Which Maps To Shape With Shaper's Orbs In PoE

In Path of Exile, with over 150 maps to choose, there is a lot of ways to approach late game in terms of shaping your atlas. With fairly decent amount of new maps added to the game in 3.2, we decided to take a look at which maps to use Shaper's Orb on.

The Shaper's Orb is a non-tradeable item that is used to upgrade map tier by 5 when used on the map in the Atlas. You get Shaper's Orbs as a reward from Zana after giving her the Memory Fragments that drop in Elder influenced maps with blue circle around them. Tier 6 is the lowest tier you can get fragments from.

Players acquire Shaper's Orbs by collecting Memory Fragments and giving them to Zana. Memory Fragments are found by killing the bosses of Elder-influenced maps circled in blue on the Atlas. To acquire multiple Shaper's Orbs of tier 8-10, the maps not only need to be Elder-influenced, but occupied by an Elder Guardian or the Elder himself.

And now - about the maps. Below you can see a table with 3 map choices for each tier and reason behind map choice.

Linear layout - you do not have to backtrack when clearing the map.

Divination cards - the monsters in map drop valuable Divination card/s.

Good layout - layout is not perfectly linear but it is wide open, so it's good for breaches.

Density - monster density in map is great so there's more stuff to kill.

X Bosses - there are multiple bosses in map so getting double boss on corrupted map could potentially give you some Sacrifice fragments and more items.

Now, if you are new to the game and want to find some good guide, you can follow some build guide from our website.