The Viridian Wildwood

Access

The entrance to the Wildwood in any act or map area is marked by a ring of white Sacred Wisps. Players can explore through the Wildwood until the Sacred Wisps burn out after a set distance of travel. This encounter does not have a timer. Each new instance generates a new Wildwood area, with random layouts and encounters. As the Wildwood shares the instance with the main area, it is affected by map modifiers, including pack size and item quantity.

Once you leave the Viridian Wildwood, all currently collected wisps are released to the main zone and you cannot re-enter the Wildwood. You can open portals inside the Wildwood, but dying or leaving will despawn any portals inside the Wildwood, preventing re-entry.

Wisps

Wisps are a type of non-itemised resource that can be collected while exploring the Wildwood. Wisps do not scale with item quantity from equipment or area modifiers. After exiting the Wildwood area, wisps disperse across the rest of the zone, affecting and enhancing random monsters in a manner somewhat similar to Sentinel's empowerment. Wisps come in three varieties: Primal, Wild, and Vivid. Each type is used for different Affliction vendors, and provides different benefits when affecting monsters:

• 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.

The quantity of Wisps possessed upon exiting the Wildwood will determine the number of monsters affected as well as the magnitude of the empowerment provided. Multiple types of wisps can affect the same monster, stacking their bonuses.

Wisps can also affect monsters that have not been spawned yet such as Breach monsters, even when they are not on the map after completing the Affliction encounter. Some monsters in the Wildwood can also spawn already affected by Wisps.

The fourth type of wisp, Sacred Wisps, are used exclusively to burn away the darkness in the Wildwood and does not have any other effects. Two types of special Sacred Wisp clusters can be found in the Wildwood; a larger pulsating orb that reveals an area around it, or a smaller dim orb that extends the distance the player can explore in the Wildwood.

The Affliction

The Wildwood is covered in a darkness called the "affliction". Enemies in the darkness cannot be damaged or damage you. Sacred Wisps burn the affliction away for a fixed distance of travel, creating a traversable path and unlocking smaller sub-areas containing various encounters. Traveling too deep into the affliction without Sacred Wisps will cause the player to gain a cosmetic debuff that kicks players out of the Wildwood at 10 stacks.

Layout

The Wildwood's actual layout is roughly in the shape of a diamond. In each Wildwood, there are four "events" (anything that causes the affliction to get cleared in a large circle), with one placed in the north, west, east, and south region of the layout. You will spawn anywhere in the Wildwood not too close to an event. If you can find two events, it should give you a better idea of where in the Wildwood you are and help you locate the center and then find the other two events.[1]

Azmeri Wanderers

Azmeri Wanderers are NPCs in the Wildwood that provide quests, allow use of a Wildwood ascendancy class, and offer Affliction-exclusive items for wisps.

• The Warden of Eaves provides quests for the Warden of the Maji and sells Tinctures for Vivid Wisps
• The Breaker of Oaths provides quests for the Warlock of the Mists and sells special Corpses for Wild Wisps
• The Primal Huntress provides quests for the Wildwood Primalist and selles socketable Charms for Primal Wisps

Phenomena

Name	Image	Mechanics
Azmeri God Shrine		Contains a faded inscription about the ancient Azmeri gods
Beyond Rift		Contains random Beyond monsters and a Beyond boss
Funerary Altar		Grants a permanent buff for the instance that has both an upside and downside
Harvest Field		Contains a random colour Harvest plot
King in the Mists' Ritual Grounds		Contains the King in the Mists encounter (Ritual version)
Nameless Seer		Merchant who sells one unique item for all your current wisps
Nameless Shrine		Grants a buff for 5 minutes that is retained upon exiting the Wildwood
Omen Cairn		Drops a random Omen
Sacred Wisps		Extends the distance you have remaining to explore the Wildwood. Large clusters of Sacred Wisps also light the area around them on contact.
Well		Recovers all Life, Mana, and Energy Shield, and refills Flask Charges
Wisp Conversion Tree		Converts all possessed wisps into a chosen wisp type

Nameless Shrine buffs

Nameless Shrines grant 5 minute buffs that are retained upon exiting the Wildwood:

• Ancient Wisdom: You are gaining 200% increased experience
• Dark Gift: You have 200% increased Item Rarity and Quantity
• Sacred Infusion: You have increased Action Speed, Size, Area of Effect, and Damage, and cannot be Damaged

Processions

Processions are a type of permanent buff that grants beneficial effects in exchange for a downside to all players throughout the instance, including outside of the Wildwood, which is removed on death. They are obtained by interacting with Funerary Altars:

• Batrachian Funerary Altar (frog):
  200% increased Flask effect
  80% reduced Flask charges gained
• Cervine Funerary Altar (deer):
  50% increased Damage taken
  Basic Currency Items dropped by slain Enemies have 25% chance to be Duplicated
• Chiropteran Funerary Altar (bat):
  100% incrased Movement Speed
  150% increased Effect of Curses on you
  You are Cursed with Vulnerability
• Corvine Funerary Altar (crow):
  Remove all Armor
  25% increased Action Speed
  Remove all Evasion
• Feline Funerary Altar (cat):
  Always Critically Hit
  Your Minions always Critically Hit
  50% reduced Recovery Rate of Life, Mana and Energy Shield
• Lemuroid Funerary Altar (lemur):
  100% increased damage taken from Damage over Time
  Maps dropped by slain Enemies have 25% chance to be Duplicated
• Leporine Funerary Altar (rabbit):
  50% increased Item Quantity
  100% increased Item Rarity
  You do not gain Experience
• Murine Funerary Altar (rat):
  300% increased Experience
  Monsters do not drop items
• Procyonic Funerary Altar (raccoon):
  -20% to all maximum Resistances
  Divination Cards dropped by slain Enemies have 50% chance to be Duplicated
• Ursine Funerary Altar (bear):
  Hits against you are always Critical Strikes
  Unique Items dropped by slain Enemies have 30% chance to be Duplicated

Bosses

Name	Quest	Mechanics	Drops
Wildwood Abomination	Can appear randomly	Giant treant, uses Ersi, Mother of Thorns' Vine Wall skill, Vine Cascade	Random charms
Troll Shaman	Can appear randomly	Based on Stagnation Map boss	Random tinctures
The Incarnation of Agony	Can appear randomly	Teleports when hit, inflicts Aura of Death	Multiple unique items
The Bleak Bíle The Biting Bíle The Bitter Bíle	Can appear randomly Warden of Eaves Quest 2 - Spiteful Winter	Based on Forbidden Woods Map boss
The King in the Mists (Ritual)	Can appear randomly Breaker of Oaths Quest 2 - Become the Darkness		Ritual Vessel
The Black Mórrigan	Can appear randomly Primal Huntress Quest 2 - Hunt for the Crow	Large crow monster, uses Leap Slam, Ground Slam, Sunder	Chance to drop a blueprint and/or Forbidden Tome
The King in the Mists (Crux of Nothingness)	All NPC Quest 3 - War for the Wildwood		Can drop a random charm One of: Pragmatism, The Untouched Soul, That Which Was Taken, The Burden of Shadows

Rewards

Unique enemies in the Viridian Wildwood have a chance to drop The Trickster's Smile, The Flawed Refuge, or Nametaker .

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