Map drops

[Amazingly Randy]

So, the end game is massive and infinite, why are maps and map drops just not there? You know, so that I can progress? Sure, I can buy t1 and t2 maps. I've got buffs for map drops, I juice maps, and I'll get a map 3 tiers lower than I need. If one drops at all. I don't get it.

Why make them hard to get exactly? What's the point in that?

[Floppa]

build issue

[This PC]

Why am I dropping so much maps I don't know what to do with them ? Often 2 tiers above the map am doing too. They're really not hard to get if you know how to make them drop. :P

Like, I don't even have enough appropriate maps for the objective I have for atlas points, I sped past it and am mostly running higher level maps. :P

[Baron01]

Once you get your Atlas points and realize how important precursor tables and certain Atlas mechanics, such as boss, irradiated or corrupted, are you will quickly start to sustain your maps and eventually get to a point where you have overabundance of them.

I firmly believe precursor tables are very important early in your Atlas progression as they can help you with pushing into higher tiers of maps without actually dropping such maps. Those precursor tables can also have two affixes, both positive, that will apply to all maps in tower range not only those, which get the league mechanic applied to. You can juice up your Atlas in certain area by navigating via shortest path from tower to tower and getting as many tablets in with league mechanics and positive effects. You can run irradiated boss maps with a waystone with increased waystone drop chances--due to negative effect or suffixes on it--to massively increase your chance of getting more maps. Bosses should be your main source of maps when you progress your Atlas. Map boss in my T15, not really juiced with anything other than tablets/towers, usually drops two T15 maps and I had as many as four drop few times.

[PEPE OSEPE]

I had exact the same issue as you had. I just bought some high maps on the market and upgraded them with orb of alchemy. If the map drop pct was low, I also used a Vaal Orb to get something like 200-400% map drop on a t15 card. After doing that, I have plenty maps now, which I can use.

[Nozba]

Get some magic find gear it will increase the rarity of and tiers of gear, currency, maps
I got a huge increase in quality drops after I went from around 20% magic find to 75%.
2 divine drops over the span of 5 maps. Magic find is a must have.

Watch the dev stream with Ghazzy and DM that was yesterday where they explain how magic find is tied into quality and quantity of dropped items.

[Baron01]

I would not recommend investing Atlas points into nodes that increased waystone rarity, especially in early end-game as you try to progress through your map tiers. The reason is that PoE2 does not have scouring orb and if a map drops with mods you can not run, it is effectively wasted for you and you just store it to be later 3to1 to next map tier. You can not 3to1 corrupted maps at all so if they drop with bad mods and corrupted you can toss it out.

You can always transmute and augment all your maps and eventually drop a Regal orb on them. You will never run out of those orbs. Alchemy orbs are way too rare to be used early in end-game but you can probably sustain them easily when you reach T14-15 maps just by buying them from time to time.

Getting T16 maps is more annoying as your have to corrupt them as that is the only way to get T15 map. This is all the more reason to use transmute, augment and Regal method as the resulting T16 map should be manageable. It can always turn into T16 and be rerolled into something mad but that is the way Vaal orbs work.

[NixBoxDone]

Invest in waystone quantity and rarity to begin with until your build gets beefy enough to clap bosses.
Then just make sure you run bosses every two or three maps with juiced up maps. 300 % plus waystone quantity is possible.
I've had 5 tier 15 waystones drop from a boss before.
If that's not enough, grab tier 14s and tier them up using the recombobulator.
Don't use good waystones for empty maps or towers - a tier 1 will unlock the tower just as good as a tier 15.

[fx!]

It isn't hard. Don't die, path to bosses, do breaches if you have a good clear. When you get 2nd atlas passive book from t16 map boss, you will swim in maps soon enough.

[SwayzeRIP]

Exalts drop a lot and most all maps are 1 exalt so just trade.

[Psikraut]

Never had any issues with map sustain. Git gud.

[kekkuli]

I don't know what people are doing but i have WAY too many maps, 2 quad tabs full of t 14-15 maps in fact. Doing white maps perhaps? Dying too much?

[bobroonie.bda]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Once you get your Atlas points and realize how important precursor tables and certain Atlas mechanics, such as boss, irradiated or corrupted, are you will quickly start to sustain your maps and eventually get to a point where you have overabundance of them.

I firmly believe precursor tables are very important early in your Atlas progression as they can help you with pushing into higher tiers of maps without actually dropping such maps. Those precursor tables can also have two affixes, both positive, that will apply to all maps in tower range not only those, which get the league mechanic applied to. You can juice up your Atlas in certain area by navigating via shortest path from tower to tower and getting as many tablets in with league mechanics and positive effects. You can run irradiated boss maps with a waystone with increased waystone drop chances--due to negative effect or suffixes on it--to massively increase your chance of getting more maps. Bosses should be your main source of maps when you progress your Atlas. Map boss in my T15, not really juiced with anything other than tablets/towers, usually drops two T15 maps and I had as many as four drop few times.

This.. Beat tower, place in precursor tablets that give higher quality, quantity items and increase the same on Atlas map till you upgrade Waystones. Soon you're stacking orbs and waystones in abundance.

[This PC]

Originally posted by RyuK:

What a mystery... if you know how to make them fall ^ .^ sounds good.
Shaking the PC?

Atlas points + a little bit of magic find + juiced maps.
It's not really a secret lol. Maps litterally tell you +275% waystone drop chance. :P
This is why I call people with no experience here "tourists", they complain about problems that already have solutions or complain about problems that aren't problems, and proposing solutions that would break the experience. Is all born out of selfishness and inexperience with the game.

[DYNIA]

don't die so you won't miss maps lol

[pepipapa100]

Originally posted by fx!:

It isn't hard. Don't die, path to bosses, do breaches if you have a good clear. When you get 2nd atlas passive book from t16 map boss, you will swim in maps soon enough.

It was one of the most idiotic suggestion that I ever seen....And what until T16?