0.4 · Fate of the Vaal

Room families offer different encounters and rewards. The Armoury family supplies equipment, while Commanders strengthen rare monsters and can award medallions. WDguide advice: decide what you want from a Temple before spending placements.

Guardhouse, Barracks and Hall of War are successive Garrison tiers. Their recorded monster-pack bonuses increase from 8% to 12% to 16%; later tiers also strengthen normal monsters. An upgrade is not only a larger reward label.

A Commander or Armoury can upgrade a Garrison. Conversely, Commander upgrades depend on multiple Garrison neighbours. WDguide advice: think in connected groups of rooms rather than filling every space with an unrelated reward.

The Transcension Device replaces arms or legs with mechanical upgrades carrying modifiers. Those upgrades are lost on death. Their temporary nature distinguishes them from a permanent passive allocation.

Juatalotli’s Triumph changes modifiers on a Corrupted Vaal Unique. The Corrupted Precursor Machine alters a Tablet. Both are specialised transformations: identify the required item before treating a room as useful for your character.

It can add a second enchantment to an already Corrupted item, with a 50% chance of destroying that item.

Kishara’s Acquisition can recover socketed augments by sacrificing the equipment. Orb of Extraction is associated with this crafting route.

Core Destabiliser changes a Soul Core unpredictably and can destroy it. Inspect the item before committing.

Defeating the Architect opens further special crafting rewards and the route towards Atziri.

The league’s pinnacle encounter features Atziri at the height of the Vaal empire.

The Last of the Druids also introduced the Druid, its Oracle and Shaman Ascendancies, and animal-form gameplay using Talismans.

Skills granted by Ascendancy allocations become active when the relevant passive is allocated. Treat the allocated source as part of the setup rather than assuming a separate purchased gem supplies it.

Abyss encounters were added to campaign areas from Act 2 and endgame. Earlier league access and crafting instructions need their version checked; Preserved Vertebrae stopped dropping and the Well of Souls quest changed.

WDguide advice: record the version alongside a valuable crafting target. An old room recommendation can describe a historical reward or access route even when the underlying item still exists.

WDguide advice: preserve a connected route to the room you want before spending the next placement.

Room tiers alter encounters as well as rewards. Check the room description and neighbouring upgrades before entering.

Special Temple devices have different inputs and risks. Keep valuable equipment out until you understand that device’s stated outcome.

Guardhouse, Barracks and Hall of War form a Garrison upgrade family. Their monster-pack bonuses rise with room tier, so upgrading changes the encounter as well as its rewards.

Commander is one of the listed neighbours that can upgrade a Garrison. Commander rooms have their own upgrade conditions. WDguide advice: check both rooms before committing a placement; one useful adjacency does not satisfy every upgrade.

Armoury is also listed as an upgrade neighbour for Garrison. WDguide example: if your planned path already reaches the Garrison, compare a compatible neighbouring room with an unrelated reward room. Preserve access before chasing a tier increase.

The Bronzeworks and Chamber of Iron descriptions each require a Generator. Bronzeworks offers equipment-quality improvement; Chamber of Iron can add an augment socket. A room’s presence alone does not fulfil its power requirement.

WDguide example: a room that improves quality solves a different problem from one that adds a socket. Read its exact workbench text, then inspect the item. Do not spend placements based only on the room artwork.

WDguide advice: before sacrificing or corrupting equipment at a special device, confirm that you have a usable replacement. Save the next build stage separately so an ambitious crafting plan does not hide the setup you can currently play.

Read the recorded item text and irreversible outcomes before committing valuable equipment.

Read the recorded item text and irreversible outcomes before committing valuable equipment.

Read the recorded item text and irreversible outcomes before committing valuable equipment.