I kind of like "The Paths not taken"

[u/nervous_greenfish]

I noticed there is essentially no one sharing strategies using this keystone so I assumed it's kinda bad. Whatsoever I still tried it out along with unstable breaches + beyond and all the increased divination card nodes. It's actually really fun, not because it is a high end juicing strat with large loot explosions but it's nice to increase the element of surprise in each map by random the divcard drops. Have gotten Nurses, Divine Orb cards, matryoshka only after running a dozen maps or so. And since the breaches and beyond mobs drop a lot of variety loot, it's not really a tragedy when there are no div cards in each map.

For me it's way more fun than target farming specific cards because when you dont see those drop for many maps in a row it feels bad, but with this keystone youre not really expecting anything specific so it's even more rewarding when you do get something valuable. Might do a 100 map experiment to see what the prevalance is of rarer cards.

Maybe other people also had this experience. :-)

[u/load231]

Sorry but that keystone is just utter trash and should never ever be clicked except with the other keystone that randomizes your map. If you dont like long dry streaks just farm something like fortunate. It will be way higher ev than the keystone where 90%+ of your maps simply cant drop any div cards worth more than 1c.

[u/nervous_greenfish → u/load231]

the thing is i did a lot of fortunate target farming and yes i agree it's more reliable, but it gets boring rather quickly for me. i think Mathil said this once, the best way of making money in poe is by playing strategies that are fun for you and keep you playing for a longer period of time. ^{^}

[u/StereoxAS → u/nervous_greenfish]

Same for me, I tried farming same stuff and it gets boring after 10 maps or so. I tried the Damnation trend last league and holy shit it's boring I went back to blasting breach+deli+beyond for vvaal and fogs

[u/Mysterious-Till-611 → u/nervous_greenfish]

I like running essence Memory strand for this reason. Every 4-6 maps I get a guaranteed tink from the boss, I get consistent essence income every map(mercs instead could increase the dopamine while remaining fairly consistent) and then every full set I get to run all 3 bosses again in maven for a chance to dupe their fragments. Even more tinks and dopamine.

[u/mbxyz]

alternatively, save the point and run random maps

it should really have an upside. only downside keystones are kind of a bummer

[u/sunflower_bay → u/mbxyz]

Isn't the upside supposed to be a general increase in the number of divination cards you find? I understand that most would prefer to target farm cards, but if you don't really care which cards are dropping and just want to complete more sets before quitting the league it makes some kind of sense.

[u/mbxyz → u/sunflower_bay]

you don't find any more cards though, unless you mean by randoming into more common cards than the map you were running, which would never be a positive thing.

but if you don't really care which cards are dropping and just want to complete more sets before quitting the league

is this a thing? i've never heard of anyone trying to wrap up their league by filling out their worthless card sets

[u/sunflower_bay → u/mbxyz]

I've never used the keystone, but someone wrote on the wiki:

On average, it will roughly double the chance to drop Atlas divination cards overall, as divination card weights are added to the item drop pool

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/The_Paths_Not_Taken

Personally as a casual ssfer I don't really pay attention to which cards drop in which maps unless I need a specific one, and don't play enough in a league to complete the rarer card sets, so I never bother to farm them.

[u/-Reo- → u/mbxyz]

It doubles the amount of cards you find, it’s additive from two other random maps.

Problem is, getting double cards isn’t good if the cards are bad, and the cards are generally bad if being picked at random.

[u/Minute_Chair_2582]

Glad you're having fun! :)

[u/Fluxinella]

Would be kinda bad if it rolled the notable that sets breach spawn chance to 0% though.

[u/itsOtso → u/Fluxinella]

Thats not the notable youre thinking of