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How To Get Waystones To Unlock Higher Tier Maps In Path Of Exile 2?

Mar 17, 2025

In Path of Exile 2 Early Access, you will need Waystones of different Tiers to unlock the maps you need to explore. Higher-tier Waystones unlock the ability to fight enemies in the map at higher levels, and improve the quality of the drops you get in them, ensuring that each run of the map is more profitable.

While Tier 15 Waystones are the highest level of Waystones you can get in POE 2, with the introduction of this guide, you will have the opportunity to get Tier 16, 17, 18 and even 19 Waystones to unlock higher-tier maps and earn more rewards.

How To Get Waystones To Unlock Higher Tier Maps In Path Of Exile 2?

About Tier 16 Waystones

The only way to get Tier 16 Waystones in the current game is to gamble with POE 2 Vaal Orbs on non-corrupted Tier 15 Waystones. You will face four results: upgrade to Tier 16 Waystones, downgrade to Tier 14 Waystone, randomly modify a modifier in Tier 15 Waystone, and nothing happens.

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Although from the test, the probability of upgrading to Tier 16 Waystone is less than 5%, but the possibility of downgrading to Tier 14 Waystone is also very rare, the other two possibilities are more common. So if you have a lot of Vaal Orbs by farming in some low-level maps, this gambling method is also a valid method of producing Tier 16 Waystones in Path of Exile 2, as the risk involved is much smaller.

It is worth reminding you here that you cannot use Reforging Bench to upgrade three Tier 15 Waystones to Tier 16 Waystones. When you place Tier 15 Waystones on Reforging Bench, you will find that you cannot perform subsequent operations, because this method only applies to Tier 1-14 Waystones.

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About Tier 17 & 18 Waystones

It is important to remind you that there are no real Tier 17 and Tier 18 Waystones in POE 2, but you can use the map modifiers in Atlas nodes to achieve the effect of these two high-tier Waystones - modifying the enemy level in the map you explore.

For Tier 17 Waystones, you can use Tier 16 Waystones with the Corrupted or Irradiated Modifier on the map node, so that you will unlock an explorable map with monster level increased, about level 81.

Similarly, using Tier 16 Waystones with Corrupted and Irradiated Modifiers on the map stage will get you a map with a monster level of 82. Note that Corrupted modifiers are pre-generated by Atlas and cannot be affected by themselves, but you can use Irradiated Precursor Tablet in the nearby Tower to add Irradiated modifiers to the specified map node.

In these maps with higher-level monsters, you will have a good chance to get Level 19+ Skill Gems and Level 19+ Spirit Gems (Level 19 drops in maps with Tier 17 Waystones, Level 20 drops in maps with Tier 18 Waystones).

In addition, all Boss Atlas skill points on the very large skill tree in POE 2 will be randomly awarded to you in these high-level maps. On top of that, they contain a lot of higher item level loot with unique modifiers, which you can’t get by rolling.

But it is worth reminding you that the maps unlocked with Tier 17 & 18 Waystones are also very challenging because of Bosses with high level, so buy POE 2 Currency as much as possible before running maps to enhance the defensive capabilities of your build so that you can safely complete the exploration of these maps.

About Tier 19 Waystones

In theory, you can gamble with Tier 17 Waystones to get Tier 19 Waystones and unlock maps with level 83 enemies. All you need to do is use a Tier 16 Waystone with Corrupted and Irradiated Modifier on a map node, then select Corrupted Infusion passive skill in Atlas Tree and activate it.

Since Corrupted Infusion passive skill causes Waystones to be additionally corrupted when used on the map, this will cause the already corrupted Tier 16 Waystone to be corrupted again, allowing you to obtain Tier 17 Waystones.

However, it is worth noting that injecting a Corrupted Infusion node into a Tier 16 Waystone will also have four results: upgrading to Tier 17 Waystones, downgrading to Tier 15 Waystones, Tier 16 Waystone’s own modifiers being randomly rolled, and nothing happens.

This means that if you are lucky, you will get Tier 19 Waystones and the level of monsters in this map will increase by three levels; but if you are unlucky, you can still challenge the level 81 enemies unlocked by Tier 17 Waystones.

The above is the specific method to obtain higher-tier Waystones and unlock higher-level maps in the current Path of Exile 2 Early Access. I hope you can get the best results when gambling with these Waystones, and can run these higher-difficulty maps smoothly to get more loot from them. I wish you a happy game!

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