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 blue on the Atlas. To acquire multiple Shaper's Orbs of tier 8-10, the maps not only need to be Elder-influenced, but occupied by an Elder Guardian or the Elder himself.

Memory Fragment		Found in map tier	Shaper's Orb	Notes
I	1	6	Tier 1
II	2	7	Tier 2
III	3	8	Tier 3
IV	4	9	Tier 4
V	5	10	Tier 5
VI	6	11	Tier 6
VII	7	12	Tier 7
VIII	8	13	Tier 8, #1
IX	9	13+	Tier 8, #2	Occupied by Elder Guardian or the Elder 1st additional Orb
X	10	14	Tier 9, #1
XI	11	14+	Tier 9, #2	Occupied by Elder Guardian or the Elder 2nd additional Orb, potentially downgraded*
XII	12	14+	Tier 9, #3	Occupied by the Elder 4th additional Orb, potentially downgraded*
XIII	13	15	Tier 10, #1
XIV	14	15	Tier 10, #2	Occupied by Elder Guardian or the Elder 3rd additional Orb, potentially downgraded*
XV	15	15	Tier 10, #3	Occupied by the Elder 5th additional Orb, potentially downgraded*

*The five additional Shaper's Orbs (from fragments IX, XI, XIV, XII and XV) are found in sequence, granting Orbs #2 and then Orbs #3. Completing a different encounter (such as "Elder on a T15 map) downgrades the dropped memory fragment to the next one missing in the sequence.

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.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.1.0	Acquisition mechanic reworked. Orbs are now acquired by turning in memory fragments.
2.4.0	Introduced to the game.