PoE Atlas Memories Item Modifiers

Path of Exile: Lake of Kalandra introduced Atlas Memories as a new core game mechanic. In maps, you’ll very rarely find a Memory item, which represents a set of memories that an NPC has about their past. Each successive map in the sequence gets more difficult and rewarding as the memories intensify.

Atlas Memories

Atlas Memories offer a way to explore endgame content and earn very valuable rewards without having to specialise your Atlas Tree for it.

In high-level maps, you’ll very rarely find a Memory item, which represents a set of memories that Alva, Niko, Einhar or Kirac has. They will provide a sequence of maps for you to explore as you relive the events of their past. These highly challenging and rewarding Memories can either be applied to your Atlas or traded to other players.

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PoE 3.20: Atlas Memories now drop identified.

List of Atlas Memories Modifiers

Challenge: Complete Tier 16 Maps with Atlas Memory Modifiers (0/75).

Name Search Mods Category
Alva's Memory of Cascading Fortunes Search
  • Areas contain additional Strongboxes
  • Strongboxes are found in Sequences
  • Strongboxes in a Sequence open when the previous Strongbox in the Sequence has unlocked
    • (15/30/45/60)% increased Explicit Modifier magnitudes
    • Strongboxes have (4)% chance to be an Operative's Strongbox
    • Strongbox Monsters are Enraged
 Ambush
Alva's Memory of Reverse Incursion Search
  • Areas contain additional Temporal Incursions
  • Temporal Incursion Portals have their direction reversed
    • (15/30/45/60)% increased Explicit Modifier magnitudes
    • Area contains (3/4/5/6) Temporal Incursions
    • Temporal Incursion Portals have their directions reversed
    • Incursion Architects have 50% chance to drop an additional Rare Incursion Item
    • 100% increased Experience gain
    • Incursion Monsters have (100/200/300/400)% More Maximum Life
    • Incursion Monsters deal (10/20/30/40)% more Damage
 Incursion
Einhar's Memory of Crystal Prisons Search
  • Areas contain additional Essences
  • Essences contain Rogue Exiles
    • (15/30/45/60)% increased Explicit Modifier magnitudes
    • Essences imprison a Rogue Exile
    • Essences found are a tier higher
    • Corrupting Imprisoned Monsters cannot release them
    • Monsters Imprisoned by a Shrieking Essence will be Duplicated when released
    • Imprisoned Monsters drop an additional Rare Item with an Essence Modifier
 Essence
Einhar's Memory of the Sacred Grove Search
  • Areas contain The Sacred Grove
  • Crops are larger in size
  • Crops contain higher tier seeds
    • (15/30/45/60)% increased Explicit Modifier magnitudes
    • Harvests in Area contain (4/4/5/5) Crops
    • Crops in Area are larger in size
    • Harvest Seeds in Area are at least tier 2
    • Tier 2 Harvest Seeds in Area have (10/11/12/13)% chance to be upgraded to Tier 3
    • Tier 3 Harvest Seeds in Area have (2/2/3/3)% chance to be upgraded to Tier 4
 Harvest
Kirac's Memory of Survivor's Guilt Search
  • Players in Areas take on the form of Harbingers
  • Items found in Areas are replaced by stacks of Currency Shards
    • (15/30/45/60)% increased Explicit Modifier magnitudes
    • Players in Area take on the form of Harbingers
    • Items found in Area are replaced by stacks of Currency Shards
 Harbinger
Kirac's Memory of Phaaryl Search
  • Areas contain additional Harbinger Portals
  • Harbinger Portals drop additional Currency Shards when destroyed
    • (15/30/45/60)% increased Explicit Modifier magnitudes
    • Area contains (8/10/12/14) Harbinger Portals
    • Harbingers have (25/50/75/100%) increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
 Harbinger
Niko's Memory of Chasms Search
  • Areas contain additional Abysses
  • Abysses have already fully opened
  • Abysses contain monsters from Beyond this realm
    • (15/30/45/60)% increased Explicit Modifier magnitudes
 Abyss
Niko's Memory of Demonic Onslaught Search
  • Areas are Breached
  • Areas contain additional Large Breach Hands
  • Breach Bosses have a chance to drop a Breachstone
    • (15/30/45/60)% increased Explicit Modifier magnitudes
    • Area is Breached
    • Breach Bosses Defeated in Area have (40)% chance to drop a Breachstone
 Breach
Niko's Memory of Grasping Hands Search
  • Areas contain many additional Breaches
  • Breaches open and close faster
    • (15/30/45/60)% increased Explicit Modifier magnitudes
    • Breach Hands are small
    • Breaches open and close (200)% faster
    • Breach Splinters have (1)% chance to drop as Breachstones instead
 Breach
Niko's Memory of Tormented Souls Search
  • Rare and Unique Monsters found in Areas are Possessed and their Minions are Touched
    • (15/30/45/60)% increased Explicit Modifier magnitudes
 Torment

Right-click on this, then left click on a completed Map on your Atlas to apply this Memory.

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Tips

Using this item on a completed Map on the Atlas of Worlds will cause several connected maps to activate a quest chain for the named Master. Speaking to the NPC will provide a dialogue snippet that does not change, as well as an option to open the marked Map. This map can be modified with currency, fossils, and Delirium orbs, and can become corrupted. The map does not use the player's Atlas Passive Skill Tree or Sextants as it is considered opened by an NPC, similar to Kirac Missions. It cannot be modified with fragments. Each successive map opened will have modifiers that increase in difficulty.

The pathing of maps chosen when using a Memory follows the following rules:

  • The number of maps chosen are fixed, dependent on the specific memory type.
  • It will always choose a connected map.
  • It will attempt to choose a random connected map of a higher tier.
  • If no higher-tier maps are available, it will choose a connected map of a lower tier.
  • Memory paths are not blocked by other memory paths and can overlap.
  • Memory paths can choose maps that have not been completed.

Boss-specific divination cards can drop from any monster in the area inside a memory.

Path of Exile: Atlas Memories Guides

In every expansion leading up to Path of Exile 2’s release, we’ll be improving Path of Exile’s end game with new content to explore and new ways to customize your end game experience. In the Lake of Kalandra expansion, we’re introducing Atlas memories. They aren’t a league feature, they’re part of the core game, affecting Standard and persisting once the Kalandra League has ended.

In maps, you’ll very rarely find a memory item which represents a set of memories that an NPC has about their past. Something special happened to them while exploring maps, and you’re able to experience those events for yourself.

Let’s have a look at a couple of examples. In this Atlas memory, Kirac tells you about the time that he stumbled across a staging ground for a Harbinger invasion of Wraeclast. Each successive map you play in the sequence has more and more Harbinger portals and invaders that you must deal with.

Harbinger invasion of Wraeclast

This is a memory of Niko’s, where he entered a sequence of maps that were entirely consumed by permanent breaches like a Breachlord’s domain. He survived to talk about it, but will you?

This is a memory of Niko's

Right click a memory and apply it to a completed map on your atlas. It’ll mark out a series of adjacent maps that the Atlas memory will span.

Path of Exile: Atlas Memories Guides

When you next talk to the relevant NPC in your hideout, they’ll tell you about their recollections and will allow you to start exploring the memory.

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Each map in the sequence is provided for free by the NPC and you’ll be able to roll it like usual before running it. Because these maps are memories of the NPC, they’re not affected by your atlas tree. However, the content is generally as difficult and rewarding as a fully specialized Atlas tree would cause it to be.

Each successive map in the sequence gets harder and more rewarding as the memories intensify. While memories are tradeable, they’re also very rare and valuable, so you’ll probably want to complete them yourself if you can.

For players who love lore, Atlas memories help expand on the backstory of key NPCs. For players wanting to try out different league mechanics at quite high levels of juice that they haven’t specialized their atlas for, memories let them do this without a bunch of respeccing. And for everyone else, Atlas memories are a great way to earn some valuable items. If you’re strong enough to complete them.

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