PoE Thorough Exploration: Final Map Bosses are Empowered by Wildwood Wisps

Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive, Thorough Exploration, which provides “If there are fewer than 50 Monsters remaining in your Maps, Final Map Bosses are Empowered by Affliction Wisps”.

Count Name Category Description
1 Thorough Exploration Keystone
  • If there are fewer than 50 monsters remaining in your Maps, Final Map Bosses
    are Empowered by Wildwood Wisps

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  • A methodical explorer will find many paths
  • that others, in their haste, might miss.

PoE Thorough Exploration: Final Map Bosses are Empowered by Wildwood Wisps

Here's a breakdown of the new Atlas Keystone Passive "Thorough Exploration" in Path of Exile: Necropolis League:

Effect on Final Map Bosses:

  • Conditional Empowerment: This passive triggers a special effect on final map bosses. If there are fewer than 50 monsters remaining in your map when you engage the boss (meaning you've cleared most of the map), the boss becomes "empowered by Affliction Wisps."

Affliction Wisps:

  • Empowering Boost: These Wisps likely grant the final map boss some kind of enhancement. This could be increased damage, attack speed, movement speed, or other buffs that make the encounter more challenging.
  • List of Wildwood Wisps types:
    • Vivid Wisps grant a more item quantity bonus. Empowered monsters take reduced damage and gain increased attack, cast, and movement speed.
    • Wild Wisps grant a more item rarity bonus. Empowered monsters take reduced damage and gain additional projectiles and more area of effect.
    • Primal Wisps cause them to drop additional currency items, including eldritch currency, Voidborn Reliquary Key, and Valdo's Puzzle Box. Empowered monsters take reduced damage and gain more critical strike chance and additional critical strike multiplier.

Strategic Considerations:

  • Faster Clear vs. Challenge: Thorough Exploration encourages a faster map clearing approach to empower the final boss. This can be a way to increase the difficulty and potentially the rewards of the boss encounter.
  • Balancing Risk and Reward: While a stronger boss offers a potentially greater challenge and better rewards, it's important to weigh the risk of failing the encounter if your build isn't suited for a significantly more difficult fight.
  • Alternative Playstyle: This passive caters to players who enjoy a faster pace and a more challenging endgame. If you prefer a more methodical clearing approach, you might choose to avoid this passive.

Overall, Thorough Exploration in Path of Exile: Necropolis League offers a way to spice up boss encounters by empowering them under certain conditions. It rewards players who can clear maps efficiently and provides an option for those who enjoy a more challenging endgame.

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