What is the goal of the game and what are the meaning of symbols at maps

[FrontenStuermer]

Hi,
didnt played poe before so what is the goal here ?
OYes, level up, become stronger but thats all ?
In Last Epoch you played a map and each gave you a bonus loot if you made it.
You had to go the same way like here, one map to the other to go forwards.

Is there any special loot with maps or is it only loot from bosses depending on waystone level ?

[Nico]

I guess the current final engame goal would be beating the boss in the burning monolith which requires finding and beating the 3 different citadels (which btw requires tier 15 waystones) to get the items needed to open up the monolith to face the boss. Though even that would only give you the first 2 skill points for its atlas skill treee, so I guess to get all 8 you would need to beat it at least 4 times, not even mentioning that without fighting the boss gain those points would be kinda worhless.

But in general there is no real fixed goal. You can decide on when you want to stop. You can just complete all quests, you could decide to collect all the atlas passive skill points, which also includes the league mechanic trees or you could just mke up your own point of when you stop playing. I guess once we're out of EA we also would get league challenges and I usually set those league challenges as my goal in PoE1.

Btw, for the symbols, usually when you can use a waystone it should also show you the tooltips for those icons.

[FrontenStuermer]

Thx for your answer