Start of Endgame without tablets?

Hey guys,

I made it to the endgame yesterday. I received 3 tablets there—Standard, Abyss, and Temple. But that was pretty much it, since then, nothing has dropped—absolutely nothing. Is this really intended for the start? Did everyone actually have to go through this? You get the feeling you're just wasting your time, since you can't buff the map.

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Yes tablets drop are very bad. I done so many abyss maps with exiles ans I also have the point where exiles can drop tablets. Not one abyss tablet has dropped from monsters or exiles.
Also I have another talent that says 50% chance to spread overgrown abyss to nearby map. Well after 30 or something maps done with 0 spreads it's def not 50% chance.

You get tablets from the quest lines. I believe they are guranteed. You also get maps of the quest line's type near those locations. So you could e.g. do breach without needing breach tablets.
So yes, there is a short time (lets say 5-10 maps) that might be without tablets if those don't drop, however afterwards I always had tablets.
I get significantly more tablets than I use, however I also only use 1 per map, so if someone uses 3 per map and doesn't have the atlas tree specced yet, I could imagine them running out of tablets.

Second day, droprate is 0.
Did some questlines, there are no free tablets, sure you can play some parts like breach, abyss etc. But I am not able to juice the maps with more than one mechanics. That seems not right and intended. So it is the fact, that this is boring and I´ll surely quit this season, because I am wasting my time. If this is going on.

I just started my atlas (sorry I'm slow - I have a job, and a wife, and a house, and lots of other stuff to do besides play PoE2) and my main complaint is that I have to path quite far to get to all these event "hubs" or whatever you want to call them and nothing along the path gives any atlas points or whatever cause it's not in a fortress.

My main complaint for the old atlas is a lot of times it felt it was wroth just running a white T1 map and rush the boss when you were trying to path somewhere. Still feels like this now.