Delirium: Emotions, Shards & Simulacrum

How Delirium works

Walk through the Delirium Mirror to release a rolling fog. Stay inside the fog as it expands or it disappears. Everything you kill raises the rewards; the deeper you go, the stronger the monsters. Magic monsters gain Delirium modifiers, and Rare / Unique monsters manifest Delirium Demons that use their own skills. A depth bar runs from the mirror (start) to the map boss (end); the fog effect points toward the boss. Map bosses in Delirium are always 100% delirious.

Fracturing Mirrors & Shards

Fracturing Mirrors shatter when you approach, spawning Delirium monsters. At set depths, Fracturing Mirror Shards appear in three families (poe2db-confirmed):

• Escalation Shards: add modifiers to rare Delirium monsters, summon harder and more rewarding monsters, or pause the Fog.
• Deceptive Shards: summon Delirium bosses or open an extra Delirious sub-area, the Loathsome Mire.
• Capricious Shards (must be unlocked on the tree): summon a mirrored Map Boss, or make Map Bosses manifest Grand Mirrors.

The Loathsome Mire drops two new Amulet base types that grant two instilled Notables at the cost of -1 suffix or -1 prefix.

Liquid Emotions (the economy)

Liquid Emotions are the exclusive Delirium currency and the reason it prints. They have two uses:

• Instil an amulet with a Notable Passive Skill from the tree (the Decanter of Madness, the Delirium equivalent of anointing). Instilling a Notable you already allocated does not grant it twice.
• Craft a Jewel: like a greater essence, it removes one random modifier and adds a guaranteed one to a Rare Basic Jewel. The tier scales with how delirious it makes you (Diluted Liquid Ire = 7%, up to Concentrated Liquid Isolation = 50%), and the mod depends on the jewel colour (Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald / Diamond).

For a Lich, note Liquid Envy (Skill Mana Costs Converted to Life Cost + Spell Damage) and the max-resist / spell-crit rolls are directly build-relevant. See the jewel crafting on /crafting/reference.

Grand Mirror → Trial of Madness → Simulacrum

Killing a Delirious Map Boss can spawn a Grand Mirror on a nearby Atlas map, which duplicates the map boss. Kill both bosses to unlock the Trial of Madness: fog spreads from a map you choose (containing a locked Simulacrum), starting at 10% deliriousness. Killing Rares and Map Bosses raises the deliriousness of every map in the fog; at 100% the Simulacrum opens, and it can climb to 200%.

The Simulacrum is a 7-wave encounter (Kosis, The Revelation and Omniphobia are the bosses inside). Completing it gives a key to the Delirium pinnacle, The Raven Trickster (Tangmazu), via the Raven's Reflection at the Withered Willow. Difficulty-gated drops: Collapsing Horizon (2+), Strugglescream and the Megalomaniac jewel (4).

The full Delirium Atlas subtree

Exact node text from poe2db. Points come from Deranging Books of Knowledge (2 each) and the maps around the Withered Willow. Node names are spoken lines.

• “I know your childhood fears...”: +25% Liquid Emotions dropped, and 20% chance for them to be Ancient Liquid Emotions.
• “You can't scare me anymore!” (Grand Mirror): unique monsters in fog can drop Potent Emotions (5% by monster type: Humanoid → Melancholy, Beast → Ferocity, Construct → Contempt).
• “These demons are all your own...”: Rare monsters always manifest Delirium Demons (more rewards).

• “You can't just wake up from this one.”: fog dissipates 30% slower; Simulacrums spawn a Shard between waves (Escalating Threats / Apex Predators / Pure Emotions).
• “The mirrors... the mirrors!”: +50% Fracturing Mirrors. “Come on! Face me!”: +25% Unique Boss Shards, slaying Uniques pauses the timer 10s.
• “Get out of my head!”: Magic monsters in fog 25% chance for an extra Delirium modifier.

• Grand Mirror Chance: +5% chance for a Grand Mirror when a boss is slain in fog (small nodes ×16).
• “Are you sure you want to do that?” (Grand Mirror): areas with Grand Mirrors also get a Delirium Mirror.
• Recurring Nightmares (pinnacle): control how fog spreads from Grand Mirrors (up to +4 maps).
• “Is this about me... or you?” (Simulacrum): Simulacrum Splinters drop from Delirium monsters in level 75+ maps; Megalomaniac jewels 10% chance to allocate 3 notables.

Juicing: exact tablet text

Delirium Tablets add a Mirror; the suffixes (poe2db) extend the fog and reward window. Their effect scales with the number used (full at 3):

• of Madness: +15-30% Deliriousness (more reward, more danger). of Persecution: Delirium monsters +15-30% Pack Size.
• of Eternity / of the Unending: fog lasts +6-12s / dissipates 20-30% slower (more time in fog).
• of Mirrors / of Shattering: +15-30% Fracturing Mirrors / +12-26% Mirror Shards.
• of Phobia: encounters +15-30% likely to spawn Unique Bosses. of Freeze Time: slaying Rares pauses the timer 3-5s.
• Unique Clear Skies: fog never dissipates (with -10 to +10% Deliriousness). The dedicated Delirium farming tablet.

The 200% Delirium splinter farm

A Simulacrum-splinter and raw-currency farm that two creators cover in detail (ronarray and DEADRABB1T). ronarray reports ~80-100 div/hr; DEADRABB1T logged 90 divines of Simulacrums over 15 maps (about 60 profit after ~5-div tablets) on top of ~2-3 raw divines per map. You mostly drop raw divines and Simulacrums, which sell instantly.

You need a City biome (they usually sit next to Citadels). Run basic maps with a basic Delirium tablet until a Grand Mirror spawns on a nearby map. Clear that map, kill its boss, then click the Grand Mirror to choose which Atlas area gets the Delirium fog, and point it at your city cluster. Clear a few maps around the city (not the city itself) to raise it from 10% to 200%. Only then slot your proper tablets and farm the City maps (4 slots) at 200% delirious.

• Master: Jado (unexpected missions, so corrupt your waystones for +1 modifier; partial translations).
• Atlas: biome masteries for your city biomes (Desert / Grass for Effectiveness, Forest for more rares), the Delirium tablet-bonus nodes, and the fog-spreads-to-+4-maps node. Take Effectiveness over 6% Pack Size.
• Tablets: the three modifiers that matter are increased Fracturing Mirrors, Simulacrum Splinter stack size and increased Rare Monsters (rares drop the splinters). A tablet with all three runs ~20 div; a cheaper single-good-mod tablet is ~1-5 div and still works, since Rare Monsters can come from the waystone instead.

Aim for high Monster Rarity: more rares means more splinters, which means more Simulacrums. To fit three Omens on one map, roll a waystone to exactly five modifiers (Orb of Alchemy to 4, then one Exalt to 5, keeping a slot open), then use Chaotic Effectiveness + Chaotic Rarity + Chaotic Quantity together (a full 6-mod waystone blocks them). Finish with a Chaos Orb and Vaal-corrupt it: corrupting is mandatory here because your tree runs Shadow of Undeath, which multiplies the loot. A good result is ~62% Monster Rarity and ~26% Pack Size. The bulk method (DEADRABB1T): Exalt and corrupt a whole batch of waystones, then paste a “Monster Rarity at least 60%” regex into your map-stash search to pull out the good ones.

Clear every monster: all of them drop Simulacrum Splinters. A fast build does a map in 5-8 minutes (~10 maps/hr). A fully juiced 200% map yields 500-1000 splinters plus 1-2 raw divines; a lighter setup gives 100-300. Either sell the Simulacrums (currently ~2.7 div each) or run them yourself, and keep any Voices jewels (a lasting chase item, ~700 div).

The farming loop

1. Atlas: “I know your childhood fears...” and the demon / shard density nodes, then Grand Mirror chance and the Simulacrum nodes once you can clear deep fog.
2. Tablets: 2-3 Delirium tablets (of Madness + of Persecution + fog-duration), or the unique Clear Skies for a permanent-fog farm. Add 1 Ritual tablet to revive the dense packs.
3. In map: break the mirror, push toward the boss along the fog, break Shards for their encounters, and do not stall (the fog and demons punish it).
4. Bank Liquid Emotions, Potent Emotions, Simulacrum Splinters and any Megalomaniac / Voices jewels.
5. Craft and sell: instil amulets at the Decanter of Madness, roll jewels with Liquid / Potent Emotions, and sell the Emotions and jewels.

• Liquid and Potent Emotions (the jewel-crafting economy) and Ancient Emotions for Time-Lost Jewels.
• Simulacrum Splinters and Simulacrums; Megalomaniac and Voices jewels; the difficulty-gated uniques.