Remnant of Corruption

Remnant of CorruptionStack Size: 9Corrupts the Essences trapping a monster, modifying them unpredictably
Right click this item then left click a monster trapped by Essences to corrupt them. Corrupted Essences cannot be modified again.
Shift click to unstack.Acquisition
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Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Currency/CurrencyCorruptMonolith Remnant of Corruption is an essence.

Mechanics

Remnant of Corruption

Debuff

You are slowed and taking Physical Damage over time

Takes 6% of Maximum Life as Physical Damage per second
Takes 6% of Maximum Energy Shield as Physical Damage per second
30% reduced Movement Speed

Essences can be corrupted by using a Remnant of CorruptionRemnant of CorruptionStack Size: 9Corrupts the Essences trapping a monster, modifying them unpredictably
Right click this item then left click a monster trapped by Essences to corrupt them. Corrupted Essences cannot be modified again.
Shift click to unstack. on a monster trapped by essence before releasing it.

This will result in one of the following outcomes chosen at random:

• Mobs are broken free with empowered stats.
• All contained essences have their tiers increased by 1 (e.g. 'Screaming' upgraded to 'Shrieking'). Note that the base essence type won't change, and this can't occur with "Deafening" essences.
• Monster may gain one additional essence.
• Transform essence types to random ones from the next type group. E.g., 'of Fear' transformed to 'of Wrath'.
  • Note that this can also increase the tier of the essence if the original is at a lower tier than the minimum for the next tier.
  • Essence of Hysteria, Insanity, Horror and Delirium can only be obtained by corrupting monsters with an essence of tier 5 (MEDS: Misery, Envy, Dread, Scorn).

The "Remnant of Corruption"-possessed monster has a monster aura that deals physical damage over time as well as slow the player character.

The player character cannot leech life from the "Remnant of Corruption"-possessed monster.

On slaying the "Remnant of Corruption"-possessed monster, the remnant is dropped just like normal Essences. Additionally two Fleshmonsters spawn on the drop location.

These possessing effects were in fact due to the essence adding the mods , to the monster.

Version history

Version	Changes
2.4.0	Introduced to the game.