[3.3] Gilded Cage's Comprehensive Guide to Maps

Nice and helpfull altho kinda astonishing that my personally easiest maps get the high ranks.

Are you planning to upload the spreadsheet information to the Wiki? Currently this guide is more complete :(

Never ever seen portals in elder's map.

Great guide

Fantastically detailed guide that any new player should at least glance at. Well done!

First of all thank you a lot for the Effort GuildedCage really well written guide i can't afford too much time to read it carefuly today bit busy but from what i saw explanations are really accurate ! :)
Will read it again sure thing.

I did suggest to add to this quoted part that if you use trans or alchemy when vendoring your three maps you will obtain an unid magic or rare map at the end.
Maybe it's not a common practice but the 30% quantity bonus simply using transmutation orbs is always nice to have for atlas progression, with low tiers maps.
Also relevant for UNID map challenge :)

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GildedCage wrote:

Trading three of the same maps to any vendor will give you a single map of the next tier up. For example, trading three tier 1 Beach maps will yield one tier 2 Desert map. This vendor recipe is very useful to obtain new maps on the Atlas. For details about what each map upgrades to see the map spreadsheet.

Helio

you dont need to read this here the most important stuff: Missing a description how and when you can obtain all the shaper orbs!


I have three big issues with the atlas system and all of them are intertwined:

1: in the beginning of the league, i was just chaining every map i could find, unluckily i got the elder very early in tier 1-4 maps before i even had my first shaper orb. the elder blocked me from progressing like i was used to be. in your guide i miss how to aquire ALL shaper orbs. i am lvl 96, sitting on 38 challenges (i can have 40 in a blink of an eye) and i just got my 15th shaper orb a week ago after killing elder over 18+ times. it feels so random and without a red thread you know to follow to get the shaper orbs.

2: making elder spawn sometimes is infuriating. i run the neighboured maps but there is no progress at all or a slight progress that has been made just gets deleted. sometimes i get lucky and it just works. i often have troubles when elder spawns on the south/east side of the atlas.

3: since i had trouble with finding shaper orbs i decided to go full completion. i have to admit i anticipated i might be forced to go full completion to play the new content to the fullest (cant enjoy it because point 2) but what really annoys me i want to play shaped maps only. you have to buy a lot of maps if you chase the elder, especially those with good layout (summit, basilica etc). i would prefer to not be forced next league to be drawn away from a shaped atlas.

Make one char to have fun with one strat. It dies or u wanna make new and u realise how much pain it's to remove elder from t14 without boss killer. Not to mention amount of sextant blocking and stuff u set up for your next thing.
nice leag if u wnna try one thing and quit

not to mention how much pain i t's to get the elder influence permanently on your map.

nice guide!

I have a couple questions:

1) In an Early video from GGG is saw a shaper guardian get eaten by the elder. I think it was the Hydra. Is it possible for the shaper guardians to be influenced at this time? or was that just an early video, and this got changed later?

2) Is the vaal temple the highest tier map that can be influenced by the Elder?

3) When I try move the elder influence over my atlas before the elder has spawned, I got a feeling the influenced area gets "rubber banded" back to roughly the same position it started.
This could indicate the elder and his guardian spawn points are somehow assigned before it actually happened, and is not totally random. I have to collapse the entire elder influence before I can relocate it else where. Anybody else with the same experience? correct me if I'm wrong.


Thx in advance for your replies!