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Maps and the Atlas

How the endgame starts after Act 10, the Map Device, map tiers and how you climb them, the Atlas and how it reveals, Atlas passive points, and the Threads that replaced Scarabs in 3.30.

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Maps and the Atlas

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Maps and the Atlas

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Tier 1 map
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Put a map in the Map Device in your hideout.

A Tier 1 map in the Map Device opening six portals.

Maps are the endgame

After Act 10, the Epilogue sends you to Kirac at Karui Shores. He gives you a Tier 1 map. Put a map in the Map Device and it opens six portals into that map's area.

You can find maps from Act 8, but you can't use them until the Epilogue.

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Maps are the endgame

After Act 10, the Epilogue sends you to Kirac at Karui Shores, who gives you a Tier 1 map. Put a map in the Map Device and it opens six portals into that map's area. You can find maps from Act 8, but you can't use them until the Epilogue.

Map tiers

ColourTiersArea level
White1–568–72
Yellow6–1073–77
Red11–1678–83

Higher maps drop inside maps

Magic and rare monsters can drop a map one tier higher than the one you're in, and the map boss two tiers higher.

The Atlas

The Atlas shows every map and how they join. You start in the centre, and completing a map reveals the maps joined to it, so you spread outward toward higher tiers.

Atlas passives

The Atlas has its own passive tree, rebuilt in 3.30: you start at its centre and work outward. There are 150 points in all: 100 from the bonus objective on each Tier 1 to 16 map, and the rest from unique maps, special maps and endgame bosses.

Threads (new in 3.30)

Threads replaced Scarabs in 3.30. Use them at the Map Device with a map to add their league mechanic to the area: Abyss, Bestiary, Betrayal, Blight, Breach, Expedition, Incursion, Legion, Ritual or Ultimatum. You can use up to eight, and more raises the chance of powerful extra effects.