I have no direction with new atlas

I have no direction where to go, what to do... I Followed questline killed all 4 conquerors,Zana is not speaking to me, new NPC with brotherly complex also not speaking to me, I have no idea what to do next. I've been running yellow tier maps, but can't seem to get close to red tier,it seems I'm always going between tier 6-8. With the previous one, you had lines, you could see where the border was for white/yellow/red tier, current atlas seems like mindf*ck. Also for some weird reason, people on poe.trade are selling yellow tier maps the same price as red tier ones. It feels demotivating, I feel like I'm stuck at one place without a progress. Am I the only one?

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Roxan28 wrote:

Am I the only one?

No! You are not!! Look at the forum, almost everybody complaining!! GGG doesn't care, they want to slow down the pace in the game.

You aren't alone, it is unnecessarily convoluted and an unintuitive design. If this is the endgame now it will probably be the end of the line for me.

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jasonbgnh wrote:

If this is the endgame now it will probably be the end of the line for me.

Me too, now i have an excuse to quit the game, and play something else!

I like it thus far. Im just collecting more of those Watchstones to socket into my Atlas and unlock higher tier maps.
Killing Frankensteins Monsters. Sometimes getting rekt by content and sometimes plowing through content in return. Im in T12 maps by now and plan to reach endgame by end of the week. My build has a lot of room to grow.

Sadly, two of my regions seem to be bugged and dont spawn Watchstone Altars at all.

I was on T1-4 white maps forever 2 days ago and now I'm miraculously at yellows with one or two reds I probably can't do yet. I have no idea how I got yellows to start dropping, in fact I have 30 T4 maps and 3 T5 maps. I hope I don't run out of yellows

It feels like a limbo. Current questline says "Search different regions for Baran,Drox,Hezmin,Veritania". My atlas is completely clean. There is not any color, no pinpoint, no direction what maps nor area to run.

In previous Atlas it clearly said "Do T3-T4 etc.. Under Shaper/Elder influence" , "Kill shaper/elder guardians".. It was clear objective, you could clearly see whats your objective is, where is elder, where is shaper , at this moment I feel like I'm not playing PoE anymore. This is just for questline, reversed map system also annoys the living hell of me.

Also it seems to be huge misunderstanding between players and current atlast on poe.trade - People are confusing Yellow Tier map with red tier and are selling yellow maps for the price of red ones (Which also additionally slows down the atlas progress,unless you get extremely lucky with map drop RNG, but even then you wont get lucky all the time).

I don't know, at the moment I want to play PoE, but dude I'm literally one-shotting everything in yellow tier, I need to move in tiers, but it feels like i'm stuck. With my current gear, I need to run at least T12-T13 to feel like a challenge...

try this

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/eb0p67/guide_how_to_upgrade_your_atlas_with_pictures/

before i figured out how the atlas worked i was stuck at some t5 maps now i have 2red stones and 1 yellow one getting yellow maps now which feels good. after work imma get the blue and green stones as well and maybe 1 or 2 extra ones as well. guess we will see how rng does it's thing tonight also still have to do some labs :')

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pr13st wrote:

try this

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/eb0p67/guide_how_to_upgrade_your_atlas_with_pictures/

it good guide and i think everyone has understand this way to get boss , but the problem is progressionn is very very slow, because we need get good tier map after level up region oO , ggg must down 1 level a region level 3 requiere for some region