Pinnacle encounter

Difficulty

Tooltip

Difficulty causes monsters to have increased damage and toughness, as well as making them grant more experience and drop better items.

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

List of pinnacle encounters

• Breach - Xesht, We Who Are One, accessed through a File:Breachstone inventory icon.pngBreachstoneBreachstoneTravel to the Breach Domain by using this item at The Real Gate. Can only be used once.File:Breachstone inventory icon.png.
• Expedition - Olroth, randomly accessed through Logbooks.
• Ritual - The King in the Mists, accessed with File:An Audience with the King inventory icon.pngAn Audience with the KingAn Audience with the KingOn the edge of existence, he watches with ire.Travel to the Crux of Nothingness by using this item at The Realm Gate. Can only be used once.File:An Audience with the King inventory icon.png.
• Delirium - Simulacrum, accessed through a File:Simulacrum inventory icon.pngSimulacrumSimulacrumFile:Simulacrum inventory icon.png.