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 can acquire Shaper's Orbs by completing bonus objectives on specific maps spread around the Atlas. Their tier is equal to the tier of the map they dropped from minus 5, up to tier 10 orbs from tier 15 maps. Unique maps do not follow this rule, and award a specific tier orb specific to that map.

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.
Shift click to unstack. 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%.
Shift click to unstack. and 5 Orbs of RegretOrb of RegretStack Size: 40Grants a passive skill refund pointRight click on this item to use it.
Shift click to unstack.. Once unshaped, players must redo the bonus objective previously completely on their Atlas in order to re-obtain the Shaper's Orb.

List of Shaper's Orbs

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List of Shaper's Orbs

Commonly shaped maps

You should apply shaped orbs to maps you enjoy running, and would like to see again as you move up in map tiers. Most people like maps that are high in mob density, have linear layouts, and easy to kill or multiple bosses. That being said, here is a list of maps people commonly shape because they have one or more of the above qualities.

Tier 1	Arcade	Jungle Valley
Tier 2	Beach	Oasis
Tier 3	Arid Lake
Tier 4	Acid Lakes	Phantasmagoria
Tier 5	Mesa	Dunes
Tier 6	Strand	Spider Forest
Tier 7	Ashen Woods	Castle Ruins
Tier 8	Atoll	Shore	Cemetary
Tier 9	Coves	Promenade	Reef
Tier 10	Courtyard	Underground River	Colonnade

Version history

Version	Changes
2.4.0	Introduced to the game.