Reflection of Essence PoE

As you travel throughout Wraeclast, you’ll occasionally discover a Mirrored Tablet. Build up this Tablet by placing reflections of dangerous encounters at specific locations. Be careful though, some of these reflections contain immense challenges.

Once you have assigned a reflection to every empty location on your Tablet, you may open a portal to the Lake of Kalandra, which will manifest your creation for you to experience.

Reflection of Essence

Reflection of Essence is a Reflection. It can be placed into a Mirrored Tablet.

IconNameDescriptionMin Level
LakeTileIconEssences Reflection of Essence Contains 3 additional Essences
(Difficulty scales chance for Imprisoned Monsters to have additional Essences)
Difficulty: map essence monsters have an additional essence 10% chance		 8

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Essence Reflections

  • Difficulty scales chance for Imprisoned Monsters to have additional Essences [+20%]

Each level of Difficulty increases the chance for Essence Monoliths to contain additional Essences.

Tile Icon Tile Name Tile Text Tile Completion Condition
Reflection of Essence
Tier: 1
Min Level: 8
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  • Contains 3 additional Essences
  • Open and defeat the three Essence Monoliths
Reflection of Imprisonment
Tier: 2
Min Level: 46
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  • Contains 3 additional Essences
    Essences are a tier higher
    Imprisoned Monsters have a Remnant of Corruption
  • Open and defeat the three Essence Monoliths
Reflection of Thralldom
Tier: 3
Min Level: 68
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  • Contains 3 additional Essences
    Essences are a tier higher
    Imprisoned Monsters have 3 additional Essences
  • Open and defeat the three Essence Monoliths

Essences

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 possesed monster is killed the essences will drop as items.

Zones contained a pack of frozen monsters which held an Essence, where taking it freed the monsters imbued with its power. Essences can be used to modify items with a specified guaranteed affix, some of which are exclusive to Essences. Essences can be traded to vendors for higher tiers and can even be corrupted for a chance to gain an even stronger Essence or destroy it.

Reflection

  • In the Kalandra Challenge league, you will travel to the mirrored lake that granted Kalandra her powers of reflection. Her Lake itself has the power to reflect entire encounters from elsewhere in Wraeclast. As you explore the Lake, these reflections emerge from its mirrored surface.
  • As you play through the league, you’ll occasionally encounter a set of columns protruding from the ground, with a mirrored tablet on top. This tablet invites you to construct a custom set of encounters at the Lake of Kalandra, offering a series of different reflections to place in whatever layout you wish. Each of these reflections represents an encounter that you must defeat when you next travel to the Lake.
  • As you push farther out onto the Lake’s shrouded waters, you will find each encounter to be more difficult, but more rewarding. This difficulty value counts up by one for each location away from the entrance the encounter is. To manipulate this, there are occasional options that can be chosen which allow you to move and swap the entrance, reflections, and water tiles on the tablet.
  • Additionally, as you progress through the league, you’ll be able to unlock special abilities that let you manipulate the options you have available on each tablet. If you don’t like any of the choices available to you, you can earn the ability to skip picking one entirely. The next ability is even stronger – it lets you reroll the list of options so that you can immediately pick another one. Finally, you can earn the ability to Exile a choice entirely. For the rest of this tablet, that choice will no longer appear.
  • Once you reach maps, you’ll be able to itemise your Mirrored Tablets, so that they don’t have to be played immediately. They can be stored for later or traded with other players.
  • Among the many rewards you can find at the lake is a way of acquiring a new variation of rare jewellery. Some reflecting mist offers you two rings or amulets, perfect mirror copies of each other except that on each item, a set of mods is entirely negated, having a detrimental impact on your character. All of the mods on these items are scaled up to much higher values than they would normally be. You may pick only one of these items to take from the lake.

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  • A rarer version of this reward can also be found that allows you to bring your own ring or amulet, distorting and reflecting it with the same crafting process. It will certainly be tempting to gamble with some of your best jewellery, to try to double the values that really matter for your build, and negate the ones you don’t care about.

Discover the Lake(14)

Complete 14 of the following types of Reflections in the Lake of Kalandra.

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