*sigh* Strongboxes and Map Sustain

So I have a "quick question".

I love the new Atlas Passives especially the Strongbox ones. But I can't help but to feel like there is something wrong with Cartographers Boxes and sustaining maps in general.

I have allocated each Strongbox Passive and I run Maps with 8-10 Strongboxes and forever what reason I don't get Cartographers Boxes anymore since idk at least 50-80 Maps (before that almost each of them was Unique god knows why). Divination and Operative almost each map up to multiple times tho.

I can't get over the feeling that it seems bugged to me and the map sustain in general feels weird.

Here is my current mapping strat:

- 11/12 favoured for Tower T16
- Map Atlas Passives
- All Strongbox Passives (do Cartographers Strongboxes even exist? If yes are
they also available in non-unique?!)
- Cartography Scarabs + Ambush Scarabs + Div Scarabs
- Master Missions
- Chisel Alch Vaal (most of the time above 100% quant"
- Sextants

I can't sustain my Tower maps no matter what I do. I tried running it with Two Voidstones with 3 Voidstones and now with 4 but I just can't farm a specific Map without having it to buy it in bulks and that should not be imo.

I get it, the favoured system might work, but when Maps are not dropping in the first place the favoured system can't even come in place.

So does anybody feel the same and have struggles with either sustain or finding cartographers. It just doesn't feel right.

I was really hyped for the new Atlas but that's a bummer.
Last edited by Aphex1993#5015 on Feb 12, 2022, 4:38:39 PM
Last bumped on Feb 12, 2022, 7:00:46 PM
Rare things are rare.
Carto boxes are not supposed to be common and this league maps are dropping way too much. I am full atlas with no trading and have +100 T16s. Even T16 Burials are 3C, it's literally not worth selling T16 maps for me.
Uploaded an awesome Exsanguinate Freeze Explosion build on the forums - https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3508506
Last edited by Kiss_Me_Quick#4554 on Feb 12, 2022, 6:56:00 PM
IIRC, unless they changed it, carto boxes only appear untill T13 or T14. Used to be the case in the past, not sure if its still the case.

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