Delirium

This Farming Guide covers the basics of farming Delirium in Path of Exile 2, its rewards, and how to challenge the pinnacle encounter, the Simulacrum. This includes the best Atlas Passive Nodes to take for optimized currency generation.

Whilst completing Waystones on your Atlas you encounter maps with the Delirium mechanic on them. Walk through the Mirror at the beginning of the map to start the encounter. Touching it causes a grey mist to spread across the Map in a large circle which then slowly moves forward.

This causes special Delirium monsters to appear and empowers all monsters defensively the further they are from the mirror. Move near Fractured Mirrors that are scattered across the Delirium to release additional packs. Make sure to not fall too far behind however as the fog eventually fades behind you. Staying outside the mist for longer than 4 seconds ends the encounter.

Be careful as every Delirium Encounter has a chance to spawn one of the two unique Bosses: Kosis and Omniphobia.

Killing monsters that are affected by the fog fills up your reward bar shown above your flasks. Delirium specific mobs do so faster and can drop Simulacrum Splinters (Requires Tier 11+ Waystones). The number indicates how many Distilled Emotions drop once the Encounter ends. You may end the encounter early by clicking the UI button above your Skillbar.

The exclusive rewards from Delirium include: Distilled Despair, Distilled Disgust, Distilled Envy, Distilled Fear, Distilled Greed, Distilled Guilt, Distilled Ire, Distilled Isolation, Distilled Paranoia and Distilled Suffering.

Simulacrum Splinter also drop in Waystone tiers 11 and above.

Maps have a chance to naturally contain a Delirium Mirror in them as indicated by the Icon shown above.

To guarantee the Delirium encounter on your Waystones, use a Delirium Precursor Tablet on a Watchtower. This adds a Delirium encounter to the number of Waystones stated on the implicit modifier of the item. Any explicit modifiers apply to all uncompleted maps within the towers radius.

Alternatively, you may Instill your Waystones to have inherent layers of Delirium. Learn how to Instill Waystones in the Distilled Emotions section. Keep in mind this does not stack with Delirium Mirrors so choose one of the two options.

Delirium, like all of the Atlas Mechanics in Path of Exile 2's early access has a Pinnacle Boss encounter. After gathering 300 Simulacrum Splinters and combining them together, you receive a Simulacrum. Place this into the Realmgate at the center of your Atlas (near your Atlas starting location) to open a Portal to the Simulacrum.

In order to complete the Encounter you must fight through 15 waves of monsters that get increasingly more difficult. Each Wave has a selection of randomized negative mods (e.g. "Monsters Penetrate 25% of Elemental Resistances") applied to it which are similar to map mods. After completing a wave you are awarded Delirium specific items, defeating all 15 waves grants you 2 Atlas Passive Points for the Delirium mechanic. Raise the difficulty of the encounter to earn subsequent points on completion. Careful: Wave 15 is extremely difficult to complete.

The difficulty starts off easy but heavily increases as you continue to progress through the waves. Kosis is the most difficult Boss that can spawn during the Simulacrum, with his spawn odds increasing the closer you get to Wave 15. Kosis has a special unique loot table that's shown in the Loot Breakdown below. Omniphobia is another Boss that may spawn but does not possess its own loot table.

All of Kosis' lethal abilities are well telegraphed and intuitive to move out of. One to particularly look out for however is his beam that he channels from his belly which can be lethal when not avoided. Omniphobia attempts to close the distance on you to hit you with various melee attacks but is otherwise very straight forward. Dodge these or stay at a distance if your build allows it.

Allocate these Nodes in order of importance:

1. Get out of my head!
   • Mainly serves to reach the next node in the tree
2. Would you like to see my face?
   • Simulacrums are expensive so this node is an excellent pickup.
   • Beware that it makes your maps harder.
3. The mirrors… the mirrors!
   • Extra packsize for more Splinters and filling your Rewards faster
4. Isn't it tempting?
   • More Rewards to increase your odds of dropping a valuable Distilled Emotion

Right click any Distilled Emotion to open the Instilling UI. Here you may enhance the effects of your Waystones or add a permanent Passive Notable to your Amulet depending on the combination of Emotions you use.

Tip: Three Distilled Paranoias add 36% more Rare monsters to your Maps which are responsible for the majority of Currency drops!

Tip: Hold your Extended Item Description Key when hovering a desired Notable on your Passive Skill Tree to see the Emotions required for Instilling.

3 Distilled Emotions of the same name can be upgraded to the next tier with the Reforging Bench.

Distilled Emotions

You may drop the following Distilled Emotions at the end of your Delirium Encounter:

• Distilled Ire
• Distilled Guilt
• Distilled Greed
• Distilled Paranoia
• Distilled Envy
• Distilled Disgust
• Distilled Despair
• Distilled Fear
• Distilled Isolation
• Distilled Suffering

Simulacrum Splinters

Defeating delirium monsters can drop Simulacrum Splinters. Combine 300 of these to create a Simulacrum, granting access to the Endgame Delirium Encounter.

Pinnacle Boss

Kosis has a Unique Loot Table that gains more items as you increase the Difficulty of the encounter. This is a non-comprehensive list of the Unique Items that can drop;

• Assailum
• Perfidy
• Melting Maelstrom
• Collapsing Horizon

High Difficulty Drops

Megalomaniac and Strugglescream can only drop in Simulacrums that are at least +4 to Difficulty through your Atlas Passives.

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