Guide:Map Cheat Sheet

This is a guide on the subject of Map Cheat Sheet.

Last updated on December 11, 2024‎.

This guide is meant to give a general layout/type of each map along with notable mob types or encounters.

Abyss

• Cave map type
• Medium-width corridors that go in random directions
• Spiders spawn from the sides of the map randomly

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Augury

• Indoor temple map with a locked inner sanctum
• Must pull 3 levers to open the middle of the map to fight rare mobs
• The 3 levers are in the middle of each side that you did not spawn on
• You cannot cancel pulling the levers - make sure you kill all mobs around them first

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Backwash

• Forest map type
• Islands connected with bridges
• Lots of tree obstacles
• Boss is Yaota, the Loathsome

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Bloodwood

• Forest map type
• Fairly linear
• Long winding corridor
• Can easily miss rares if you don't check all sides as you go down the corridor

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Blooming Field

• Forest map type
• Big square
• Lots of roots and trees obstructing movement

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Burial Bog

• Swamp map type
• Long winding map with large obstacles along the way
• Similar to Strand in PoE 1

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Crypt

• Mausoleum map type
• Long narrow corridors
• Boss is the first floor sanctum boss from PoE 1

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Decay

• Swamp map type
• Circular map with lots of obstacles

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Forge

• Long, straight hallways
• Looks like crucible maps from PoE1
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Fortress

• Circular map with big open areas
• Boss is Pirasha, The Forgotten Prisoner, which is the map version of Balbala, the Traitor, but the arena is a lot larger

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Hidden Grotto

• Cave type map

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Hive

• Desert type map
• Lots of rocks and jagged edges to get caught on or stuck

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Lofty Summit

• Winter type map
• Fairly linear
• Long corridors that are wide and narrow at parts

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Mire

• Swamp map type
• Thin bridges connecting small islands

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Oasis

• Desert map type
• Long linear corridor

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Ravine

• Castle map type
• Long linear map with little to no obstacles

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Sandspit

• Beach map type
• Long linear map just like strand in PoE 1

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Savannah

• Desert map type
• Open layout with long brick walls throughout
• Boss is the desert boss from act 2

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Seepage

• Indoor temple map with long corridors

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Slick

• Castle type map
• Long, wide corridors
• Is generally linear but has large tangents

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Spider Woods

• Forest type map
• Linear-ish, but mostly wide open space

Steaming Springs

• Beach map type
• Open layout in a square with lots of obstacles
• Boss is Manassa, The Serpent Queen

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Steppe

• Forest/plain map type
• Open layout in a square

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Sulphuric Caverns

• Cave map type
• Linear-ish map but you have to traverse the sides quite a bit
• Boss is the dual boss with the beast and the mage

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Vaal Factory

• Temple map type
• Square map with lots of rooms and doors
• Can have little spiders in the ground that trigger when you walk over them and home in on you and explode
• Boss is always top/left

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Vaal Foundry

• Layout is similar in every map - head top right
• Boss is the same as the molten vault (lava boss)

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Willow

• Forest type map
• Lots of tree obstacles

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Woodland

• Forest map type
• Circular'ish map with lots of tree obstacles

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