Defeat an Essence Monster that has at least 1 of the following Essences: Hysteria, Horror, Delirium, Insanity

Players encounter groups of monsters with a rare one in the middle possessed by one or more essences, each granting him a special ability. These monsters are trapped and don't perform any actions until the player clicks a few times on the possessed rare to release the whole group. When the possessed monster is killed the essences will drop as items.

Corrupted Essences

  • Currency: Remnant of Corruption Remnant of Corruption. Essence of Hysteria, Essence of Insanity, Essence of Horror, and Essence of Delirium can only be obtained by corrupting monsters with an Essence of tier 5 (MEDS: Misery, Envy, Dread, Scorn).

Group F includes the corrupted essences, which have no prefix word due to the fact that they exist in a tier unto themselves. These do not appear naturally on monsters trapped within essence crystals, and can only be obtained by corrupting an essence monster with a Remnant of Corruption.

Tier Insanity Horror Delirium Hysteria
8 Insanity Essence Horror Essence Delirium Essence Hysteria Essence

Guide: Corrupt the monster trapped by essence before releasing it.

Use a Remnant of Corruption on an Essence Monolith

Click 3 times to release these frozen monsters and kill them.

Remnant of Corruption

Remnant of Corruption Remnant of Corruption corrupts the Essences trapping a monster, modifying them unpredictably:

  • Mobs are broken free with empowered stats.
  • All contained essences have their tiers increased by 1 (e.g. 'Screaming' upgraded to 'Shrieking'). Note that the base essence type won't change, and this can't occur with "Deafening" essences.
  • Monster may gain one additional essence.
  • Transform essence types to random ones from the next type group. E.g., 'of Fear' transformed to 'of Wrath'.
    • Note that this can also increase the tier of the essence if the original is at a lower tier than the minimum for the next tier.
    • Essence of Hysteria, Insanity, Horror and Delirium can only be obtained by corrupting monsters with an essence of group E.
    • A useful mnemonic for the Group E essences is "Purple MEDS" (Shrieking Essence of Misery, Shrieking Essence of Envy, Shrieking Essence of Dread, Shrieking Essence of Scorn).

With the Crystal Resonance Atlas passive skill allocated, trapped monsters can't break free when they are corrupted. This does not affect the outcome of using the Remnant.

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Kirac League Mods Available During 3.21.0

  • Essence (costs 3 Chaos Orbs): Area contains 3 additional Essences.

Essence Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
4 Essence Chance Normal
  • Your Maps have 5% chance to contain an additional Essence
5 Imprisoned Monster Additional Essence Chance Normal
  • Imprisoned Monsters in your Maps have 5% chance to have an additional Essence
2 Remnant of Corruption Essence Chance Normal
  • Monsters Imprisoned by Essences have a 10% chance to contain a Remnant of Corruption
1 Crystal Resonance Notable
  • Monsters Imprisoned by a Shrieking Essence in your Maps will be Duplicated when released
  • Corrupting Imprisoned Monsters in your Maps cannot release them

Essence Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
1 Crystal Lattice Notable
  • Imprisoned Monsters in your Maps have 15% chance to have 3 additional Essences

Essence Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
1 Amplified Energies Notable
  • Essences found in your Maps are a tier higher

Essence Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
4 Essence Rare Chance Normal
  • Imprisoned Monsters in your Maps have 25% chance to drop an additional Rare Item with an Essence Modifier
1 Prolific Essence Notable
  • Your Maps contain an additional Essence

Sextant mods

Item Level Mod Weight
Awakened Sextant 1 Monsters Imprisoned by Essences have a 50% chance to contain a Remnant of Corruption
Areas contain an additional Essence
3 uses remaining
map extra content weighting [1]		 unique_map 0
no_monster_packs 0
default 500
Elevated Sextant 1 Monsters Imprisoned by Essences have a 50% chance to contain a Remnant of Corruption
Areas contain 2 additional Essences
15 uses remaining
map extra content weighting [1]		 unique_map 0
no_monster_packs 0
default 500

Essential Essences(4)

Complete each of the following Essence encounters.

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