Need Help With my Elder Ring Setup on Atlas

please take a look and tell me what you think I should do next, I have 29 maps config and I should do 1 more. the maps I would like to run are the juicy T11-T14 ones I have circled in Red Color.
So what would be the best logical 30th map to lock this one with ?

thank you for your advice exiles !

It doesn't really matter - it's not a proper ring, you'll have to keep looking out for Shaper incursions anyway. Just take a map that you like. If you want to minimize the potential for incursions, take the two red maps south of your "farm", and drop Arena.

The problem with your ring is that there are maps which the Shaper can attack without breaking the connection between the Elder and his Guardians. These are maps that the Shaper can take over. If that happens, you'll have to fix it immediately. Otherwise the Elder (who's then at 29 maps) can close the gap at Museum, and then the Shaper can take over any map and break your ring.

I'm not sure what the objective of your ring is, though. The maps that you labeled as "farm", are the ones that you absolutely shouldn't run, given the way you set up your ring. Running these will always incur a risk that the ring breaks. The way you have designed your ring, you can run every other map on the atlas once you've got the Elder to 30 maps, _except_ the ones you labeled as "farm".

what if I connect it with guardians ? Shaper can't come from guardian...

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Rinzlow написал:

what if I connect it with guardians ? Shaper can't come from guardian...

Which maps do you want to connect to which guardian, and why?

Edit: removed incorrect statement

Just as I thought, cus i wanted to farm waterways or some straightline or open maps. BTW I haven't done Uber elder so shaper won't come at me from guardians. The system solved it for me, thanks.

Dunes, Shore are shaped can wrap sextants around them, nice straight open maps.

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Rinzlow написал:

Just as I thought, cus i wanted to farm waterways or some straightline or open maps. BTW I haven't done Uber elder so shaper won't come at me from guardians. The system solved it for me, thanks.

Yes, that works. Good thinking! :)

You can't run Sunken City or Reef in this setup - those maps are not necessary for the Elder's connection to the Guardian at Laboratory, so if you run them, they will lose Elder influence, the Elder will be at 29 maps and could close the gap at Museum, and then your ring would be vulnerable everywhere.

But as long as you stay away from those two maps, your ring will be stable and unbreakable by your own actions.

If Shaper ever gets influence on Lair of the Hydra (I'm not sure about the mechanics for T16 maps), you need to take it away, otherwise he could endanger your ring by attacking Reef or Sunken City. But it seems that you already took that into account.

(Apologies for the incorrect statement I made earlier. I thought there was a connection between Waterways and Plaza, in which case it would have been impossible to include Dark Forest, Malformation, and Torture Chamber in an unbreakble ring. But in fact there is no connection between Waterways and Plaza, and you found a way to include all your intended "farm" maps as required parts of a ring. Grats!)

the best part is I want to run high tier sustainable maps without having to remove many maps from atlas, usually higher tiers will drop due to completion and those maps can go for 12-16c each so I never lose !

This is it, the finshed product, look at all those red maps :D lol.