PoE Essential Essences

Essential Essences(4)

Complete each of the following Essence encounters.

  • Defeat Essence Monsters (0/90). 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.
  • Gain Essences from monsters (0/250). Monsters trapped in essence crystals can occasionally be encountered in most areas starting from Act 1. Activating the center essence crystal three times will break the crystals, freeing the trapped monsters. The essence item can be obtained by killing these monsters, which are also enhanced by special monster modifiers on the essence.
  • Defeat Essence Monsters with at least 6 essences (0/20).
    • Map mods: Area contains 3 additional Essences. Search.
    • Kirac Mods: Area contains 3 additional Essences.
  • Defeat an Essence Monster that has at least 1 of the following Essences: Hysteria, Horror, Delirium, Insanity. 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).

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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

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