The patch notes can be located on POE Currency  website; Grinding Gear Games simply didn't push on the notes to Steam. When you get into yellowish maps (tier 6 and above), you will eventually strike the Elder. After this, both Elder and Shaper influence will appear on the maps, along with both will begin fighting for control of the Atlas. If you clear a Shaper controlled map that is next to one controlled by the Elder, the Elder's influence will take it over.

After enough maps are controlled by the Elder, he and his guardians will show up on the Atlas.

While this happens, the maps get a visual overhaul, and you are able to fight the four Elder Guardians, in addition to the Elder himself, when you run them. There are three different difficulty tiers of Elders: yellow, white, and red, exactly like the maps. I've been grinding the Atlas because the newest expansion was published, and I have just confronted the white and yellow Elders so far--it turned out to be a serious challenge, so I'm anticipating the reddish Elder to become unbelievably hard.

Was creating a Path of Exile: Fall of Oriath items guide for a buddy of mine new to the game, and I figured I'd talk about the mapping section that I wrote for her using each of the new players.Every map that you complete adds a 1 percent chance to dropped maps to update once to a higher grade. So essentially this means if you complete 100 maps, then you gain 100% guaranteed opportunity to upgrade each map you find, 1 tier. Will probably become a grade 12. The overcap rolls over and starts if you have over 100% likelihood. Having 120 Atlas completion means a 100% chance to upgrade a tier 11 into a tier 12, and then a 20 percent chance to upgrade that grade 12 once more to some tier 13. This is a way to progress and maintain your map pool. POE Currency Buy from https://www.mmoexp.com/Path-of-exile/Poe-currency.html can help you get cheap price and enjoy the game.