Atlas Passive Skill Tree Strategies Guide
Introduction
Since the release of Necropolis, we were yet again amazed by a mind-boggling Passive Tree to learn and incorporate into our endgame strategies. For newer players, this may be just as overwhelming as first pressing the level-up button when progressing through the Twilight Strand.
While this is not an exhaustive list of all of the different combinations of mechanics, these are some of our favourites for a variety of gameplay strategies.
As every node related to map sustain has been reworked, we cannot in advance predict how map sustain will feel. The rework to the atlas offers players an unprecedented ability to manipulate their atlas to contain exactly whatever they want it to and focus only on those mechanics.
As a result, we heavily recommend you open the atlas planner and look at it, as your preferences may differ from ours.
We will provide some suggested trees for players to look at and possibly follow, combining mechanics we feel fit well together. You should by no means feel like you have to do what we do, and you should feel free to experiment. We do however recommend you include at least some map sustain.
Early Atlas Progression
As a baseline, when beginning your Atlas journey, we highly recommend optimising the amount of higher-tier maps you gain to force your progression up as efficiently as possible. This type of setup doesn’t require many nodes and can be easily converted to your desired strategy later on with minimal effort. Picking up essence nodes early can make your gearing & progression significantly easier in the early days of the league, though you will want to prioritise the map sustain nodes.
This atlas likely overloads on map sustain. You probably will not need quite this much map sustain, but with this, you should have at least enough. Atroz is doing this himself, as he prefers not to think about the league start. It is likely not the most effective way of progressing map tiers, but as previously stated, it should have all the map sustain.
“Overloaded sustain: https://poeplanner.com/a/tRi
For the newest players, we have broken this tree into steps of we suggest you progress it.
Rush Kirac: https://poeplanner.com/a/t4a
Grab Shaping nodes: https://poeplanner.com/a/f13
Grab the remaining nodes: https://poeplanner.com/a/tRi
Atroz’s lazy farm – Expedition/Harvest/Shrines/Blue Altars
This atlas cuts off reasonably early at 111 points. You can take scarab nodes, conquered conquerors or whatever else suits your fancy once you get here.
Just note that you will have to drop Singular Focus if you want to farm Conqueror maps. They do not go well together.
Atroz’ lazy farm: https://poeplanner.com/a/t4X
Blight/Beast/Incursion/Red Altars
BBIR: https://poeplanner.com/a/tDg
Legion/Beyond/Red Altars
LBR: https://poeplanner.com/a/tGW
Oops, all map bosses
Destructive play + Jun. The Speedbossing bread and butter. There are enough points leftover to include a mechanic if you want.
Oops: https://poeplanner.com/a/tMv
80% Deli farm
Investment: Low to Medium
Deli: https://poeplanner.com/a/twl
Map: Dunes
Scarabs: 2x Delirium Scarab of Mania and 3x Delirium Scarab of Paranoia
Orbs: 4x Fine Delirium Orb (Currency) or 4x Diviner’s Delirium Orb (Stacked Decks).
The Ore nodes are here to spawn more mobs. We’re taking Virisium because it spawns the most mobs, and Verisium being present means the crater can spawn, so that we can fish for Svalin drops.
Skittering orbs exist, and are technically higher average profit. It’s more expensive and requires more understanding of bulk selling metrics to be truly profitable. Thus, not recommended for most guide readers.
Ghazzys Harby farm
GHF: https://poeplanner.com/a/tDW
This strat leverages explicit map modifiers for quantity and uses scarabs. It requires scarabs. Do not do this without scarabs.
Also, do not do this unless you have a good build, as the mobs get relatively tanky and deadly.
Since the Beyond clusters were moved and are as easily available as they are, we’ll be trying them.
The scarabs in question are:
All Harbinger Scarabs. Not the obelisk, it’s bad.
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Final Notes
As much as I love making guides, it is very crucial in a game like Path of Exile that you play the game the way you enjoy playing it. With that said, if you’ve made any tweaks to the trees compared to what I’m showing in this guide, I would love it if you shared them on the stream!
