Can someone give me a quick ELI5 post on how to properly utilize Sextants to sustain higher level maps?

I'm having difficulties as a solo player sustaining T14+ maps. I have the basics down to roll maps, but as I haven't played since Perandus League, I don't fully understand proper Sextant usage and Shaper Orb blocking.

Thank you, in advance, serious posts!

Troll posters, you're also wonderful people.

For reference, I'm at 137/159 on my Atlas, with most of the uncompleted maps as Uniques. I'm on the Shaper's Guardians leg of the Zana questline.

This post was edited by MoS. on Jan 14 2019 05:20pm

If you have elder orb use it on a lower level map for easy sustain, use as many sextants as you can on it. Put it on a white map with a lot of other white maps around it for cheap sextants.

For 11-15 level sustain most people use shape or double shape [if its still a thing i havent tried it] methods, same as above except you might need to block off maps using cartographer's seals [https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vendor_recipe_system under "Atlas of worlds utility"] depending on which map you're going to run. Basically need to block off maps of the same level as the one you're going to run and one level above it.

If you want to run any more than one single map over and over, I suggest just leaving your atlas as high as you can get it, selling whatever maps you don't want and keeping the ones you do.

Step 1. Chisel
Step2. Alch
Step 3. Vaal
Step4. Fragments
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Profit

Also look for additional monsters on sextants
Hunted traitors and mysterious barrels are also decent

If you have unidentified maps then using the %30 to unidentified quant sextant is also good

get full party for even MOAR

ye until u run into a mod u cant do

Thays why you stockpile reflect maps until that sextant comes otherwise u just keep the maps u cant do aside entirely rinse Nx repeat

When you corrupt a map that becomes unidentified, it has the same mods.

real men can run any and all mods

let me give you an equally obvious fact

when an unidentified map drops you dont know the mods



sounds like u only play cheese builds