PoE How to Defeat Stygian Spires 3.24

Abysses are interactable objects in instances which spawns cracks and pits that spawn monsters. Abysses start spawning in acts Act 6 and onwards and in maps. Abysses are marked on the minimap with a green icon .

Stygian Spires in Path of Exile can be a bit tricky to deal with if you want to maximize your rewards. Here's the deal:

Goal: You want to kill the Stygian Spire after it spawns a bunch of monsters from the abyss cracks.

Here's the catch: If you kill the Spire too quickly, it won't spawn all the monsters, reducing your loot and experience gain.

Here's how to tackle a Stygian Spire encounter:

  1. Engage the Spire: Just attack it normally until it starts firing projectiles at the ground.
  2. Watch for the Pits: Those projectiles create chasms in the ground. That's your cue to back off.
  3. Clear the Spawned Monsters: Let the monsters from the cracks emerge and fight them.
  4. Damage Control (Optional): This is where it gets tricky. Ideally, you want to damage the Spire but avoid killing it before it spawns all the monsters. Here are some options:
    • Hold Back on Damage: If your build deals high damage, ease up on attacking the Spire once it starts spawning monsters.
    • Switch Weapons: Consider swapping to a weaker weapon temporarily.
    • Manage Ignite: If your attacks ignite enemies, be careful. An ignite spreading to the Spire can kill it prematurely. Some items like Cold Iron Point or Invictus Solaris can help prevent ignites.

Additional Tips:

  • Some players use Abyss Scarabs to guarantee an Abyss encounter in their maps.
  • Atlas Passive points can also increase the frequency of Abyss encounters.

By being mindful of the Stygian Spire's mechanics, you can ensure you get the most loot and experience from these encounters.

Stygian Spire 3.21 Update

  • Abyssal Depths now always contain a Lich. Because the rate of encountering Abyssal Liches is unchanged, Abyssal Depths are rarer than before.
  • It is now possible for a Stygian Spire to spawn in the place of an Abyssal Trove at the end of an Abyss, which will drop all of the jewels and other items you would normally receive as well as a Stygian Vise.
  • Abyssal Depths can now only appear in level 78 or above areas (previously 70 or above).
  • Abyssal Depths now always spawn at the fourth hole, if they were going to spawn at all, instead of immediately after a single hole.
  • Ulaman, Sovereign of the Well has had their life increased, and can now use their Cleave skill from further away. The speed of the projectiles from their spirit-spending ability has been reduced, though their damage has been increased. They now spawn more geysers, which have had both their damage and duration increased also.
  • Amanamu, Liege of the Lightless’ has had their life increased, and is now more likely to use their Thrust attack, and Mortar Projectiles summoned during the fight now last longer. Amanamu’s channelled projectile attack now deals more damage, though their turn speed when channelling this has been reduced. The health of Stygian Spires and Stygian Hearts spawned in this fight has been increased.
  • Stygian Spires no longer gain a reduced Damage Taken buff upon using their skills. Instead, they now spawn with a reduced Damage Taken buff which tapers off over 5 seconds, and their life has been increased. The thresholds they spawn minions has also been adjusted.
  • The Awakened Depths Atlas Notable Passive no longer causes Abyssal Depths in your Maps to have 100% increased chance to contain a Lich (as that would be silly), and now causes Abysses in your Maps to have 100% increased chance to lead to an Abyssal Depths (previously 50%). This is still a 50% chance in Ruthless.
  • The Lightless Legion Atlas Notable Passive has been renamed to Inspired Darkness. It no longer grants Monster Level, increased number of Magic and Rare Monsters, or increased Pack Size for Abyssal Depths in your Maps. Instead, it now provides “Stygian Spires in your Maps drop Items with +1 to Item Level”.
  • The two small Atlas Passives prior to Inspired Darkness no longer grant “Abyssal Depths in your Maps have 15% increased Pack Size”. Instead, they now provide “Abysses in your Maps that do not lead to an Abyssal Depths have 10% increased chance to lead to a Stygian Spire”.
  • The two small Atlas Passives following Inspired Darkness no longer grant 10% increased Quantity of Items dropped in Abyssal Depths in your Maps. Instead, they now provide “Abysses in your maps have 5% increased chance to lead to an Abyssal Depths” and “Abysses in your Maps that do not lead to an Abyssal Depths have 5% increased chance to lead to a Stygian Spire”.

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Kirac Map Mods

Name Kirac’s league modifiers Cost
Abyss Area contains 2 additional Abysses. 6 Chaos Orbs

List of PoE Abyss Scarabs

Name DescriptionLimit
Abyss Scarab
  • Area contains an additional Abyss
 Limit: 2
Abyss Scarab of Multitudes
  • Abysses in Area spawn 75% increased Monsters
 Limit: 2
Abyss Scarab of Edifice
  • Abysses in Area that do not lead to an Abyssal Depths lead to a Stygian Spire
  • Abysses in Area spawn Hoards as they travel
 Limit: 1
Abyss Scarab of Emptiness
  • Rare Abyss Monsters in Area have a 50% chance to drop an additional Rare item with an Abyssal socket
 Limit: 1

Abyss Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
1 Reactive Swarm Notable
  • Abysses in your Maps spawn 10% increased Monsters for each prior Pit in that Abyss
8 Abyss Chance Normal
  • Your Maps have +8% chance to contain an Abyss

Abyss Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
1 Abyssal Army Notable
  • Abyss Monsters in your Maps grant 50% increased Experience
  • Abysses in your Maps spawn 50% increased Monsters
1 Rare Item Abyssal Socket Chance Normal
  • Abyssal Troves and Stygian Spires in your Maps have 5% chance to drop a Rare Item with an Abyssal Socket
1 Votive Hoard Notable
  • Abyssal Troves and Stygian Spires in your Maps have 20% chance to drop a Rare Item with an Abyssal Socket
1 Abyss Monsters and Experience Normal
  • Abyss Monsters in your Maps grant 10% increased Experience
  • Abysses in your Maps spawn 5% increased Monsters

Abyss Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
1 Underground Kingdom Notable
  • Your Maps have +2% chance to contain an Abyss per 2% increased Pack Size

Abyss Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
2 Abyssal Depths Chance and Stygian Spire Chance Normal
  • Abysses in your Maps have 5% increased chance to lead to an Abyssal Depths
  • Abysses in your Maps that do not lead to an Abyssal Depths have 5% increased chance to lead to a Stygian Spire
2 Stygian Spire Chance Normal
  • Abysses in your Maps that do not lead to an Abyssal Depths have 10% increased chance to lead to a Stygian Spire
1 Inspired Darkness Notable
  • Stygian Spires in your Maps drop Items with +1 to Item Level
2 Abyssal Depths Chance Normal
  • Abysses in your Maps have 10% increased chance to lead to an Abyssal Depths
1 Awakened Depths Notable
  • Abysses in your Maps have 100% increased chance to lead to an Abyssal Depths

Abyss Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
3 Abyssal Jewel Chance Normal
  • Abyssal Troves and Stygian Spires in your Maps have 10% increased chance to contain or drop an Abyss Jewel
1 Corrupted Gaze Notable
  • Abyss Jewels found in Abyssal Troves or dropped by Stygian Spires in your Maps have 20% chance to be Corrupted and have 5 or 6 random Modifiers

Abyss Atlas Passive Tree

Count Name Category Description
1 Ancient Conflict Notable
  • Abyssal Troves and Stygian Spires in your Maps have 3% chance to drop an Abyss Scarab
3 Abyss Monster Count Normal
  • Abysses in your Maps spawn 5% increased Monsters

Stygian Spire Guide

Stygian Spire is one of the Abyss bosses and can drop a Stygian Vise. Players have also reported that the totem can drop a unique Abyss Jewel. It can rarely spawned at the 4th hole of the Abyss.

The totem boss also appears in the Crystal Spire node of the Azurite Mine (Delve), which is spawnable in Abyssal Depths biome. In the Azurite Mine the boss drops Hollow Fossil instead.

Finally, Stygian Spires can spawn as side bosses during the Abyssal Lich boss fight, which does not have specific drop.

Stygian Spire
Location(s) Abyss content in map
Crystal Spire (Azurite Mine)
Resistance(s) Resists elemental damage
Resists chaos damage
Modifier(s) Unwavering

Abilities and modifiers

As the totem main skill is the spawning of abyss which in turn the abyss spawns the monsters, the totem itself does not have default attack. It does have a skill known as AbyssPillarMortar (or similar internal ids), which deals physical damage according to datamine.

Stygian Spire does not have Monster gives 100% increased Experience on death (Hidden), 15000% increased Rarity of Items dropped by this Monster (Hidden) mod which can be found on other map / area boss.

Items found from this monster

Item Drop
Level		 Lvl.
Amanamu’s Gaze N/A 40
Kurgal’s Gaze N/A 40
Stygian Vise 1 1
Tecrod’s Gaze N/A 40
Ulaman’s Gaze N/A 40

Above loot drop table is for the Abyssal Depths version only, not the Delve version.

Abhorrent Abysses(4)

Complete each of the following Abyss encounters.

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