Essence (encounter)

Essence

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Essence monsters are powerful monsters trapped in crystallised corruption.

Breaking these monsters free allows them to be defeated, dropping the Essence that can then be used to modify equipment.

For the currency, see Essence.

Monsters trapped in essence crystals

Essence encounters are a randomly occurring encounter found in both campaign and endgame. The player may encounter monsters frozen in solidified crystal corruption. This always consists of a single rare monster and its minions. They may be broken free by interacting with the crystal around the rare monster 3 times.

The rare monster will have one or more Essences, each of which grant it additional abilities. After being defeated, it will drop the essences.

Like other rare monsters, the encounter does not respawn if the area is reset by player death.

List of Essence monster modifiers

List of Essence monster modifiers

Essence type	Monster modifier description
Essence of Battle
Essence of Electricity
Essence of Enhancement	Periodically creates a ring of bone walls around the monster
Essence of Flames
Essence of Haste
Essence of Ice	Periodically fires two ice ball projectiles that explode into projectile novas
Essence of Ruin
Essence of Sorcery
Essence of the Body
Essence of the Infinite	Periodically creates yellows spikes on the ground which fly upward.
Essence of the Mind
Essence of Torment

Version history

Version	Changes
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.