Map sustain

I have rushed all the waystone quantity and waystone increased tier nodes in the Atlas tree.
I am rushing towers, and using waystone droprate precursors in towers.
I am doing boss maps for more / better drops.
I am Regaling most of my maps.

Currently I'm in tier 12 maps.
I'm almost exclusively dropping tier 5-8 maps, with which my sustain is impossible.

My gear has 80% Rarity. Unsure if this has an impact.

I have done all the right things, yet I am being punished by the game dropping poop tier waystones in tier 12 maps.

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EDIT:
Thanks a lot everyone for the help.

I think my main mistake was to use my current tier waystones for no-mod nodes between towers + towers as well, instead of using lower tier waystones for those.

I am now using lower tier waystones for tower rush + towers, and saving my current tier waystones for boss and/or irradiated + corrupted nodes, and am doing better.

I was already Regaling, but Exalting + Vaaling + Instilling those waystones for boss maps also helped.

I'm swimming in waystones now.

My advice is focus more on adding content to maps and less on +waystone drop chances. More enemies = more things that can drop waystones.

For getting t12 maps, try juicing a few t10 maps (6 mods, 1 delirium distill, corrupt it) then run the most favourable ones in zones with corruption + irradiation. If you can only get one, corruption is preferred as it actually adds enemies to the map.

I find doing this usually gives 3-5 waystones above the tier used. will still be a few dud maps that hardly have any, but other times ive gotten more than 15 from 1 map.

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Direfell#7544 wrote:

My advice is focus more on adding content to maps and less on +waystone drop chances. More enemies = more things that can drop waystones.

For getting t12 maps, try juicing a few t10 maps (6 mods, 1 delirium distill, corrupt it) then run the most favourable ones in zones with corruption + irradiation. If you can only get one, corruption is preferred as it actually adds enemies to the map.

I find doing this usually gives 3-5 waystones above the tier used. will still be a few dud maps that hardly have any, but other times ive gotten more than 15 from 1 map.

Thanks, that's a great tip.
I haven't looked into instilling maps at all yet, I'll try it out.

Update after using a tier 12 waystone with 2x exalt + vaal orb + instill in a irradiated + corrupted node:
I just keep getting more tier 5 waystones xD

:(

I have so many t16 maps that I don't know what to do with them. I have enough to the point where I can be as picky as I wish with the mods.

There's literally not enough corrupted nodes spawned near me for me to ever run out. No waystone for corruption means I have to find natural spawns so I can't just spam them. I have to travel to new corrupted areas.

And whenever I do travel (and therefore use my t15 maps, with no or few waystones) to new corrupted areas with towers on them, I drop so many more t15s that my map pool just gets bigger and bigger. I'm almost out of stash tabs due to waystones and tablets. I haven't run out of stash space in PoE1 in YEARS.

There's always one group people who cry about not having sustain, and there's another group of people who are just baffled, wondering what the first group is doing so wrong. Same as in every PoE1 league.

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PrimordialDarkness#3913 wrote:

I have so many t16 maps that I don't know what to do with them. I have enough to the point where I can be as picky as I wish with the mods.

There's literally not enough corrupted nodes spawned near me for me to ever run out. No waystone for corruption means I have to find natural spawns so I can't just spam them. I have to travel to new corrupted areas.

And whenever I do travel (and therefore use my t15 maps, with no or few waystones) to new corrupted areas with towers on them, I drop so many more t15s that my map pool just gets bigger and bigger. I'm almost out of stash tabs due to waystones and tablets. I haven't run out of stash space in PoE1 in YEARS.

There's always one group people who cry about not having sustain, and there's another group of people who are just baffled, wondering what the first group is doing so wrong. Same as in every PoE1 league.

I'm happy for you :)
I'm sure you have some tips to solve my issue ^^

boss kill have higher chance drop waystone. i always try to use my high drop chance waystone on boss.

also your atlas tree is important, before T15 i recommand to focus your atlas tree a bit more on + tier node

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jk2l#2865 wrote:

boss kill have higher chance drop waystone. i always try to use my high drop chance waystone on boss.

also your atlas tree is important, before T15 i recommand to focus your atlas tree a bit more on + tier node

I put my atlas tree in the post now ^^

I should probably just save my current tier waystones for boss maps, and use lower tiers for tower rush.

At T12 you have a weird situation in which map sustain feels broken. I was there too. Now I have 3 rows of T15 and a row of T16 maps in my stash.

What to do?

1. Loot all maps and try to craft them higher using the reforging bench.
2. Run Bosses
3. Use Precursor Tablets to irradiate maps, or add bosses
4. Rare Maps are enough. Use Alchemy orbs for a time. Use Vaal if your Build can handle most suffixes on Maps.
5. Don't die.
6. Run Bosses (for real. They are the key)
7. Try and get a 79+ boss kill to gain 2 or 4 skill points to boost boss Drop rates.

And honestly? Just keep it up. It's RNG. You may be very unlucky right now. And tomorrow you will find 4 T12 Maps in a T11 with +0% Waystone drop rate. Just buying a bunch of T15 is also an option. They have little to no value to most players that reached endgame and have map sustain.

Rarity btw does not have any impact on Waystone Drop rate.

If you die a lot, then that's the problem. "A lot" means once every 7 maps.