Pinnacle encounter

Difficulty

Tooltip

Difficulty causes monsters to have increased damage and toughness, as well as making them grant more experience and drop better items.

A pinnacle encounter represents the most difficult and rewarding content relating to a given map mechanic. They general feature a difficult boss. All pinnacle encounters can drop exclusive unique items. Completing a pinnacle encounter at certain difficulty thresholds, including for the first time, will grant two atlas passive skill points for their respective atlas passive trees.

Players do not gain experience during pinnacle encounters, but experience loss on death also does not occur.

List of pinnacle encounters

• Breach - Xesht, We That Are One, accessed through a BreachstoneBreachstoneThe Twisted Breachlord reaches out from his
  Domain with maddened agony and anger.Right click this item to create a stack of 100 Breach Splinters..
• Expedition - Olroth, randomly accessed through Logbooks that are item level 79 and above.
• Ritual - The King in the Mists, accessed with An Audience with the KingAn Audience with the KingOn the edge of existence, he watches with ire.Right click this item to create a stack of 100 Petition Splinters..
• Delirium - Simulacrum, accessed through a SimulacrumSimulacrumHow do you defeat that which dwells within you?Right click this item to create a stack of 100 Simulacrum Splinters..

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	Currently, access to most Pinnacle Content requires the same key at the easiest, and most difficult version of the content. This creates a negative feeling where at lower difficulties, instead of wanting to run the content, you're often better off just selling it to someone who can run it at maximum difficulty. To address this, each content (excluding The Arbiter of Ash) will now drop Splinters, which will not form into singular Items. Instead of using the singular, combined item in the Realmgate, you can now just bring your Splinters. Upon inserting the splinters into the Realmgate, an interface will appear allowing you to pick your difficulty, each with a different entry cost. As a result of this change, the corresponding Atlas Passive Trees no longer affects the difficulty of the content, and has been changed to purely affect the content in the Maps on the Atlas.
0.2.0f	Pinnacle Bosses now have unlimited respawn attempts at Difficulty 0.
0.2.0	Pinnacle boss content now takes roughly half the amount of time to unlock compared to before. In addition, Pinnaccle bosses have been made much easier at Difficulty 0 as well. It's our intention to allow you to face Difficulty 0 of this content much earlier in your endgame progression while still preserving the difficulty of Difficulty 4. Players no longer lose experience from from dying in Simulacrum, The Twisted Domain, Olroth's arena inside Logbooks, the Crux of Nothingness, or The Burning Monolith. Players also no longer gain experience from killing monsters in these areas.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.