Pinnacle encounter

Difficulty

Tooltip

Difficulty causes monsters to have increased damage and life, as well as improving the items they drop.

Certain Bosses with increased difficulty will gain new abilities and begin to drop exclusive items, and have a reduced number of Respawn Attempts.Most endgame content allows for a limited number of deaths before you can no longer access the area. Most areas allow unlimited leaving and re-entry for other reasons except while fighting a boss.

On death during a boss fight, the Map Owner may respawn all players into a new instance of the area to attempt the boss fight again.

The number of modifiers on a Waystone will reduce the number of Revivals available allowed when opening a Map. For pinnacle endgame content, increased Difficulty will reduce the number of Revivals available.

Difficulty above 4 has no additional effect.

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

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

List of pinnacle encounters

Core game mechanics

• Breach - Xesht, We That Are One, accessed using Breach SplintersBreach SplinterStack Size: 300Consume at least 50 Splinters at the Realmgate to enter the Twisted Domain..
• Expedition - Olroth, Origin of the Fall, accessed using Runic SplintersRunic SplinterStack Size: 300Consume at least 50 Splinters at the Realmgate to travel to the Kalguuran Tomb..
• Ritual - The King in the Mists, accessed using Petition SplintersPetition SplinterStack Size: 300Consume at least 50 Splinters at the Realmgate to travel to the Crux of Nothingness..
• Delirium - The Simulacrum, accessed using Simulacrum SplintersSimulacrum SplinterStack Size: 300Consume at least 50 Splinters at the Realmgate to enter the Simulacrum..

Temporary game mechanics

• Abyss - Vessel of Kulemak, accessed by bringing Kulemak's InvitationKulemak's InvitationSomething awaits you in the Well.Something awaits you in the Well. to the Well of Souls

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.