Waystone sustain is horrible

I have all the atlas points that increase waystone drop rates, rarity and tiers, including the boss nodes. I regal all my waystones for drop rates, I use the +1 level tablet on every tower along the way... most of the waystones I see are below T12, the T14+ ones just simply don't drop that consistently.

The only semi-reliable way for them to drop is doing boss nodes, and even those don't always guarantee a drop. Plus, there aren't that many boss nodes, and I don't want to put in a low-tier waystone for the in-between nodes, waste 5-15 minutes per node (since some of the maps are just way too big), just to get to the boss node. That can not be the intended gameplay.

Sure, I can spend 2-3 exalts to get them on the trade site, which I have been doing. But it's just not a fun experience to get out of the game, open up the trade site, trying to snacth a 2 ex map before everyone else every time you lose your sustain. And what about SSF players? Do they just go back to T11 maps and farm up every time they used up their T15s?

If I spend all my atlas points on waystone drops, I should sustain my T15s easily, end of story.

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i thought so too until i started taking the atlas nodes that increase % of waystones and some rarity on my gear. it's no problem now that i'm in t7s. at some point, i'll take more rarity and drop some of the waystone atlas nodes and see how it goes.

e: dont forget to buy waystones from doryani and use the bench to combine lower level stones 3 to 1 into the next level

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i thought so too until i started taking the atlas nodes that increase % of waystones and some rarity on my gear. it's no problem now that i'm in t7s. at some point, i'll take more rarity and drop some of the waystone atlas nodes and see how it goes.

Already did. It does work early on but the higher you go, the harder it is to sustain.

Combine won't work since I don't have enough T12 and T13s to make into T15s. (You need 9 T13s to make 1 T15, and 27 T12s.)

dropping white t2 and t5 maps when running 6mod t14s and t15s is peak poe2 atlas experience

for me around t7-t8 is where things started to feel bad - waystone drops just get extremely scarce and cant complete the current tier.

prior to that was able to complete current tier and have at least 5 of the next tier lined up.

atlas spec: waystone quantity + waystone level + waystone rarity

also been using aug/transmute/regal to try to hit >+100% waystone drop chance on each.

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blazingoh#7373 wrote:

i thought so too until i started taking the atlas nodes that increase % of waystones and some rarity on my gear. it's no problem now that i'm in t7s. at some point, i'll take more rarity and drop some of the waystone atlas nodes and see how it goes.

e: dont forget to buy waystones from doryani and use the bench to combine lower level stones 3 to 1 into the next level

Wait until you hit T9/T10, there's a wall.

OP is exactly right. I also have my atlas tree specced the same way and it's impossible to sustain T15 maps.

Can confirm, Trading is basically necessary to sustain T15 mapping. You get Poorer from juicing these waystones trying to sustain and make 0 profit.

Completly agree, It's Trash even at 400% drop rate and Quality % upgraded you get dogsh!t. You get Waystone T2-3 dropping 90% of the time in T15 and It's Trash. This is in need of dire adjustment. You lose all your currency just trying to sustain mapping.