Path of Exile 2: Delirium Guide – Fog Mechanics, Passives, & Rewards

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

Atlas map nodes offering guaranteed Delirium events are marked with a distinctive white and black icon resembling the Delirium Mirror. Alternatively, insert a Delirium Precursor Tablet into a Lost Tower to guarantee a Delirium event on a chosen node.

Within a Delirium map, locate the multi-colored, shattered-glass Delirium Mirror near your spawn point. Approaching it activates the encounter, encircling you in a spreading fog. This fog expands throughout the map, increasing enemy difficulty with its reach. Leaving the fog ends the encounter and resets the map.

Enemies within the fog are empowered and yield unique rewards: Distilled Emotions (used in crafting) and Simulacrum Splinters (for summoning the Pinnacle Boss). Fractured Mirrors, appearing during the encounter, spawn additional waves of enemies and loot. Be wary of Kosis and Omniphobia, full-fledged bosses that can randomly appear during the event.

The Simulacrum Pinnacle Event

Each endgame event provides materials to summon a Pinnacle Boss. High-tier Waystones in Delirium yield Simulacrum Splinters. Accumulate 300 splinters to craft a Simulacrum, placing it in the Realmgate to access the 15-wave Simulacrum event. Difficulty escalates with each wave, increasing the likelihood of encountering Delirium bosses. Completion awards two Delirium Passive points.

Mastering the Delirium Passive Skill Tree

The Delirium Passive Skill Tree, accessible within the Atlas Passive Skill Tree (top-left button on the Atlas Map, then top-right), offers modifiers to enhance rewards or add complexity. Its white, mirror-shaped design is easily identifiable. Eight Notable nodes and eight Simulacrum difficulty-increasing nodes exist.

Each Simulacrum completion grants two passive points, mandating increased difficulty with each new Notable node acquisition.

Notable Delirium Passive Nodes: Prioritize "You Can't Just Wake Up From This One," "Get Out Of My Head!," and "They're Coming To Get You..." for significant reward boosts without substantial drawbacks.

Maximizing Delirium Rewards

Delirium Fog-affected enemies drop Distilled Emotions. Bosses also frequently yield these currencies, which are used to Anoint amulets with Notable Passive Skills or add guaranteed modifiers to Waystones.

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

Simulacrum Splinters, also dropped by enemies, combine to create a Simulacrum for the 15-wave event. Completing this event guarantees a unique item and Delirium Passive points.