Which maps are best for Kingsmarch runners?

Has anyone tested or researched this? T16, 8-mod T16, or influenced maps? Is there any difference in loot at all, aside from the fact that influenced maps can drop fragments for invitations?

I'm surprised a streamer didn't make a video titled "EZ CASH FROM MAPPERS IN KEEPERS LEAGUE 5,000 FREE MIRRORS." This league you just throw in white elder maps because they're so cheap. Why elder? Elder fragments never lose value because of Watcher's Eyes whereas Sirus and Shaper fragments drop to basically 0. Nobody likes running Maven rotations of elders because of waiting for elder animation as well which pumps the price on the fragments.

Normally if you throw in your garbage maps you're starting from like negative 3 chaos due to the gold cost. Mappers are still profitable doing this but honestly you can ignore them entirely and not feel bad (unlike crop shipping!) With white elder maps you're starting from positive 3-5 chaos depending on the market. You run them white because you need 100% progress to get an elder fragment out and more mods makes the odds go down.

Sometimes T17s have been so cheap and uber fragments so expensive that putting T17s in has been worth it. This wasn't the case earlier this league when I looked even when some maps were sub 20c. I think the time you could do this profitably was when T16.5s always rolled with good mods so the meta was only to farm T16.5s. Shaper and elderslayer maps are probably pretty good early league when the maps have dropped in price but the fragments haven't dropped as much.

Anyhow I hope they remove the "dark pattern" daily grind of feeding mappers/crop shipping by nerfing them until they're really bad. Even though I have no use for the currency it feels bad not to engage with the content. Streamers have been petitioning GGG for this all league so I think they'll do it. All it would take is removing mirror shards from crop shipments, lowering divine drops from low investment ships, and drastically reducing the frequency of certain rewards from mappers (Valdo box, harvest juice, boss fragments especially.)

The elder fragment strat is definitely steady profit, but personally I would rather target jackpots.

With all t5 farmers, T16 8-mods are still about as juiced as you want your maps to be. T17s and high deli % T16s are generally too difficult for the mappers and either kills them or just results in a low percentage of completion.

T16 alch n go is the most common way to run mappers.

T16 8-mods are stictly better in terms of total loot, but obviously have a higher input cost and/or require you to specifically farm them.

Last league I self-farmed 8-mods for them, but this league being poverty league, i've been selling my 8-mods and feeding them alch'd T16.


Both are effective. I at just under 100 sets of 12 this league and they have spit out an apothecary. Last league I put in over 500 sets, and got 2 hinekoras locks.

2 guild members have pulled mirrors this league on alch'd t16s.

As far as differences in map types.

Guardian maps and T17's can spit out fragments if completed 100%
Originator maps do not seem to spit out memory influenced gear (small sample size)
Delirious maps return deli loot