Just play for a time and get items from ground. You do not really need good items until you reach yellow maps (tier 6+).
1 div isn't much. Use it to get your starting gear. For RF either use Pohx's PoB or his RF wiki. You could craft starting stuff in the budget of that 1 div, but it's probably around 5 or so realistically. The RF Wiki crafting section has advice on what each gear piece should have on it and a FAQ section that tells you which pieces to get first. You can check out the website Craft of Exile and try to practice making them before you attempt it in game. The Consuming Dark with good rolls is a nice and cheap weapon to use until you get your end scepter. Immortal Flesh on belt can stay there for the whole game, 6L Brass Dome chest is also decent until (and if) you want to craft an armor. For the shield slot you can also grab Rise of the Phoenix, Saffels frame, Ahn's Hertiage or Dawnbreaker.
That "setup" is going to lead you nowhere. You get a shit ton of t15-t16 maps from normal runs, you won't be short on them ever. Plus there's favored map slots as well where you can put your favorite one for more drops. You need actual content in your maps to farm. Figure out what you like the best (or find profitable), and spec into that. And no, you're not going to get a profit from selling maps in bulk if that's what you're aiming for, especially since you even have no voidstones that tier up the maps and the favored slots locked.
He is playing on Ruthless, I am pretty sure mapping is also screwed up and maps drop rarely. And he is not going to be selling anything on Ruthless.
The first time through? For what purpose? It's a meme gamemode far removed from the actual game, what kind of support or advice would they expect. The complaints about "but the game didn't show me how or where to do this!" don't apply at all in this context. And mapping is just fine, I'm getting a ton of maps every run on the actual league, more than I could or should possibly ever play.
You are mapping on Ruthless?
Why the fuck would anyone?
Yeah I don't like Syndicate myself and never go for it, the only cool thing about that mechanic is the items unveiling, you want to bring as many veiled items to Jun as you can because the stuff you pick gets unlocked as a crafting option which is super useful.
But how much currency is dropping? It is normal in non-ruthless to turn all maps into rare with Alch orbs and even reroll them if mods you got are especially nasty for your build (my jugg cannot run physical reflect or no life/mana regen maps).
The way to do it is to ignore the enemies and rush the boss at the end. At least on standard, maybe on ruthless the dps check is just too high.
In normal the cart automatically goes down to level 68 or something as you level up, but I think they removed it in ruthless. So you just have to map the cart down manually. Probably not worth it.
Every node requires sulphite, the amount scales upwards the deeper you go.
