Shaper's Orb

Shaper's Orbs are non-tradable consumable items that can be used to upgrade the tier of a map in the Atlas of Worlds. This causes future drops of that map to have a "Shaped" prefix and the upgraded tier level. Atlas progress and map shaping is tracked separately for each league, and shared between all characters in that league.

Obtaining

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 purple on the Atlas. To acquire multiple Shaper's Orbs of tier 8-10, the map must be red tier and occupied by an Elder Guardian or the Elder himself.

Memory Fragment	Found in map tier	Shaper's Orb	Notes
1 (I)	6
2 (II)	7
3 (III)	8
4 (IV)	9
5 (V)	10
6 (VI)	11	Tier 6Shaper's OrbUpgrades a Tier (1-10) map on the Atlas by five tiersRight click this item then left click on a map on the Atlas to upgrade it by five tiers.
7 (VII)	12	Tier 7Shaper's OrbUpgrades a Tier (1-10) map on the Atlas by five tiersRight click this item then left click on a map on the Atlas to upgrade it by five tiers.
8 (VIII)	13
9 (IX)	14	Tier 9, #1Shaper's OrbUpgrades a Tier (1-10) map on the Atlas by five tiersRight click this item then left click on a map on the Atlas to upgrade it by five tiers.
10 (X)	15
11 (XI)	red	Tier 8, #2Shaper's OrbUpgrades a Tier (1-10) map on the Atlas by five tiersRight click this item then left click on a map on the Atlas to upgrade it by five tiers.	Occupied by an Elder Guardian. Map opened/owned by you.
12 (XII)	red	Tier 9, #2Shaper's OrbUpgrades a Tier (1-10) map on the Atlas by five tiersRight click this item then left click on a map on the Atlas to upgrade it by five tiers.	Occupied by an Elder Guardian. Map opened/owned by you.
13 (XIII)	red		Occupied by an Elder Guardian. Map opened/owned by you.
14 (XIV)	red	Tier 9, #3Shaper's OrbUpgrades a Tier (1-10) map on the Atlas by five tiersRight click this item then left click on a map on the Atlas to upgrade it by five tiers.	Occupied by an Elder Guardian. Map opened/owned by you.
15 (XV)	red	Tier 10, #3Shaper's OrbUpgrades a Tier (1-10) map on the Atlas by five tiersRight click this item then left click on a map on the Atlas to upgrade it by five tiers.	Occupied by the Elder. Map opened/owned by you.

The more common memory fragment is always given first, e.g. completing a T13 map with an Elder Guardian before completing a T13 Elder-influenced map will drop fragment 8 (VIII) instead of the Guardian specific fragment.

Spending

Shaper's Orbs are used to upgrade lower tier maps whose layout or bosses a player may find accessible but whose drops and experience gains wouldn't otherwise be attractive. A Shaper's Orb grants +5 to the tier of those maps, i.e. increases the difficulty. Subsequently that increases the experience gained from slain monsters and item level of their drops. Note that Shaper's Orbs don't add Increased Item Rarity or Increased Item Quantity to that map. Unique maps can't be shaped.

Shaping a map can be undone using an Unshaping OrbUnshaping OrbStack Size: 10Downgrades a map on the AtlasRight click this item then left click a shaped map on the atlas to downgrade it. You can then earn the Shaper's Orb again to reshape another map afterwards. which is obtained by vendoring 20 Cartographer's ChiselsCartographer's ChiselStack Size: 20Improves the quality of a mapRight click this item then left click a map to apply it. Has greater effect on lower-rarity maps. The maximum quality is 20%. and 5 Orbs of RegretOrb of RegretStack Size: 40Grants a passive skill refund pointRight click on this item to use it.. Once unshaped, players can talk to Zana to re-obtain the Shaper's Orb.

See also

• Elder's OrbElder's OrbUpgrades any map on the Atlas to Tier 16Right click this item then left click on a map on the Atlas to upgrade it to tier 16.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.3.0	Shaper memory fragments XI through to XV no longer require you to defeat the Elder or its guardians in specific map tiers. Instead, defeating each guardian and the elder within ANY red-tier map will get you one of these fragments. You can no longer get Shaper memory fragments XI through to XV from a map if you are not the map's owner.
3.1.0	Acquisition mechanic reworked. Orbs are now acquired by turning in memory fragments.
2.4.0	Introduced to the game.