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since the release of poe 3.6 synthesis league, a lot of people have been struggling with sustaining their maps, so goldkk.com here will bring a path of exile map sustain guide, with some tips for sustaining maps in poe synthesis league introduced, helping you sustain your maps and progress your atlas especially for synthesis beginners.
related read: path of exile 3.6.3c patch notes
best path of exile map sustain tips - 11 best ways to sustain maps in poe 3.6 synthesis league
choose a build that can run all poe map mods
i am playing such a build, i'm playing a little passe blight with cast while channeling soul rent. and then i'm going to be switching maybe to essence drain contagion that can do virtually any build, because i'm playing as a trickster, so i have like different ways of recovering my life and mana and i'm never worried about reflect. so if you are playing something like mines totems traps or chaos damage builds, you will be able to run more mob mods there, therefore you will be able to run more maps just you find random maps and you'll be able to run them without reroll in which saves the currency and time and you just get more.
run unidentified maps for +30% quantity
they are very easy and safe to do if you are running something like build or something like mines totems traps, so that's another way of like just sustaining your poe maps way more. whenever you find unidentified map you can just run memory fragments even if you don't interact with the nexus. i'm doing the fragmented memories by just running them like i have maximum ten of those fragments in my inventory and the nexus, so i don't even bother clicking the thing to stabilize them, i just go kill all the big packs of monsters if there are some good lutes there, then i can just pick them up. so i don't have to wait for the loot explosion later and then run into the blue zone and you're done with that will give you some map drops, some more currency and it's just free experience in free mobs, it is just like a corrupted zone just like incursion, it's just additional monsters in your map. also look for additional ways outside of mapping that can give you maps.
look for surveyor’s study in incursions & focus on reaching cities while delving
the temple incursions is one of the rooms that you can upgrade and it will give you more maps, because whenever you run the tempo, you will also have natural map drops, but also you will have that room with the maps and it has chests containing maps, so that's very helpful. also, delving towards cities frequently have chests that contain maps, and these maps don't need to be unlocked on your atlas, so it's a really good way to progress your atlas completion. so do the temple incursions, do delving whenever you are reaching maximum sulphide, just go and delve deeper and deeper and try to find cities.
rin in betrayal gives map related rewards
whenever you encounter rin in betrayal, she gives a cartography scrubs and maps depending in which of the four safe houses you're going to have her. so rin in betrayal also helps with maps.
avoid 3 to 1 map recipe unless necessary
try to avoid doing the three to one recipe for maps of higher tier, like you sell three maps that are the same and then you get one map that is hired here, try to avoid that unless you need to unlock that specific map for your atlas, because it will eat into your map very fast. it is often just better to quickly run those maps and get more drops instead, then trying to get it one tier higher because it's not that big of a difference like three drop of tier 5 will have better drops together combined than one map of tier 6. it's better to run three of those tier 5 drops and just get more drops.
invest poe currency into your maps early & look for efficient sextant opportunities
- don't be afraid to use poe currency on your mouse, that's like the biggest mistake that i see you can use alchemy orbs on mobs very fast as well as spare of all fragments, just make sure to pick up unique item like rare jewelry, because it's small in your inventory to sustain your alchemy orbs and then you can just alec every single map you're running. if you're running a good build you can run pretty much every single map of those alked once you don't even have to read them. so that's also helping write in hard core. you might want to read them especially in higher tier maps for like crazy damage mods that you might want to avoid, but that's just something that helps whenever you have.
- for example, three of the same map you wanna run throw a white sextant on it, i've often seen people holding sextants for no reason and struggling to progress with their map drops being low, it's just better to use the currency early on and get to higher maps faster, because you'll make up that currency later at a much faster rate. so just use your alex even you can use chisels and to more and more maps. and then later you can buy them or get more drops in higher maps, it definitely helps with the progression.
constantly use prophecies
keep spending your silver coins on prophecies, and the prophecies that are bad like you can get rid of them, for example like the quests for uniques that you're not going to ever run, you just seal that in your inventory or throw it into a stash tab where you sell things for one chaos, maybe someone wants that, and then just spam other prophecies until you get something you know with items. you don't even have to read them, just automatically whenever you are not capped on prophecies, get more prophecies you jump into the map and some prophecies pop, and then you just keep doing that, and that will give you more monsters in your maps just randomly, which means more chances to drop additional maps.
quickly run lower tier maps
if you have maps and you struggle to sustain higher maps, just run the lower maps, you will get currency from them, you can buy the higher ones. the more maps you run, it's way better to just keep running maps, keep running delves. for example, you want to do yellow maps and you cannot sustain glory, you want to do red maps and you cannot sustain it, then you just go delft you just go do your tempo, go do betrayal safe house, go do nexus, whatever you have, that is not map and then you will get some maps and then you can go back to running maps, so that's what you can also do or you can just drop to exhaust.
related read: path of exile 3.6 atlas strategy guide (2019) - best shaper & elder map tips
hope these map sustain tips can help you a little bit with sustaining maps in poe!
