Essence league

Ultimatum Patch Notes

Essence Changes

• Various Essence outcomes have been rebalanced. Please read the Essence Balance section for more information.

Breach Patch Notes

Essence Changes:

• Added the contents of the Essence League to the core game. You can now find monsters trapped in Essences throughout Wraeclast, but at a lower rate than when it was the current challenge league.
• The rate of finding multiple essences at once has been significantly increased in maps (especially higher maps).
• At level 47 areas and above, Whispering Essences can no longer appear.
• At level 67 areas and above, Muttering Essences can no longer appear.
• The values of mods from Wailing Essences of Woe and above have been reduced, resulting in a notably lower value of all mods from higher-tier Woe essences.
• Fixed a minor issue where the Muttering Essence of Woe amulet mod granted values that were 1% too low.
• The gloves mod from Essence of Insanity now grant "Socketed gems have 16% More Attack and Cast Speed" (down from 20%). Existing items will not be changed.
• The weapon mod from Essence of Horror now grants a 16% chance to gain a power, frenzy or endurance charge on kill (up from 10%). Old versions of this mod can be updated using a Divine Orb.
• The weapon mod from Essence of Delirium now deals 750 chaos damage per second for 10 seconds (down from 1,000).

Introduction

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.

Minimap

These new icons are introduced to the minimap:

Modifiers

All areas had:

• Areas can contain Imprisoned Monsters
  map extra content weighting [1]

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.