Encounter Azmeri Wanderers within the Viridian Wildwood to gain access to special Wildwood Ascendancies! This mechanic was added as part of the 3.23 Affliction League patch. In addition to each Wildwood Ascendancy, the Azmeri Wanderers have their own unique and fully tradable vendor items!

Explore the Viridian Wildwood to obtain a Wildwood Ascendancy in addition to your normal Ascendancy class. This isn't obtained from the Eternal Labrynth, and instead requires you to enter the Viridian Wildwood and cleanse the Affliction lurking there.

To obtain a Wildwood Ascendancy you need to meet one of the 3 Azmeri Wanderers. The Warden of Eaves, the Breaker of Oaths, and the Primal Huntress. Like with Path of Exile's normal Ascendancy classes, you need to obtain 8 Ascendancy points. Completing questlines grants 2 Wildwood Ascendancy points. The first 6 are relatively easy to obtain, but the last 2 require you to defeat Affliction League's new boss the King in the Mists

You can swap your Wildwood Ascendancy at any time by speaking to an Azmeri Wanderer, but if you haven't used the Ascendancy before you'll still need to complete that Wanderer's quests to get your points. Furthermore, you don't need to have the ascendancy active to complete the quests. So you can defeat the King in the Mists once to unlock the final 2 Ascendancy points for all 3 Wildwood Ascendancies. The Azmeri Wanderers can be encountered from level 1 but subsequent quests require level 20, 50, and 80 zones respectively.

Wildwood Ascendancy Quests:

The Warden of the Maji offers bonuses to Attack builds in the form of Tinctures, along side powerful defensive bonuses like Barkskin.

A Warden of the Maji can put Tinctures in their Flask slots to apply permanent bonuses to their weapons. Only 1 Tincture can be active at a time, but activating the Tincture swaps between different effects. The Warden of Eaves sells Tinctures in exchange for Vivid Wisps. These are tradable, so be sure to check the shop whenever it refreshes even if you aren't playing a Warden of the Maji!

The Warden of the Maji is a great choice for attack builds. You exchange 1 or more Flask slots for the powerful Tincture bonuses. The Barkskin buffs offers a powerful defense which gives you Armour and Evasion when you need them the most.

The Warlock of the Mists has new ways to scale your maximum Life, several exclusive Curses and the powerful Ravenous skill.

Mouse over a corpse and Ravenous identifies the type of monster, then use the skill to consume the corpse and gain a bonus against that type of monster. You can only have one damage bonus at a time and consuming another corpse will swap the bonus. Some monsters like Bosses have the "Eldritch" subtype, which doesn't naturally occur on Corpses. To obtain Eldritch Corpses, purchase them from the Breaker of Oaths.

The Breaker of Oaths sells various rare corpses for Wild Wisps. These include monsters which occur rarely, or whose corpses cannot be obtained through normal gameplay. So even if you aren't planning to play a Warlock of the Mists check his shop for valuable dead to sell to other Exiles.

If you're feeling experimental, you can Spectre these corpses (such as the Guardian of the Hydra). These monsters cannot be Desecrated, so if your Spectre dies you'll need another corpse from the Breaker of Oaths or another player. Corpses are divided into 3 rarities. Imperfect, which lack many of the monster's regular abilities, normal, and Perfect where they gain additional abilities including Auras and buffs for the Spectre's owner.

Some Corpses include:

The Warlock of the Mists is a great choice for Minion and Life builds. While anyone can purchase and use the special corpses as Spectres, the Affliction Curse adds a new ways to make your minions explode. Penance Mark enables on kill effects for bosses, since the Phantasms are hostile to the player and can be used to sustain Vaal Souls, or proliferate Ailments. If you're playing a Life build, Cannibalised Faith adds a lot of damage. However, your Aura options are limited by the effects of Sanguimancy.

The Wildwood Primalist is the most versatile Wildwood Ascendancy. You get extra loot from the corpses of slain foes, a small bag for extra inventory space and the "build your own ascendancy" via the Charm system. Even if you aren't playing a Wildwood Primalist, always check the Primal Huntress's shop for new Charms for future use, or to sell to other Exiles.

The Wildwood Rucksack is a small extra backpack exclusive to the Wildwood Primalist with a 4x5 grid offering 20 total inventory spaces. In most cases you'll have enough portals to bring all the loot you want back out of your Maps, but if you only need to fit that last item in this can save you some time. What can you bring back to your hideout with 33% more inventory space?

Purchase Charms from the Primal Huntress for Primal Wisps. Place Charms in the 3 Charm slots on the Wildwood Primalist to combine effects from the regular Path of Exile Ascendancies.

You can find a complete list of charms on the Path of Exile Wiki.

What Wildwood Ascendancy will you pick?

Grinding Gear Games revealed a ton of information on Affliction League and Path of Exile 2! The new PoE2 Mercenary Class, Crossbows, and Attachments bring shooter flare to the ARPG Genre. The 3.23 League brings the new Affliction mechanic, Wildwood Ascendancies, Ultimatum and the new Transfigured Gems.

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