The King in the Mists

For the random encounter in the Viridian Wildwood, see The King in the Mists (Wildwood encounter).

The King in the Mists
The King in the Mists
Level(s)	84
Location(s)	Crux of Nothingness
Quest(s)	File:War for the Wildwood quest icon.pngWar for the Wildwood
Resistance(s)	50% Fire 50% Cold 50% Lightning 30% Chaos
Modifier(s)	Cannot Be Fully Slowed Humanoid

The King of the Mists is the major antagonist of Affliction league and the Viridian Wildwood. He is also a boss associated with Rituals.

Entry

The King in the Mist's boss arena, Crux of Nothingness, can be accessed by using An Audience With The KingAn Audience With The KingOn the edge of existence,
he watches with ire.Open a portal to the Crux of Nothingness by using this item in a personal Map Device. Can only be used once. on the map device, which can appear as a reward from Ritual encounters.

Mechanics

Phase 1

The battle begins in a circular arena with three raised platforms that can be accessed using walkways. A large Ritual altar stands in the center of the arena, and three smaller "Mystic Fetish" altars on the platforms.

• Vine Cascade - Thorngrip!/Lonnsaigh! - Creating a cascade of phys+chaos conversion tendrils.
• Vine Nova - Invasive growth!/Grow!/Sprout!/Fás! - Raises his staff before slamming it, creating an Ice NovaIce NovaSpell, AoE, Cold, Nova
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (8-23) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.70 sec
  Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: (200-230)%
  AoE Radius: 30Requires Level 12A circle of ice expands from the caster.Deals (23-988) to (34-1481) Cold Damage
  Base radius is (2.6-3) metres
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Base radius is (0.015-0.3) metresPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. that Chills the player.
• Teleport - Nothingness approaches!/Bid the darkness! - Teleports to a platform, activating a Mystic Fetish which causes players to gain stacks of Portent Vapors, increasing damage taken and causes the following arena hazards:
  • Exploding Toads - Creates a patch of Viscous Swamp, spawning purple toads that hop towards the player before exploding, dealing chaos damage.
  • Blood Ritual - Creates large red patches of boiling blood that inflict physical damage over time.
  • Caustic Ground - Creates small green patches of Caustic Ground.
  • Soulrend - Central ritual altar fires slow moving purple SoulrendSoulrendChaos, Spell, AoE, Duration, Projectile
    Level: (1-20)
    Cost: (14-26) Mana
    Cast Time: 0.80 sec
    Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
    Effectiveness of Added Damage: 170%Requires Level 28Fires a projectile that turns towards enemies in front of it, damaging and piercing through those it hits, and leeching some of that damage as energy shield. As the projectile travels, it repeatedly applies a short but powerful chaos damage over time debuff to each enemy in an area around it.Deals (21-885) to (31-1327) Chaos Damage
    Projectiles Pierce all Targets
    Deals (180.8-2642.5) Base Chaos Damage per second
    Base duration is 0.60 seconds
    Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect
    4% of Spell Damage Leeched as Energy Shield
    
    Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
    Base duration is (0.01-0.2) secondsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. projectiles.
  • Summon Plagued Rats
  • All altars activated - Embrace nothingness!/The darkness, exultant!
• Summon Effigy - Dark effigy!/Marked for death!/Leth-creag!/Agrik armach! - Creates an effigy.
• Ritual of Dance - Keep running!/Rith! - Inflicts a debuff for 8 seconds, imprisoning players if they stand still and inflicting Maim afterwards.
• Ritual of Meditation - Traveler's bane!/You are seen!/Slaogarn! - Inflicts a debuff for 8 seconds, imprisoning players if they move and inflicting Maim afterwards.
• Maze Teleport - The border of my realm grows closer.../A sliver of what my home feels like. - Teleports players to a maze, starting phase 2.

Phase 2

The player is teleported to a very large arena covered in a maze of thick vines which cannot be crossed. The arena fills with Branching Affliction, a stacking debuff that deals physical and chaos damage over time. Follow the Sacred Wisps' path towards the large purple portal back to the arena.

Phase 3

The player is returned to the arena from phase 1, where the King in the Mists' body disintegrates and emerges as a large treant. The platforms are now covered in purple fire.

• Become a Treant - The Wildwood's power... is mine! - Starts phase 3
• Treant Slam - Oblivion awaits!/An dire ed! -
• Soulrend - Central ritual altar fires slow moving purple SoulrendSoulrendChaos, Spell, AoE, Duration, Projectile
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (14-26) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.80 sec
  Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: 170%Requires Level 28Fires a projectile that turns towards enemies in front of it, damaging and piercing through those it hits, and leeching some of that damage as energy shield. As the projectile travels, it repeatedly applies a short but powerful chaos damage over time debuff to each enemy in an area around it.Deals (21-885) to (31-1327) Chaos Damage
  Projectiles Pierce all Targets
  Deals (180.8-2642.5) Base Chaos Damage per second
  Base duration is 0.60 seconds
  Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect
  4% of Spell Damage Leeched as Energy Shield
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Base duration is (0.01-0.2) secondsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. projectiles.
• Bug Bomb - Gate to nothingness!/The end of meaning is nigh! - Fires a large purple orb, dealing physical and chaos damage and inflicting Shadow Surge, an accelerating physical damage over time.
• Summon Effigy - Dark effigy!/Marked for death!/Leth-creag!/Agrik armach! - Creates an effigy.
• Ritual of Dance - Keep running!/Rith! - Inflicts a debuff for 8 seconds, imprisoning players if they stand still and inflicting Maim afterwards.
• Ritual of Meditation - Traveler's bane!/You are seen!/Slaogarn! - Inflicts a debuff for 8 seconds, imprisoning players if they move and inflicting Maim afterwards.
• Exploding Toads - Creates a patch of Viscous Swamp, spawning purple toads that hop towards the player before exploding, dealing chaos damage.
• Blood Ritual - Creates large red patches of boiling blood that inflict physical and fire damage over time.
• Caustic Ground - Creates small green patches of Caustic Ground.

Standing near the King in the Mists while he has his staff raised to use a skill inflicts a short-duration debuff of Mystic Miasma, dealing cold and chaos damage over time.

Items found from this monster

Item	Drop Level
PragmatismPragmatism Colosseum PlateArmour: (883-1295) Movement Speed: -5%Requires Level 49, 134 Str+12 to Level of Socketed Skill Gems (80-120)% increased Armour +(60-100) to maximum Mana -2 to level of Socketed Skill Gems per Socketed GemThe Maji were forbidden from touching virtue gems... so their practical warriors employed geomancy instead.	N/A	49
The Untouched SoulThe Untouched Soul Gold AmuletRequires Level 48(12-20)% increased Rarity of Items found+40 to maximum Life for each Empty Red Socket on any Equipped Item +225 to Accuracy Rating for each Empty Green Socket on any Equipped Item +40 to maximum Mana for each Empty Blue Socket on any Equipped Item +18% to all Elemental Resistances for each Empty White Socket on any Equipped ItemGeomancy offered a safer way to use the Tears... but the Maji rejected that temptation as well.	N/A	48
The Light of MeaningThe Light of Meaning Prismatic JewelLimited to: 1 Radius: LargePassive Skills in Radius also grant <random stat>To name a thing is to give it power.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.	N/A	1

The King in the Mists also has a chance to drop a corpse item.

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Version history

Version	Changes
3.25.0	Added a new Fragment, An Audience With The KingAn Audience With The KingOn the edge of existence, he watches with ire.Open a portal to the Crux of Nothingness by using this item in a personal Map Device. Can only be used once., which grants access to the King in the Mists boss fight. He will drop a number of uniques that were familiar from that league. This Fragment has also been added to the Fragment Stash Tab. That Which Was TakenThat Which Was Taken Crimson JewelLimited to: 1<4 random Charm modifiers>Faith given under false pretenses still carries the same power.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket. replaced with The Light of MeaningThe Light of Meaning Prismatic JewelLimited to: 1 Radius: LargePassive Skills in Radius also grant <random stat>To name a thing is to give it power.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket. in The King in the Mist's unique item drop pool.[Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.] PragmatismPragmatism Colosseum PlateArmour: (883-1295) Movement Speed: -5%Requires Level 49, 134 Str+12 to Level of Socketed Skill Gems (80-120)% increased Armour +(60-100) to maximum Mana -2 to level of Socketed Skill Gems per Socketed GemThe Maji were forbidden from touching virtue gems... so their practical warriors employed geomancy instead., The Untouched SoulThe Untouched Soul Gold AmuletRequires Level 48(12-20)% increased Rarity of Items found+40 to maximum Life for each Empty Red Socket on any Equipped Item +225 to Accuracy Rating for each Empty Green Socket on any Equipped Item +40 to maximum Mana for each Empty Blue Socket on any Equipped Item +18% to all Elemental Resistances for each Empty White Socket on any Equipped ItemGeomancy offered a safer way to use the Tears... but the Maji rejected that temptation as well., and have been removed from the core drop pool, and once again drop from the King in the Mists. [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]
3.23.1	(Hotfix 3) The King in the Mists Boss is now immune to Knockback. This prevents a situation where he could be too far away from the altars and the fight could no longer progress.
3.23.0b	The Ritual of Dance and Ritual of Meditation debuffs are now removed when The King in the Mists teleports you to the maze.
3.23.0	Introduced to the game.