Fel (that accounts for 40% of the mobs that drop Trove maps).
The bottom line is that it's been the case for quite some time now (even dating back to pre-chest revamp) the best source of Trove maps (previously Diabolical) is to get them in a lower chest. That same thing is true to hoard maps. Your best source of hoard maps for any facet will be cache maps because they have a chance at having 4 "paper items" (SoTs/SoA/Powerscrolls/Maps) in each map. I've gotten 2 maps plenty of times and once I even got 3 maps in a chest. These will all be the same facet you dug the map up on. I'd actually argue that it is easier to get hoard/trove maps now after the revamp than before when you might get ONE map from the chest instead of 4 chances.
How do you get Fel cache maps? Again this goes back to what Pete already said... same way you would get Tram maps. You can either go hunt in Fel (again which you supposedly hate doing) or build a house in Fel (again which you hate) and drop a few rugs down. You get 1 per week. I have a ton of maps from this. I occasionally dig them up and if I leave the house with 10, there is a good chance I come back with 2-3 maps of a higher level. That is a much better return than killing mobs hoping for a map.
I still question, along with others, the value of a hoard/trove map over a supply/cache map. The supply maps are what have all the goodies in them. The cache maps are essentially a hoard/trove map with less items but a much easier spawn. I can run through 10 cache maps (also waiting out the timers) faster than doing 5-6 hoard maps and the loot quality is the same (maybe 3-4 less pieces). So if your argument is that "it's harder to get Fel hoard maps" then you should be subscribing to what I'm saying... it's easier & more lucrative to do lower maps anyways.
...but I guess if you did that then it would be one less thing to rant (inaccurately) about....
/*End schooling*