The Viridian Wildwood
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The Viridian Wildwood is an area containing an affliction encounter that can be found in map during Affliction league.
Access
The entrance to the Wildwood in any act or map area is marked by a ring of white Sacred Wisps. Players can explore through the Wildwood until the Sacred Wisps burn out after a set distance of travel. This encounter does not have a timer. Each new instance generates a new Wildwood area, with random layouts and encounters. As the Wildwood shares the instance with the main area, it is affected by map modifiers, including pack size and item quantity.
Wisps
Wisps are a type of non-itemised resource that can be collected while exploring the Wildwood. Wisps do not scale with item quantity from equipment or area modifiers. After exiting the Wildwood area, wisps disperse across the rest of the zone, affecting and enhancing random monsters in a manner somewhat similar to Sentinel's empowerment. Wisps come in three varieties: Primal, Wild, and Vivid. Each type is used for different Affliction vendors, and provides different benefits when affecting monsters:
- Primal (Blue) Wisps cause them to drop currency items.
- Wild (Purple) Wisps grant an item rarity bonus.
- Vivid (Yellow) Wisps grant an item quantity bonus.
Multiple types of wisps can affect the same monster.
Wisps can also affect monsters that have not been spawned yet such as Breach monsters, even when they are not on the map after completing the Affliction encounter. Some monsters in the Wildwood can also spawn already affected by Wisps.
The Affliction
The Wildwood is covered in a darkness called the "affliction". Enemies in the darkness cannot be damaged or damage you. Sacred Wisps burn the affliction away for a fixed distance of travel, creating a traversable path and unlocking smaller sub-areas containing various encounters.
NPCs
- Primal Wisps can be used to purchase Charms from the Primal Huntress.
- Wild Wisps can be used to purchase special corpses from the Breaker of Oaths
- Vivid Wisps can be used to purchase tinctures from the Warden of Eaves