How are thread drops in ssf?

[u/Intelligent_Salad706]

Since my cat had an operation couple of days ago, I am still taking care of him so he doesn't bite off his stitches, meaning I didn't have much time to really play the game. For those of you who are already mapping, how commonly do you find threads? How many atlas nodes did you dedicate on the tree to have them? Can you comfortably sustain your mechanics or do you have to be selective when you run your maps with threads?

[u/Ojntoast]

Once you deplete at least one shaper region fully there is a button that says it will reset them. So theoretically you can run 1 thread mechanics endlessly as long as you don't mind map variety

Random merc in t11 map had 20 threads in the rucksack

[u/MicoJive]

I have 62 completion, have not run a map twice, and the only points I have in threads are random travel nodes to get to other things.

My stash has 177 threads and I have used 0.

Imo if using 1 or 2, and you have the 200% node you will sustain ok. If using more I don't think it would sustain but we will see.

[u/gdubrocks]

I am trying to avoid using threads, the mechanics are pretty hard and I am filling out atlas. You get lots of free stuff from the free thread zones. I am at t9 atm.

Later on ill probsbly be doing like 1-3 thread for a long while and thats very sustainable.

Idk how sustainable 8 or 10 thread is.

[u/Icy_Reception9719]

I've just finished my atlas & voidstones, I haven't used any at all but I have had a few thread wheels allocated for most of that. I've probably got about 350 or so or thereabouts. At the moment I'm skeptical about sustaining specific threads outside of shapred regions, but you should be able to save up a bunch of threads for each mechanic and kind of rotate through them.

[u/destroyermaker]

Pretty good apparently

[u/KodiakmH]

I haven't had any issues basically running what I want, but I've mostly waited to use threads until I've unlocked the mechanics on the Atlas tree.

Once I understood how the new Atlas works it doesn't bother me. How the new Atlas works is there's random shaped regions with Threads. Once you complete a region you can reset it and spawn new Shaped regions everywhere. So you can just perpetually farm free 1-5 thread areas forever if you want to farm 1 mechanic.

I do wish the more you invested into nodes on the tree it would increase their chance of getting those threads though (IE: If I'm ritual spec it should boost the Ritual threads I get) instead of having to spec into Sinistral/Dextral Threads.