What am I doing wrong regarding sustain?

I decided to run 20 6 mod lvl 15 tower juiced maps at level 92 even though I felt I couldn’t sustain exalts at lvl 12 corruption atlas (all put into rarity, quantity, explicit modifiers and rares). I have been hunting corruption but I haven’t been able to find more even though I feel like I’m ”rushing” as recommended. 70 hours played. I have around 30 rarity on gear.

Spent 55 exalts and 5 alchs, got 22 exalts and 2 alchs back. None of the rares I found was worth a damn and didn’t sell at 1 exalt.

What am I doing wrong? Am I supposed to be able to sustain 6 mod maps with the above setup?

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znipah123#2845 wrote:

I have around 30 rarity on gear.

That's nothing. I'm shocked you're getting any exalts at all. 130% magic find is (or used to be in 0.1) when you hit heavy diminishing returns. Aim for at least 100%, 120% (not counting atlas, maps or tablets) is a sweet spot unless you plan to stack ridiculous amount of magic find.

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Summoner#7705 wrote:

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znipah123#2845 wrote:

I have around 30 rarity on gear.

That's nothing. I'm shocked you're getting any exalts at all. 130% magic find is (or used to be in 0.1) when you hit heavy diminishing returns. Aim for at least 100%, 120% (not counting atlas, maps or tablets) is a sweet spot unless you plan to stack ridiculous amount of magic find.

I got more drops running 50 rarity than I do running over 200 on gear. I dont think gear rarity even does anything.

Thanks, I will try to get more rarity on gear then. I ran about 60 in and 0.1 and was swimming in exalts and 6 mod maps though so it doesn’t feel very good. Especially when I run crossbow deadeye and need very specific gear with attributes to feel good mapping and keep my gem and equipment levels.

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Summoner#7705 wrote:

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znipah123#2845 wrote:

I have around 30 rarity on gear.

That's nothing. I'm shocked you're getting any exalts at all. 130% magic find is (or used to be in 0.1) when you hit heavy diminishing returns. Aim for at least 100%, 120% (not counting atlas, maps or tablets) is a sweet spot unless you plan to stack ridiculous amount of magic find.

Mark and Jonathan confirmed MF was nerfed in 0.2. There is slightly less per affix and the way it works was changed also.

Dont run 6 mod waystone on every node, thats a waste of exalts. Majority of loot as coming from the prefixes only anyhow.

"Alch and go" or "regal and go" is much cheaper for running the less juiced nodes and omens can help make them more prefix-heavy.

Save 10x affix and 6x prefix corrupt waystones for the better nodes.

Thanks! I will try this when I play next time. It gets mentally exhausting though since no matter what I do in POE 1 (or d4, shame on me) I always make a profit and can sustain without doing maths, regardless of how simple it is. I just want to relax, blast and once in a blue moon get something exciting 😀 But I will keep trying, love the gameplay!

Totally feel that.
I keep having situations where I get a juicy node but don't want to run it because my waystones all suck at that moment, and vice versa.