I've been teaching my girlfriend how to play PoE this season (and what a season to introduce her to) and we recently hit maps, and have encountered a consistent issue where our conqueror quests won't advance when one is a guest in the map, and conquerors only drop watchstones for one of us.

I suppose this might be intentional to prevent it from being too easy to free-load and complete your atlas, but to have to run double the citadels, at least 1-2 extra maps in each region to start the questline/spawn the citadel for ourselves, for each conqueror, 32 times? We did the first 10 acts side-by-side with no issues, why split us up now?

I'm in the camp of people with the 40 hour workweek and not necessarily all day to devote to this game, so for me it's a significant time investment to complete the atlas on my own efforts, and it's somehow more effort to buddy up and do the same thing? Technically our map usage goes down significantly but with how many maps drop by default that seems a non-issue.

Rant over, I guess? Maybe I'm totally crazy and we've just got some wonky mismatched quest flags going on, but if this is the case I'd kinda hope for this to change, especially with the atlas expansion happening in December.

Happy mapping!