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.

List of pinnacle encounters

• Breach - Xesht, We Who 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..