PoE Endgame Changes 3.28

The 3.28 Mirage update introduces some of the most significant overhauls to the Path of Exile endgame in years, focusing on a major Atlas redesign, the removal of tedious "busywork" mechanics, and new ways to "juice" maps.

Endgame Changes 3.28

• Extensive changes have been made to the Atlas and how you engage with Maps, without interfering with the beloved core experience. Some of the more frustrating aspects have also been streamlined or removed.
• Map items are no longer associated with a specific Map Area. As an example, instead of having a Tier 10 Mesa Map, you will now find a Tier 10 Map. To open a Mesa Map, you now locate and select Mesa on your Atlas, put in your Map item, and activate the Map Device.
• That Mesa Map may drop a Tier 11 Map. You can then place this into your Map Device, which defaults to the last Map run, and either run Mesa again or choose a new Map Area to use it on.
• The structure of the Atlas has also changed, you now begin your exploration at the centre of the Atlas, with each corner housing one of four Voidstone slots.
• All content accessed using the Map Device is now physically present on the Atlas, allowing you to see everything available in the Endgame as you reveal the fog of war.
• All Unique Maps are now present on the Atlas, including some old favourites that are appearing for the first time.
• You now gain 1 Atlas Skill Point per Unique Map completed on your Atlas, up to a maximum of 10. There are around 20 Unique Maps available, so you only need to complete the half you want (not looking at you, Hall of Grandmasters).
• The remaining Atlas Skill Points have been moved to other places, and you can now get more total Atlas Skill Points than before.
• Eagon now has a new goal and is determined to stop Zana traversing the threads that weave the Atlas together and severing them. He has made use of a new mysterious discovery, Arcane Astrolabes, but by using them to trace her movement they cause dangerous side effects.
• Using an Astrolabe on a Map on the Atlas manifests a Shaped Region in that quadrant of the Atlas, affecting many of the Maps within it. There are many types of Astrolabes, and they apply different types of Shaped Regions.
• Completing the content added by the Astrolabe will remove the Shaped Region's influence from that Map. Upon doing so, every other Map remaining in the Shaped Region will gain an additional modifier.
• Once you have successfully rid the Atlas of the Shaped Region, Eagon will take you to one of the four Memory Vaults, where there are powerful rewards to be had.
• Each Vault is associated with a specific quadrant on the Atlas, so you're able to target a certain vault if you're wanting to try to get a specific type of reward.
• Interacting with the Map Device now opens the Atlas screen. Clicking locations on the Atlas will allow you to use a Map (and any fragments) to open portals to that specific location.
• Certain locations will require special map items to access, such as Unique Maps, Shaper Guardian Maps, Nightmare Maps, Vaal Temple and locations requiring Map Fragments rather than Map Items.
• As you can now run any Map with a Map Item, the Favoured Map system has been removed.
• Memory Skills have been removed from Originator Influenced areas. You can still collect Petals in these areas, which now instead grant a higher chance to find items with Memory Strands.
• Several of the effects from the removed Memory Skills have been moved to new bonus modifiers on Altars at the end of Maps within Memory Threads. For example, Killing a Rare Monster consumes 30 Petals if possible to revive the Monster once.
• The Decayed Voidstone is now obtained from killing both the Shaper and the Elder. It can also still be obtained from defeating Uber Elder.
• You now receive a Voidstone from killing both the Searing Exarch and the Eater of Worlds (instead of one from each).
• The extra Voidstone that this leaves is now obtained from killing the Incarnation of Dread.
• Introduced the Memory of Loneliness, which adds a Memory Thread to a quadrant of the Atlas leading to the Incarnation of Neglect.
• Introduced the Memory of Trauma, which adds a Memory Thread to a quadrant of the Atlas leading to the Incarnation of Fear.
• Introduced the Memory of Reverence, which adds a Memory Thread to a quadrant of the Atlas leading to the Incarnation of Dread.
• The Threads of the Originator Quest line now awards a skill book granting 2 Atlas Passive Skill Points and 2 Atlas Passive Respec Points for defeating each Incarnation boss.
• Tier 17 Maps have undergone significant changes, and are now Nightmare Maps.
• Completing each Nightmare Map now awards 1 Atlas Skill Points (5 total).
• Slightly increased the reward values of Originator-influenced and Nightmare Map modifiers that granted Increased Pack Size or Item Rarity.
• Slightly reduced the reward values of Originator-influenced and Nightmare Map modifiers that granted More Currency, Maps or Scarabs.
• After obtaining the Voidstone from killing the Incarnation of Dread, items with Memory Strands will now be able to drop from all maps ran on the atlas. More Memory Strand affected items will still come from Originator maps, to retain them being the best source.
• Items that drop with Memory Strands will now more often be higher tier bases.
• Items that drop with Memory Strands will have more Memory Strands on average.
• Memory Strands will have a larger influence on the tier of Modifiers present on the item than previously.
• Atlas Bonus Objectives now additionally grant +1% to Map Item Quantity for every 4 Bonus Objectives completed.
• Uber Bosses now only require 4 Fragments to access (previously 5).
• All Maven Invitations are now accessed through Kirac, rather than some of them being quest items you place into your Map Device.
• Sacrifice and Mortal Fragments can no longer be used in a Map Device to open a random Vaal Side Area directly. Instead, they can be used alongside Maps to add a Vaal Side Area to the opened Map, while still applying their current Map Item Quantity bonus.
• Sacrifice and Mortal Fragments now explicitly state the Map Item Quantity bonus they apply to areas.
• Elder Guardian, Shaper Guardian and Conqueror Maps always generate on Tier 16 Maps. As a result, Divination Cards for these items no longer explicitly state the Map Tier.
• Blessed Orbs are now able to reroll the specific Conqueror inhabiting Conqueror Maps, or the specific Elder Guardian inhabiting Elder Guardian Maps. This change does not affect pre-existing Conqueror Maps or Elder Guardian Maps.
• Kirac no longer offers Atlas Missions, and defeating Map Bossess no longer has a chance to grant Kirac Missions. As a result, the Planar Tactician, Solidarity, Expert Reconnaissance, Commissioned Officer and Expect the Unexpected Notable Atlas Passives and associated small Passives have been removed.
• Scouting Reports can no longer be obtained, and existing items no longer function.
• The Side Quest Divination Card has been temporarily disabled, and existing copies of this card cannot be traded in.
• Kirac's Shop now sells a wider variety of Map related items, and his shop can be rerolled with Gold. Maps within Kirac's Shop generally sell for Gold, although some special items may still sell for Chaos Orbs or Orbs of Chance.
• Cartographer's Chisels can no longer be obtained, though existing items will still function, and Map Device crafting options have been removed. The loss of content and loot here has been compensated in other areas.
• The Cartographer Divination Card has been temporarily disabled, and existing copies of this card cannot be traded in.
• Temple Architects now drop additional Scarabs instead of additional Map Currency while you have an Atlas of Worlds room in the Temple.
• Reduced the chances for Quality Currency to drop from Synthesised Monsters in Synthesised Maps.
• Removed all Vendor Recipes that could grant Cartographer's Chisels.
• The effect of 20% Quality on Maps has been reduced. Cartographer's Chisels in Standard Leagues now provide +10% Item Quantity at 20% Quality (previously +20%).
• Maven's Chisel of Procurement now provides +40% Item Rarity at 20% Quality (previously +60%).
• Maven's Chisel of Proliferation now provides +10% Monster Pack Size at 20% Quality (previously +20%).
• Maven's Chisel of Divination now provide +50% more Divination Cards at 20% Quality (previously +100%).
• Maven's Chisel of Scarabs now provides +50% more Scarabs at 20% Quality (previously +100%).
• Maven's Chisel of Avarice now provides +50% more Currency at 20% Quality (previously +100%).
• Quality applies to Pack Size instead of Item Quantity can no longer appear as a Corruption Implicit Modifier on Maps
• Chisels now always apply +20% Quality to Maps.
• Cartographer Strongboxes can no longer roll the modifier granting Contained Items additional Quality.
• The Empyrean Apparatus Unique Strongbox no longer has a modifier granting Contained Items additional Quality.
• Eldritch Altars Influenced by the Searing Exarch can now grant Orbs of Scouring, and Eldritch Altars Influenced by the Eater of Worlds can no longer grant Orbs of Scouring.
• Greatly reduced the amount of items dropped from explosive barrels in the Fortress Map. These barrels will now drop a comparable number of items to barrels in other maps.
• Resonating Shrine no longer grants a bonus per power, frenzy and endurance charge, instead now granting an additional maximum power, frenzy and endurance charge. This shrine still grants random charge generation on hit and on kill.
• The efficacy of the Ambush Scarab of Discernment has been reduced.
• Lowered the bonus Reward granted by the Blight Scarab of Invigoration by 20%.
• Blight Scarab of Blooming no longer adds additional non-Boss waves of monsters to each Blight Portal.
• Blight Scarab of the Blightheart no longer doubles the number of waves spawned in Blight encounters. It now guarantees each portal has 2 additional waves, with chances for a 3rd and 4th wave to occur.
• The Horned Scarab of Awakening now grants Tier 16+ Areas contain the Bosses from a random Maven Invitation.
• Introduced the Abyss Scarab of Descending, which Guarantees an Abyssal Depths in an area.
• Introduced the Anarchy Scarab of the Exceptional, which adds an additional Exceptional Rogue Exile to the area.
• Introduced the Betrayal Scarab of Unbreaking, which gives a chance for Syndicate Members to not lose Ranks when they are Interrogated.
• Introduced the Expedition Scarab of Infusion, which makes Logbooks dropped in areas always drop with 4 implicit modifiers, and causes Expedition monsters to gain increased difficulty and reward for each Remnant detonated.
• Introduced the Kalguuran Scarab of Enriching, which increases the amount of Ore gained from Ore Deposits and the Difficulty and Reward of monsters guarding Ore Deposits for every completed Ore Deposit in the area.
• Introduced The Ritual Scarab of Corpses, which causes Rituals in the area to contain an additional Rare Itemised Corpse monster that will appear in the Favour window after being defeated.
• The Beyond Scarab of Resurgence no longer enrages Beyond Bosses on Low Life, and instead summons the Beyond Bosses of other factions when a Beyond Boss is summoned.
• The Delirium Scarab of Neuroses now also grants Delirium Reward Types gain +1 to count on defeating Unique Delirium Bosses.
• The Domination Scarab of Apparitions can now also spawn Pantheon Shrines in addition to Conqueror ones.
• The Influencing Scarab of Conversion has been renamed to the Influencing Scarab of Interference. It no longer grants a chance for maps to drop as Shaper Guardian, Elder Guardian, Conqueror or Unique Synthesised Maps, and now instead spawns a Conqueror, Elder or Shaper Guardian or Synthesis boss to accompany the Map boss. This additional boss is guaranteed to drop a Shaper Guardian, Elder Guardian, Conqueror or Unique Synthesised Map.
• The Legion Scarab of Command has been renamed to the Legion Scarab of Treasures, and now grants chests that are broken out a chance for the chests rewards to be applied to the monsters it breaks out, while also making those monsters more difficult and rewarding
• The Ritual Scarab of Selectiveness now allows for rerolling 2 additional times instead of 1.
• The Torment Scarab now grants a chance for Tormenting Spirits that have Possessed monsters to be released when that monster is killed. The Spirit then immediately dives into the ground, resurfacing with a new rare monster which they again Possess.
• The Scarab of Hunted Traitors can no longer be obtained.
• The Scarab of Bisection has been split into 2 separate Scarabs, The Scarab of the Sinistral, which grants 100% increased effect of Area Prefix Modifiers, and Area Suffix Modifiers have no effect, and the Scarab of the Dextral, which grants 100% increased effect of Area Suffix Modifiers, and Area Prefix Modifiers have no effect.
• The Kalguuran Scarab now grants Area contains 2 additional Ore Deposits (previously 1, Ruthless is unaffected).
• The Torment Scarab now grants Area is haunted by 4 additional Tormented Spirits (previously 3).
• The Essence Scarab now grants Area contains 3 additional Imprisoned Monsters (previously 2, Ruthless is unaffected).
• The Domination Scarab now grants Area contains 3 additional Shrines (previously 2, Ruthless is unaffected).
• The Anarchy Scarab now grants Area contains 5 additional Rogue Exiles (previously 4, Ruthless is unaffected).
• The Ambush Scarab now grants Area contains 4 additional Strongboxes (previously 3, Ruthless is unaffected).
• Added 5 new Map Modifiers that can roll on Originator-influenced and Nightmare Maps.
• The following Maps have been added back to the Atlas: Shrine, Fungal Hollow, Pen, Carcass, Lair, Bog, Terrace, Siege, Dungeon, Relic Chambers, Cold River, Coral Ruins, Wharf, Fields, Plaza, Cage, Spider Lair, Courthouse, Graveyard, Gardens, Haunted Mansion, Reef, Dry Sea, Foundry, Dig.
• The following Maps have been removed from the Atlas: Arachnid Nest, Colosseum, Waste Pool, Thicket, Academy, Infested Valley, Cells, Desert, Bone Crypt, Toxic Sewer, Precinct, Shore, Spider Forest, Estuary, Channel, Bazaar, Glacier, Villa, Ramparts, Museum, Desert Spring, Temple, Underground River, Plateau, Phantasmagoria.
• Drowning Orbs no longer move towards players if there are no other enemies in range of the player.

The following Map Modifiers can no longer roll:

• Players and their Minions deal no Damage for 3 out of every 10 seconds.
• Area contains Petrification Statues.
• Players have reduced Action Speed for each time they've used a Skill Recently.
• Players are Marked for Death after killing a Rare or Unique monster.
• Rare and Unique Monsters remove Life, Mana and Energy Shield from Players or their Minions on Hit.
• When a fifth Impale is inflicted on a Player, Impales are removed to Reflect their Physical Damage multiplied by their remaining Hits to that Player and their Allies within 1.8 metres.
• Area has patches of Awakeners' Desolation.
• Player Skills which Throw Traps throw fewer Traps.
• Players' Minions have less Movement/Attack/Cast Speed.
• Damage Players' Totems take from Hits is taken from their Summoner's Life instead.