PoE 2 0.3 Best Atlas Tree & Mapping Strats for Currency Farming

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PoE 2 0.3 Atlas and Map Juicing Guide

Now follow us to get all atlas points fast, set up the most effective atlas tree, maximize your rewards, sustain maps easily, and set up your build for long-term success in the endgame:

PoE 2 0.3 Early Atlas Tree & Mapping Strategy for Currency Farming

After completing the campaign, players are introduced to the Atlas system in Ziggurat Refuge, where Doriani prompts you to begin mapping. The Atlas is a massive map, filled with zones shrouded in fog, representing unexplored content. Your journey starts at the edge of this map, and your main goal is to seek out corrupted zones, which are easily identifiable even through the fog.

Corrupted zones contain a nexus and are vital for progression. Each time you clear one, the surrounding maps become cleansed, and you’re rewarded with five Atlas passive points. These points are crucial for powering up your mapping experience, enabling you to increase monster density, loot, and map variety.

The following strategy is perfect for players just finishing the campaign and ready to optimize their endgame mapping experience in Path of Exile 2: Rise of the Abyssal. 

• 1. Progression: Corrupted Zones and Passive Points

When starting out, your immediate focus should be locating and clearing corrupted nexuses as quickly as possible. Each successful corrupted nexus completion turns the area into a cleansed zone and grants you five Atlas passive points. This process must be repeated several times, typically six, to accumulate 30 points. The final 10 Atlas points needed come from completing five unique maps found across the Atlas.

Towers play a supporting role, providing additional vision and allowing you to insert tablets for extra map mechanics and loot bonuses. As you progress, always ensure to transmute and augment every map you run. Regals are very affordable, so it’s a good practice to regal maps as well. Exalting maps isn’t advised until you reach higher tiers or want to maximize lower-tier juicing.

Your Atlas progression is tightly linked to boss maps. Completing boss maps increases your map tier, allowing you to climb up to tier 15. Boss tablets can be used to spawn additional bosses, speeding up your tier progression. If you ever fail a corrupted Nexus, you must find and clear a new one, so use the lowest viable tier and easiest mods to ensure success.

• 2. Upgrading and Sustaining Maps

Doriani’s shop is always stocked with maps one tier below your highest completed tier. This makes it easy to maintain map sustain by purchasing lower-tier maps and upgrading them at the reforging bench, which is accessible from Act 3. By combining three of the same base-type maps, you can create a map of a higher tier. This system not only helps sustain your mapping but also lets you upgrade excess maps for more challenging content.

It’s also advised to invest in the premium map and currency stash tabs if you plan to play long-term, as these make organizing and running maps much smoother.

• 3. Efficient Use of Tablets and Towers

Throughout your Atlas journey, you’ll collect tablets, which can be inserted into towers to grant various modifiers to maps within their range. Tablets can be modified using transmutation and augmentation orbs to add effects, increasing rewards and map mechanics. Using overseer precursor tablets with towers is especially effective, as these add bosses to maps, allowing you to further upgrade your waystones by defeating them.

When running maps, especially early on, it’s not always necessary to juice them heavily, but as you progress, using towers and tablets to maximize loot becomes increasingly important. The more tablets and modifiers you use, the more lucrative your mapping sessions become.

• 4. Recommended Atlas Skill Tree Build and Mapping Strategy

For your Atlas passive skill tree, prioritize nodes that increase shrine effectiveness, rare monster spawns, and pack size. More pack size translates directly into more experience, more loot, and a more efficient mapping experience. As you gain more points, expand your tree to include mechanics like strongboxes and essences.

Essences are highly valuable, not only for crafting but also for currency generation. New essences in Rise of the Abyssal can sell for substantial amounts, and each essence encounter guarantees another rare monster in your map. Strongboxes are also a top priority; they frequently drop valuable currency and crafting materials.

When juicing maps, use Alchemy orbs and Regals to reach six modifiers. From there, apply zelium orbs or other map-enhancing currency based on how much you want to invest. Paranoia orbs are great for high-end juicing, while diluted liquids and guilts provide budget-friendly options. Aim for maps with tower overlaps, particularly in cleansed or corrupted zones, as overlapping towers grant significant quantity and rarity bonuses for loot.

• 5. Gear Progression and Market Tips

While mapping, you’ll encounter essences encased in rare monsters. These are important for crafting gear upgrades or for selling. Use them to guarantee specific mods on your equipment, such as maximum life or resistances, which are key to surviving higher-tier content.

If you need to upgrade your gear, use the in-game market (auction house) to search for specific item types and stats. Filter by stats like maximum life, resistances, armor, or energy shield depending on your build. The market interface allows sorting by stat values and price, making it easier to find the best upgrades for your budget. Learn to use trade filters and price-checking tools to evaluate and sell items that don’t fit your build.

• 6. Hideout and Efficiency

After completing the Hostile Takeover quest, you’ll gain access to your hideout. This personal space allows you to organize crafting benches, stash tabs, and NPCs for maximum efficiency. Keeping your hideout organized and compact minimizes downtime between maps, letting you focus more on mapping and less on logistics.

PoE 2 0.3 Endgame Atlas Tree & Mapping Strategy for Currency Farming

For those aiming to maximize currency in Path of Exile 2 patch 0.3, a focused approach to juicing maps, optimizing towers, and setting up tablets is key. The following strategy is based on current testing and practical results, and while there may be more methods still to test, this setup has delivered strong returns so far.

• 1. Map Rolling

Start with rolling your maps for maximum value. Use three Liquid Paranoas per map, each providing 15% increased rares, for a total of 45% increased rare monsters in your maps. Rare monsters and bosses are the primary loot sources, so this boost directly impacts currency drops.

After adding Paranoas, ensure every map is six-modded. This can be achieved using Regal and Exalted Orbs or Alchemy and Exalted Orbs. Every extra modifier adds more rarity, pack size, and rare monsters.

For the next layer, you have two options:

• Corrupt your map to reach eight mods, which adds further bonuses.

• Use Omen of Chaotic Rarity, a new addition in this patch. Using this Omen and then a Chaos Orb guarantees 100% map rarity, converting all modifiers to provide rarity. This increases currency quality, making it possible to obtain items like perfect Divines, Exalts, Regals, and Chaos Orbs.

Corruption is a cheaper route, while Omens are pricier but more consistent for maps with low natural rarity. If a map already has high rarity, you can simply corrupt it; if it has low rarity, use the Omen for guaranteed results.

• 2. Tower Setup

When setting up towers, aim for two main configurations:

• Two Tower Setup: Both towers should overlap in a cleanse zone. Completing a corrupted nexus in such a zone cleanses all adjacent maps, and cleanse monsters in these areas drop additional currency.

• Three Tower Setup: Here, three overlapping towers in a region provide a 50% increase in tablets, translating to 50% more quantity.

Focus on either three-tower overlaps or two-tower overlaps with a corrupted zone. Nexus completion and running all cleanse maps within two-tower range is highly rewarding. You can also include citadels around your towers to obtain fragments that can be sold. For consistent results, running every two-tower overlap is an option, but it is less rewarding.

• 3. Tablets Setup

Tablets play a pivotal role in this strategy, especially when combined with three-tower overlaps. Aim for tablets with 5-7% quantity, ideally 6-7%, and always include Breach on every map. One or two Breach tablets in a three-tower setup are usually enough.

If you have all points in an Expedition tablet, running Expeditions is also worthwhile; they can be cleared quickly and provide strong loot. Include at least one or two Boss tablets and a Precursor tablet. Boss tablets grant plus one to level zones, which is useful for crafting or selling bases.

Keep an eye out for mods granting additional rare monsters or rare modifiers, but always prioritize quantity. Even if you get a Delirium tablet without direct benefit, the quantity makes it worth using. Including a Breach and a Precursor tablet on every map ensures you’re maximizing both currency drops and crafting potential. Higher zone levels from these tablets also contribute to experience gain.

• 4. Travel Maps

For travel between towers, continue using six-modded maps. Special attention should be given to six-mod free Delirium maps, which drop frequently and can be stored in your Delirium tab.

One of the first Atlas points to take is "Get Out of My Head" for a 20% chance that maps drop with a random Instilled Emotion. This adds value to maps you run while traveling between juiced areas and can provide a steady stream of extra currency.

The Grand Project is another tool for traveling efficiently. Placing it allows you to access any map within its circle, even if the map isn't connected to your current path. This is particularly useful for skipping large distances or jumping directly to another corrupted zone with a tower. Although the Grand Project costs around 30 exalts, the time saved justifies its use.

• 5. Current Atlas Tree

The current Atlas tree focuses on maximizing the impact of tablets, as these are presently the only source of quantity on maps. Taking all top tablet effect nodes increases quantity, directly boosting item drops.

Precursor influence nodes for more tablets are also very strong. Rare monster nodes give 20% increased rares and a duplicate rare, making rare packs more rewarding. Additional quantity nodes are valuable since few sources of quantity exist.

Beyond that, you can choose to take strongbox nodes for extra divines, or swap out for more map effect nodes if preferred. "Unstable Energies" is especially useful this patch, as all modifiers now grant increased rarity, further improving loot. Essence and Shrine nodes are also options; Shrines in particular offer good survivability boosts for less robust builds.

Currently, Expedition and Ritual nodes are being skipped due to bugs, but once fixed, they become worth including. Focus remains on Breach and Delirium content due to their reliability. Boss tablets are valuable because they can apply plus one to level zones and occasionally provide a corrupted map bonus.

Crafting remains a consistent source of profit alongside mapping, so keep bases for crafting as you run maps.

We will update the best atlas tree build and mapping strategies for mid and end game later, stay tuned!