PoE Essence Corruption

Essence Corruption

Corrupt an Essence monster with a Remnant of Corruption.

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

Essences can be corrupted by using a Remnant of Corruption on a monster trapped by essence before releasing it.

This will result in one of the following outcomes chosen at random:

  • 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, Essence of Insanity, Essence of Horror and Essence of Delirium can only be obtained by corrupting monsters with an essence in 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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