The Twilight Strand (Act 1)

The Twilight Strand

area

Id	1_1_1
Act	1
Area level	1
Bosses	Hillock
Tags	no_tempests, area_with_water
Connections	Lioneye's Watch

Hope was drowned here.

The Twilight Strand is the first area of Act 1 and is connected to Lioneye's Watch. It is the first area in the game. It has a 1 minute Grace Period. It is impossible to return to The Twilight Strand on a character that has entered Lioneye's Watch (Act 1) as Portal ScrollsPortal ScrollStack Size: 40Creates a portal to townRight click on this item to use it. cannot be used in The Twilight Strand and it has no waypoint or entrance.

Area mechanics

The character begins lying down, immobile. Once the player clicks to move, they slowly rise and the player gains control. The character begins with 3 Scrolls of WisdomScroll of WisdomStack Size: 40Identifies an itemRight click this item then left click an unidentified item to apply it. in the bottom left corner of their inventory, two normal Small Life FlasksSmall Life FlaskRecovers 70 Life over 3.00 Seconds
Consumes 7 of 21 Charges on useRight click to drink. Can only hold charges while in belt. Refills as you kill monsters. equipped in their leftmost flask slots, and one normal Small Mana FlaskSmall Mana FlaskRecovers 50 Mana over 3.00 Seconds
Consumes 6 of 24 Charges on useRight click to drink. Can only hold charges while in belt. Refills as you kill monsters. equipped in their rightmost flask slot. This area has many tutorial popups and mechanics. These mechanics can be disabled by clicking the "skip all tutorials" button above the experience bar.

A class-dependant normal weapon with two linked sockets can be found on the ground nearby, next to the Dying Exile. If the Dying Exile's dialogue is triggered while the character has no equipped weapon, their dialogue will advise the character to equip a weapon. If their dialogue is triggered while the character has an equipped, their new dialogue will be interrupted by a corpse next to them reanimating as a Hungry Corpse and killing them. When killed, the Hungry Corpse will drop a class-dependant skill gem.

A Large Chest containing a class-dependant support gem lies further along the shore, resting at a point where the path of the shore narrows.

When the boss of the area, Hillock is killed, a town entrance to Lioneye's Watch will open.

The time period required for The Twilight Strand's instance to reset is lower than that of most other areas in the game, at approximately 1 minute and 30 seconds. This may be beneficial to players attempting to acquire Oni-GoroshiOni-Goroshi
Charan's SwordOne Handed Sword
Physical Damage: 5-11
Critical Strike Chance: (8.50-9.50)%
Attacks per Second: 1.45
Weapon Range: 1.1 metres40% increased Global Accuracy RatingUses both hand slots
(70-90)% increased Critical Strike Chance
Adds 2 to 3 Physical Damage to Attacks per Level
Gain Her Embrace for 3 seconds when you Ignite an Enemy
While in Her Embrace, take 0.5% of your total Maximum Life and Energy Shield as Fire Damage per second per Level
Item has 6 Sockets and is fully linked (Hidden)
Uses goddess player audio (Hidden)"Your name is Demon Slayer? Really? Good name for rotgut, that."
She said: I prefer "The Goddess Of Swords". Much more dignified. And accurate.
"Demon Slayer The Cheap And Nasty it is then. Burns going down, burns coming up?"
She said: Every single time, Charan. And still...you'll bathe me, and you'll drink my love. Until you can't., a unique weapon only acquirable from "Uber Hillock" - a special variant of Hillock rarely encountered in The Twilight Strand.

Class-dependant gem drops

Class	Weapon	Skill Gem	Support Gem
Marauder	Driftwood ClubDriftwood ClubOne Handed Mace Physical Damage: 6-8 Critical Strike Chance: 5.00% Attacks per Second: 1.45 Weapon Range: 1.1 metres10% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold	Heavy StrikeHeavy StrikeAttack, Melee, Strike Level: (1-20) Cost: 5 Mana Attack Speed: 85% of base Attack Damage: (195-313)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (195-313)%Attacks enemies with a forceful blow, knocking them back. Requires a Mace, Sceptre, Axe, Sword or Two-Handed Weapon.Knocks Enemies Back on Hit 25% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold +0.2 metres to Melee Strike Range (20-39)% chance to deal Double Damage Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% chance to deal Double DamagePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.	Ruthless SupportRuthless SupportSlam, Support, Melee, Attack, Strike Icon: u Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Supports melee strike or slam skills. Every third time you use a supported attack, that use of the skill will be more powerful.Every third Attack with Supported Melee Attacks deals a Ruthless Blow Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal (70-98)% more Melee Damage Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills deal (70-98)% more Damage with Ailments caused by Melee Hits Ruthless Blows with Supported Skills have a base Stun Duration of 0.8 seconds Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Attack DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
Duelist	Rusted SwordRusted SwordOne Handed Sword Physical Damage: 4-9 Critical Strike Chance: 5.00% Attacks per Second: 1.55 Weapon Range: 1.1 metres40% increased Global Accuracy Rating	Double StrikeDouble StrikeAttack, Melee, Strike, Physical Level: (1-20) Cost: 5 Mana Attack Speed: 80% of base Attack Damage: (91-140)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (91-140)%Performs two fast strikes with a melee weapon.25% chance to cause Bleeding Adds (3-113) to (5-169) Physical Damage against Bleeding Enemies Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% chance to deal Double Damage to Bleeding EnemiesPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.	Chance to Bleed SupportChance to Bleed SupportAttack, Physical, Support Icon: E Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Supports attack skills. Cannot support skills that create minions.Supported Attacks deal (1-44) to (2-66) added Physical Damage with Weapons Supported Attacks have 25% chance to cause Bleeding Supported Attacks deal (0-19)% more Damage with Bleeding Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Attacks deal (0.5-10)% increased Damage with BleedingThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
Ranger	Crude BowCrude BowBow Physical Damage: 5-13 Critical Strike Chance: 5.00% Attacks per Second: 1.40	Burning ArrowBurning ArrowAttack, Projectile, Fire, Bow Level: (1-20) Cost: (7-12) Mana Attack Speed: 70% of base Attack Damage: (200-300)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (200-300)% Projectile Speed: 3260Fires a burning arrow that deals fire damage and has a chance to ignite.Adds (3-201) to (4-302) Fire Damage to Attacks against Ignited Enemies 25% chance to Ignite enemies 100% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% more Damage with IgnitePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.	Momentum SupportMomentum SupportAttack, Support, Duration Icon: n Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Supports attack skills that aren't triggered.Gain 1 Momentum when you Use a Supported Skill Gain 1 Momentum every (0.70-0.51) seconds while Channelling a Supported Skill Lose all Momentum if you Move Supported Skills have (15-20)% increased Attack Speed per Momentum When you reach (3-5) Momentum, lose all Momentum and gain Swiftness for 1.5 seconds Swiftness grants 15% increased Movement Speed per Momentum lost Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Swiftness lasts +(0.025-0.5) secondsThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
Shadow	Glass ShankGlass ShankDagger Physical Damage: 6-10 Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Attacks per Second: 1.50 Weapon Range: 1.0 metres30% increased Global Critical Strike Chance	Viper StrikeViper StrikeAttack, Duration, Melee, Strike, Chaos Level: (1-20) Cost: 5 Mana Attack Damage: (90-154)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (90-154)%Hits enemies, converting some of your physical damage to chaos damage and inflicting poison which will be affected by modifiers to skill duration. If dual wielding, will strike with both weapons. Requires a claw, dagger or sword.30% less Attack Speed if Dual Wielding Each Weapon Hits separately if Dual Wielding, dealing 20% less Damage Base duration is 4.00 seconds (5-169) to (7-254) Added Chaos Damage 60% of Physical Damage Converted to Chaos Damage 60% chance to Poison on Hit Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Base duration is (0.05-1) secondsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.	Chance to Poison SupportChance to Poison SupportChaos, Support Icon: O Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Supports any skill that hits enemies.Supported Skills have 40% chance to Poison on Hit Supported Skills have (1-94) to (2-141) added Chaos Damage Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Damage with PoisonThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
Witch	Driftwood WandDriftwood WandWand Physical Damage: 5-9 Critical Strike Chance: 7.00% Attacks per Second: 1.40(8-12)% increased Spell Damage	FireballFireballProjectile, Spell, AoE, Fire Level: (1-20) Cost: (6-25) Mana Cast Time: 0.75 sec Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: 370% Projectile Speed: 1040 AoE Radius: 9Unleashes a ball of fire towards a target which explodes, damaging nearby foes.Deals (9-1640) to (14-2460) Fire Damage 25% chance to Ignite enemies Base radius is (0.9-1.4) metres Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Base radius is (0.01-0.2) metresPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.	Arcane Surge SupportArcane Surge SupportArcane, Support, Spell, Duration Icon: N Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Each supported spell will track how much mana you spend on it, granting a buff when the total mana spent reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, mines or skills with a reservation.Gain Arcane Surge after Spending a total of (15-400) Mana on Upfront Costs and Effects of a Supported Skill Arcane Surge grants (10-20)% increased Cast Speed Arcane Surge grants (30-58)% increased Mana Regeneration rate Arcane Surge lasts 4 seconds Supported Skills deal (10-25)% more Spell Damage while you have Arcane Surge Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Spell DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
Templar	Driftwood SceptreDriftwood SceptreSceptre Physical Damage: 8-11 Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Attacks per Second: 1.20 Weapon Range: 1.1 metres10% increased Elemental Damage	Glacial HammerGlacial HammerAttack, Melee, Strike, Cold Level: (1-20) Cost: 5 Mana Attack Damage: (165-269)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (165-269)%Hits enemies, converting some of your physical damage to cold damage. If a non-unique enemy is frozen and is on less than one third life, they will shatter when hit by Glacial Hammer. If striking three times in a row, the third strike will freeze enemies more easily. Requires a Mace, Sceptre or Staff.25% chance to Freeze enemies 100% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage Every third successive strike Freezes enemies as though dealing (200-390)% more Damage +0.2 metres to Melee Strike Range 35% increased Duration of Cold Ailments (10-29)% increased Effect of Cold Ailments Adds (2-75) to (3-113) Cold Damage against Chilled Enemies Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Every third successive strike Freezes enemies as though dealing (5-100)% more DamagePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.	Elemental Proliferation SupportElemental Proliferation SupportCold, Fire, Lightning, Support, AoE Icon: S Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 110%Supports any skill that hits enemies, or could otherwise apply elemental ailments.(0-19)% increased Duration of Elemental Ailments on Enemies Elemental Ailments inflicted by Supported Skills spread to other enemies within (1.2-1.5) metres Supported Skills have 20% chance to Freeze, Shock and Ignite Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (0.5-10)% increased Duration of Elemental Ailments on EnemiesThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.
Scion	Rusted SwordRusted SwordOne Handed Sword Physical Damage: 4-9 Critical Strike Chance: 5.00% Attacks per Second: 1.55 Weapon Range: 1.1 metres40% increased Global Accuracy Rating	Spectral ThrowSpectral ThrowAttack, Projectile Level: (1-20) Cost: (5-8) Mana Attack Speed: 110% of base Attack Damage: (80-125)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (80-125)% Projectile Speed: 1000Throws a spectral copy of your melee weapon. It flies out and then returns to you, in a spinning attack that damages enemies in its path. Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Projectiles that have Pierced deal (0.5-10)% more DamagePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.	Prismatic Burst SupportPrismatic Burst SupportSupport, Spell, AoE, Fire, Cold, Lightning, Prismatic, Trigger Icon: J Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130% Cooldown Time: 0.80 sec Can Store 1 Use(s) Cast Time: 1.00 sec Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%Supports attacks, causing them to trigger the Prismatic Burst spell. Cannot support triggered attacks or attacks used by things other than you. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Supported Skills will Trigger Prismatic Burst on Hit Deals (3-1224) to (5-1836) Cold Damage Deals (1-153) to (7-2907) Lightning Damage Deals (3-1224) to (5-1836) Fire Damage +(0-0.9) metres to radius Deals 100% less Damage of each unchosen Damage Type (0-57)% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% increased Elemental DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.

Environment

NPCs

• Dying Exile: Hungry Corpse will attack and interrupt them, killing them if the character has an equipped weapon. Afterwards, they can no longer be interacted with. They will reappear in new instances of The Twilight Strand.

Unique enemies

• Hillock is the unique boss for The Twilight Strand. He can be encountered at the end of the area, close to the south entrance of Lioneye's Watch (Act 1). He can be rarely replaced with more difficult version of himself, colloquially known as Uber Hillock". Hillock does physical damage with melee attacks.

Monster packs

• Hungry Corpse is a zombie lying next to the Dying Exile. The Hungry Corpse deals physical damage with melee attacks and is guaranteed to drop a class-dependant skill gem.

• Drowned are zombies that appear in packs of 2 and 3, scattered around the area. Drowned deal physical damage with melee attacks. Some Drowned may initially appear laying immobile on the ground. They will rise and become hostile once the player exile comes into a certain range.

• Sand Spitters are insects that appear in packs of 2 and 3, scattered around the area. Sand Spitters deal physical damage with projectile attacks.

Layout

The Twilight Strand consists of two sections.

• Starting area. The starting area is a relatively closed-off part of the area, bordered by the shore, rock walls and rocks. The starting area is where th player exile initially washes up. The starting weapon, the Hungry Corpse, and the Dying Exile can be found in this area. If the tutorial is not disabled, a red wall will block player from exiting this area if they have not yet socketed their skill gem into their weapon.

• Main body section. The largest part of the area, Drowned, Sand Spitters, Crates, Barrels and wooden rampart environmental objects can be encountered here. Halfway across this section, at a point where the shore temporarily grows narrower, a Large Chest can be found containing a class-dependant support gem. At the end of this main body section, the boss Hillock can be encountered, next to the southern entrance to Lioneye's Watch

Environmental objects

• Crates - a type of loot container found scattered individually around The Twilight Strand.

• Barrels - a type of loot container found in larger and smaller variants scattered around the area. The larger barrels are found surrounded by several of the smaller barrels.

• Corpses - a type of loot container found in singular scattered around the area.

• Wooden rampart walls - an environmental object scattered around the area. They may block projectiles and movement.

Quests

• Enemy at the Gate

Gallery

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  A square, wooden crate.

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  A large barrel surrounded by smaller barrels.

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  The skip all tutorials button.

Items found in this area

The following drop-restricted items can drop in this area.

No items include this area in their drop restrictions. Despite The Twilight Strand having no drops exclusive to the area, the unique item Oni-GoroshiOni-Goroshi
Charan's SwordOne Handed Sword
Physical Damage: 5-11
Critical Strike Chance: (8.50-9.50)%
Attacks per Second: 1.45
Weapon Range: 1.1 metres40% increased Global Accuracy RatingUses both hand slots
(70-90)% increased Critical Strike Chance
Adds 2 to 3 Physical Damage to Attacks per Level
Gain Her Embrace for 3 seconds when you Ignite an Enemy
While in Her Embrace, take 0.5% of your total Maximum Life and Energy Shield as Fire Damage per second per Level
Item has 6 Sockets and is fully linked (Hidden)
Uses goddess player audio (Hidden)"Your name is Demon Slayer? Really? Good name for rotgut, that."
She said: I prefer "The Goddess Of Swords". Much more dignified. And accurate.
"Demon Slayer The Cheap And Nasty it is then. Burns going down, burns coming up?"
She said: Every single time, Charan. And still...you'll bathe me, and you'll drink my love. Until you can't. can only be dropped from a Hillock variant found in this area. Additionally, the QuickstepQuickstepSpell, Movement, Travel, Blink
Level: 1
Cooldown Time: 10.00 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)
Cast Time: 0.15 secPerforms a series of quick teleports towards a targeted location, stopping if you would overlap with monsters or terrain. If using the "Attack in Place" option, the direction is reversed. Shares a cooldown with other Blink skills. Cannot be supported.200% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate if used while a Unique Enemy is in your Presence
Quality has no effect
This Spell's Cast Speed cannot be modified

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Quality has no effectPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. gem can only be dropped by defeating Hillock in Ruthless mode.

Achievements

Name	Description
Beginner's Luck	Have a unique item drop in the Twilight Strand.

Soundtrack

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Gallery

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  Concept art

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  The Twilight Strand (Act 1), game version prior 2013

Version history

In the patch notes for older versions of Path of Exile, The Twilight Strand (Act 1) is sometimes referred to as "act1area1".

Version	Changes
3.21.0	The Large Chest on Twilight Strand now contains Prismatic Burst Support for Scion (previously Onslaught Support). The Large Chest on Twilight Strand now contains Momentum Support for Ranger (previously Pierce Support).
3.0.0	Removed the Cruel and Merciless difficulty levels which had waypoints near the Dying Exile. Path of Exile is now a single ten-act playthrough.
2.0.0	Zone levels changed from 1/35/52 to 1/40/56 due to 2.0 zone progression balancing.
1.2.0	Corrupted secret areas can no longer spawn in the first area of an act (the one before the town of the act).
0.9.1	Added a friendly exile in the Twilight Strand.
0.6.13	Added rain and lightning to Twilight Strand.
0.6.8	Changed Twilight Strand use a new random generator.
0.6.2	Twilight strand's difficulty restored to correct values.
0.6.0	Twilight strand substantially decreased in difficulty for demo purposes.
0.5.6	Starter weapon starts near player.
0.5.5	Set default washed-up player position correctly. Added south town entrance to act1area1.
0.5.1	Improved terrain generation yield of initial beach.

External links

• An archived version of the PoE wiki page on this area can be found at pathofexile-archive.fandom.com.