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During Delve, I decided to finish the last few achievements I had left to round out my "poe experience". I slogged through All Ears (failing twice) and no stone unturned. Got lucky with a 5 essence, etc. And I was done. It's one of my proudest gaming achievements (next to 100%ing Super Meat Boy).
Betrayal comes along and changes the masters. Lo and behold, while progressing through my usual 36/40 challenges, I notice that my achievement list had dropped from 120/120 to 119/120; obviously, the culprit was the new masters list and my lack of favor with them.
I was perturbed, but I powered through them, expect for Alva, which took me a week of research and dedicated T3 room hunting, and trade 820 spamming (there was a very little public information and the little helpful notification bubble hadn't been credited or expanded on yet). But I endured it, because now I would be done with 120/120 once and for all.
In comes Synthesis, which adds Jun to the list, and AGAIN, I'm back down to 119/120. Now, despite having already progressed fairly significantly through the league (34/40, 94 char, 93 char), my Jun is still at level 6 and I can't level her further. I've been trying for ten days now.
First, you have to find Jun. We already know how difficult this is. You get one daily, a slight random chance, and a possible prophecy. During a day of playing (like on a weekend), where I can put in 8-10 hours of play in one sitting, I'm lucky if I encounter Jun (by any of the aforementioned means) 8 or more times. Mind you, I'm also trying to complete my last two challenges, which force me to engage with the Nexus, not to mention all of the other mechanics that pull you in different directions lest you want to sacrifice the gains from any one of them (delving, alva temples, nexus, etc.).
Let's say I do encounter Jun, there's a chance I won't get all three encounters and only see two. That happens maybe 80% of the time.
The crux of leveling Jun is to defeat all masters when they are at rank 3. This is essentially an exercise in futility. First, you have to meet the same master multiple times. Additionally, when you meet them, you have to be given the option to rank them up.
Well, at some point in the last few patches, they must have tuned down the number of opportunities we get to rank up a master, because I get the option to "+1 to rank" maybe 30% of the time.
And if that's not enough RNG for you, syndicate progress is character bound. So, if you DO want to rank up all the masters to rank 3, you have to do it on one character (it may be possible to target different masters on different characters, but there's no confirmation).
I think I have 184 hours played in this league already, and I still have to kill three more masters at rank 3 and I don't see myself reaching that mark any time soon.
And I'm doing all of this to earn the same achievement I have earned twice before because GGG decides to retroactively undo all that work. This has been a terrible player experience.
TL;DR
My third time completing the same achievement. Leveling Jun to rank 7 has been an exercise in futility. Still three masters away from ranking her up despite going hard all league.
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