PoE Atlas Passive Tree Guide (3.29): All 138 Points, 4 Voidstones & Progression

The Atlas passive tree is where Path of Exile's endgame actually opens up — it's the system that lets you pick one way to make currency and then bend the whole map pool toward it. This guide covers exactly how the Atlas works in league 3.29 "Curse of the Allflame": how to earn all 138 Atlas passive points, how to unlock the 4 Voidstones that push your maps to Tier 16, how points are actually awarded, and how to spend your first tree without wasting a single node.

TLDR: You can earn a total of 138 Atlas passive points — 100 from map completion bonuses, 10 from unique maps, 5 from Nightmare maps, and 23 from the pinnacle-boss and originator questlines. Along the way you unlock 4 Voidstones, one from each pinnacle-boss milestone; each socketed Voidstone gives your maps a 25% chance to drop one tier higher, so all four means every map is Tier 16. In 3.29 the core Atlas is unchanged — Curse of the Allflame only added nodes for the new Mercenary and Voyages content, like the Contract Killers notable. Spec into a single mechanic, don't spread thin, and use The Wandering Path only if your build is a specialist farmer.

What is the Atlas passive tree in Path of Exile?

The Atlas passive tree is a second, separate skill tree you allocate once you reach maps — it changes what your maps contain rather than how your character fights. As Maxroll puts it: "The Atlas Passive Tree allows Path of Exile players to completely customize their game experience to suit their needs and focus on the content they love!"

Every point you spend on it biases your map drops, monster packs, and league mechanics toward whatever you want to farm — Delirium, Breach, Legion, Essences, or straight currency. It's the single most important decision layer between "I'm mapping" and "I'm making Divines an hour," which is why understanding it early is the biggest efficiency jump a new mapper can make. If you're still finishing the campaign first, our PoE Labyrinth guide covers the other big power layer, your Ascendancy.

How many Atlas passive points can you get in 3.29?

You can earn a total of 138 Atlas passive points. Maxroll lists the exact breakdown:

"You can get a total of 138 points on the Atlas Passive Tree by completing the following content:

- 100 from completing the Atlas of Worlds maps completion bonus.

- 10 from unique map completions.

- 5 from Nightmare map completions.

- 23 from quests for beating pinnacle content and originator content."

A few things worth understanding about that breakdown:

• The 100 map-completion points are the bulk of your tree and come from Bonus Objectives across the whole Atlas, not a flat "one point per map." You'll be picking these up naturally for a long time as you clear more of the map pool.
• The 23 questline points are the ones that require you to actually beat and re-beat the pinnacle bosses — the same fights that hand you your Voidstones. This is where a lot of players stall, and it's the most common reason someone buys a pinnacle-boss carry to skip the wall.
• Nightmare maps are a rare, high-tier map type; the 5 points from them come late, so don't plan your early tree around having them.

You do not need all 138 to have a strong farming setup. Most league-start specialist trees are fully functional at 60–100 points — enough to fully commit to one mechanic and its supporting nodes. The last ~40 points are polish.

How are Atlas points actually awarded?

The core mechanic is the map Bonus Objective. Per Maxroll:

"White Maps require you to clear the Map as Magic, Yellow Maps require a Rare Map, and Red Maps require a Corrupted Rare Map."

PoE Vault describes the payoff in one line: "As you complete more and more Bonus Objectives for maps... you will now gain an Atlas Passive Point." In practice that means for early points you should be running your maps at least Magic-rarity (white maps) or Rare-rarity (yellow maps) — running them unidentified/white when the map is yellow-tier wastes the objective.

The rest come from the endgame questlines. The Maven is central here: you enable The Maven's Beacon on your Map Device and kill map bosses while she "witnesses" them, filling a progression bar that eventually unlocks her fight and her Invitations. Each of the Maven's distinct Invitations grants an Atlas point (and refund points), and the pinnacle bosses each gate a chunk of the 23-point questline bucket.

What are Voidstones and how do you unlock all 4?

Voidstones are the endgame upgrade that raises the tier of every map you drop. There are exactly 4 — named the Decayed, Eldritch, Ceremonial, and Originator Voidstones — and each one is unlocked by defeating a different pinnacle boss:

• Decayed Voidstone — from Uber Elder (unlocked after you've beaten both the Shaper and the Elder).
• Eldritch Voidstone — from the Searing Exarch and the Eater of Worlds (the two Eldritch Horrors gated behind the Eldritch Altars in your maps).
• Ceremonial Voidstone — from The Maven, by completing "The Maven's Game."
• Originator Voidstone — from the Maven's endgame "Formed" boss, the hardest of the four to reach.

Once you have a Voidstone, you socket it into your Map Device. Each one grants:

"Maps dropped in Areas have 25% chance to be 1 Tier higher."

That stacks. With all 4 Voidstones socketed you hit 100% — every map effectively drops at Tier 16, the maximum normal tier, as Maxroll confirms: the Voidstones "increase the Tier of all Maps, up to having every Map at Tier 16 when all 4 Voidstones are socketed." There's also a small chance (0.4% per Voidstone, so up to 1.6% with all four) for a Tier 16 map to convert into a rare Nightmare Map — the source of those 5 bonus Atlas points.

This is the single biggest reason Atlas progression matters: before Voidstones you're fighting the map pool to sustain high tiers; after all four, every map is red-tier automatically and your farming lane runs at full efficiency.

How should you spend your first Atlas passive points?

The one rule that matters: commit to a single mechanic and go deep, don't spread thin. A half-invested Breach wheel plus a half-invested Legion wheel earns less than either one fully allocated. Pick the mechanic you enjoy and that suits your build's clear speed, then take:

• The mechanic's core wheel (the notables that make it spawn more often and drop more).
• The travel and small nodes that connect it — small passives are more valuable than they look.
• A currency-conversion or map-sustain cluster so your farming actually turns into Divine Orbs or trade currency you can sell into the economy.

If a mechanic isn't working, you can refund points with Orbs of Unmaking and re-spec — the Atlas tree is not permanent, so experiment.

Which Atlas keystones matter?

The most strategy-defining keystone is The Wandering Path:

"Disables the effects of all notable skills, but doubles the effect of all small passive skills (including travel nodes)."

That's a specialist choice. Because it turns off every notable, it only wins for builds that clear fast enough to farm broad, low-investment quantity/rarity across the whole tree rather than stacking one deep mechanic. For most players — especially your first character — skip Wandering Path and take normal notables in one mechanic's wheel instead. The other keystones adjust things like extra map bosses and shrine effects; treat them as opt-in tuning once your core lane is built, not as opening picks.

Did Curse of the Allflame (3.29) change the Atlas?

No — 3.29 did not rework the Atlas passive tree, the Voidstones, or map-tier progression. The 138-point total, the four Voidstones, and the Bonus Objective rules are all the same as prior leagues. Curse of the Allflame added Atlas content for its new mechanics rather than changing the core.

The 3.29 patch notes add new Atlas nodes tied to the league's Mercenary and Voyages systems — for example the Contract Killers notable: "Allied Mercenaries in your Maps deal 100% more Damage against Mercenaries and Rogue Exiles." Mercenaries spawn roughly twice as often at Tier 16, and the Charts/Voyages system layers its own quantity/rarity bonuses on top. These are additions to farm the new content — they don't replace anything you learned above.

If you want to understand how your Atlas farming turns into wealth, our guide on the difference between Divine and Exalted Orbs explains what your drops are actually worth this league.

Frequently asked questions

How many Atlas passive points are there in Path of Exile 3.29? There are 138 total: 100 from map completion bonuses, 10 from unique maps, 5 from Nightmare maps, and 23 from the pinnacle-boss and originator questlines. You don't need all of them — 60–100 is enough to fully commit to one farming strategy.

How do you unlock Voidstones in PoE? Each of the 4 Voidstones drops from a different pinnacle boss: the Decayed Voidstone from Uber Elder, the Eldritch Voidstone from the Searing Exarch and Eater of Worlds, the Ceremonial Voidstone from the Maven, and the Originator Voidstone from the Maven's endgame "Formed" boss.

What do Voidstones do? Each Voidstone socketed in your Map Device gives dropped maps a 25% chance to be one tier higher. With all 4, every map drops at Tier 16, and there's a small chance (0.4% per stone) to get a Nightmare Map instead.

Can you reset your Atlas passive tree? Yes. You refund allocated Atlas points with Orbs of Unmaking, so you can freely re-spec between farming strategies as the league goes on.

Should I take The Wandering Path? Only if you're a fast-clearing specialist farming broad quantity — it disables all notables but doubles small passives. For a first character or a single-mechanic build, skip it and allocate notables normally.

Does Curse of the Allflame change the Atlas? No. The core Atlas, Voidstones, and 138-point total are unchanged in 3.29. The league only added new Atlas nodes for its Mercenary and Voyages content, like the Contract Killers notable.

Skip the grind

The Atlas is a long climb — beating all four pinnacle bosses for your Voidstones, filling the Maven questline, and completing enough of the map pool for 138 points takes serious time, especially if the pinnacle fights are a wall for your build.

If you'd rather farm than grind progression, we can handle the heavy lifting:

• PoE Atlas & boss-carry services — Voidstone unlocks, Maven questline, and pinnacle-boss carries so your Atlas is red-tier ready.
• PoE currency — stock up so you can craft and trade the moment your farm is running.
• Buy Divine Orbs — the endgame trade currency your Atlas farm is built to generate.