Waystones, tablets & map mods
Everything about the map item itself: how to read it, how to roll it, and what to slot at the Map Device.
Waystones
One Waystone = one map, tiers 1 to 16. Area level = tier + 64 (T1 = 65, T15 = 79, T16 = 80). The tier sets both monster level and the item level of the loot. Since 0.5 a Waystone must be identified before the Map Device accepts it.
Revives scale with mods. A Waystone with no mods gives 6 revives. Each explicit modifier removes one, down to 0 at 6+ mods. At 0 revives, the first death ends the map. You can leave and re-enter freely without spending a revive.
Each death in a map also costs 10% of your current XP bar (a flat chunk of the bar, not 10% of total XP). No XP loss in the campaign or against a pinnacle boss. Omen of Amelioration cuts the loss by 75%.
| Tier | Lvl | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| T1-T5 | 65-69 | Learn the rhythm. Trans / Aug only. |
| T6-T10 | 70-74 | Alch your maps. Commit to one league mechanic. |
| T11-T15 | 75-79 | Chaos res mandatory. Fortress and citadels open up. |
| T16 | 80 | Vaal-corrupt a T15 (reforging stops at T15). Pinnacle territory. |
Prefixes mostly help you (quantity, rarity, pack size, more Waystones), suffixes mostly hurt you (monster damage, monster res, debuffs) and raise your Waystone drop chance. In 0.5 GGG swapped several mods between prefix and suffix and removed a batch of old ones, so read the affixes, do not rely on memory.
Three Waystones of the same tier reforge into one of the next tier at the Reforging Bench. This works for T1 to T14 only: a T16 comes from corrupting a T15 with a Vaal Orb, not from reforging.
Tablets
Precursor Tablets slot directly at the Map Device, not in towers. The number of slots tracks the Waystone's mod count: 1 slot at 1-2 mods, 2 slots at 3-5, 3 slots at 6+. A plain Waystone with no mods cannot activate tablets, so craft (or at least mod) it first. A 4th slot opens on Citadel maps after the Industrial Improvements Atlas node.
There are 8 standard content tablets, each with 10 uses:
- Breach
- Expedition
- Delirium
- Ritual
- Irradiated
- Overseer
- Abyss
- Temple
Tablets of the same type stack: slotting 2-3 of one mechanic multiplies how much of that content spawns, which is the backbone of single-mechanic farming. Empty slots are not wasted either, each one adds random league content. Towers still exist but mainly reveal regions now; completing your first tower raises the Fortress.
Map mods to skip
Read the mods before entering. These are the “reroll the map” ones for a caster.
- Monsters penetrate X% Elemental Resistances. Effectively un-caps you. Skip on glass-cannon builds.
- Monsters deal extra damage as Chaos. Bypasses most defences. Skip unless you are ES/CI built for it.
- Less Recovery. Cuts life / mana / ES regen and leech together. Burst casters suffer most.
- More Monster Critical Strike chance / multiplier. One unlucky crit chain ends the map.