I’ve been exactly where you are—watching a temple go from “this could be interesting” to “why did I even roll this map” over the course of an hour, and the worst part isn’t losing the currency, it’s the quiet feeling of wasting your limited playtime. About four months ago I started printing
STL Models from my favorite games just to have something physical that reminds me why I enjoy the grind, and weirdly enough that helped reset my headspace: a bad temple night still stings, but holding a little resin statue of a boss I actually beat makes the loss feel smaller. The real advice is to stop forcing runs when the early rooms look cursed—cut your loss at 20 minutes instead of two hours, go farm something reliable like Alva’s other content, and treat the temple like a bonus spin, not your main gear source. GGG will likely tweak the reward curve eventually, but until then, protect your own energy first.