PoE 2: Delirium Guide: Optimize Your Maze Explorations

Path of Exile 2: A Comprehensive Guide to Delirium Endgame Events

Path of Exile 2's Atlas map features four major endgame encounters: Rituals, Breaches, Expeditions, and Delirium. This guide focuses on Delirium, a returning mechanic from previous PoE leagues, detailing how to initiate events, navigate the encounter, utilize the passive skill tree, and maximize rewards.

Understanding the Delirium Fog Mechanic

On the Atlas, map nodes offering guaranteed Delirium events are marked with a distinctive white and black icon resembling the Delirium Mirror. You can guarantee a Delirium event by placing a Delirium Precursor Tablet in a Lost Tower.

Within a Delirium map, locate the multicolored, shattered-glass Delirium Mirror near your spawn. Activating it unleashes a circular fog that expands across the map. Enemies within the fog are significantly stronger but offer superior rewards. Leaving the fog ends the event.

Enemies within the Delirium Fog drop valuable items including Distilled Emotions (used in crafting) and Simulacrum Splinters (for summoning the Pinnacle Boss). Fractured Mirrors, when encountered, trigger additional mob waves and loot. Be wary of Kosis and Omniphobia, full-fledged bosses that may appear randomly.

The Simulacrum Pinnacle Event

High-tier Waystones yield Simulacrum Splinters. Accumulate 300 splinters to create a Simulacrum, placing it in the Realmgate to access the 15-wave Simulacrum event. Difficulty escalates with each wave, and Delirium bosses have an increased chance of appearing in later waves. Completion rewards two Delirium Passive Skill points.

The Delirium Passive Skill Tree

Accessed via the Atlas Passive Skill Tree (top-left button on the Atlas Map, then top-right), the Delirium Passive Skill Tree, shaped like the Delirium Mirror, offers modifiers to enhance rewards or add complexity. Eight Notable nodes and eight difficulty-increasing nodes exist. Each Simulacrum completion grants two points, necessitating increased difficulty for each new Notable node.

Notable Delirium Passive Nodes and Effects:

Prioritize "You Can't Just Wake Up From This One," "Get Out Of My Head!", and "They're Coming To Get You" for optimal reward increases without significant drawbacks.

Delirium Rewards

Delirium Fog-affected enemies drop Distilled Emotions. Bosses also frequently drop them. These currencies anoint amulets with Notable Passive Skills, eliminating the need for passive skill point investment. They can also enhance Waystones with Delirious debuffs. Simulacrum Splinters, dropped by enemies, combine to form Simulacrums for the Pinnacle event, rewarding Delirium Passive points and a guaranteed unique item.

All PoE 2 Distilled Emotions:

Distilled Envy Distilled Fear Distilled Isolation

Mastering the Delirium encounter significantly enhances your endgame progression in Path of Exile 2.