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How To Unlock The Wildwood’s Secrets In POE 3.23 Affliction League?

Dec 13, 2023

Many pointed out that the Wisps colors in POE 3.23 didn’t match their effects accurately. It’s worth noting that the official reveal video and the official reveal page that GGG posted had two different answers. So, here are the correct colors. 

POE 3.23 Wisps Colors

Just hover over the Wisp while you’re in the woods, and it’ll display the respective effects.

Wildwood Ascenancies Swapping & Unlocking

Now, let’s talk about the Wildwood ascendancies. 

I enjoyed the mechanic enough to spend a considerable amount of time interacting with it during the campaign, encountering as Azmeri Wanderers as early as Act 2.

There’s no guaranteed trick to finding them every time. You just have to follow the associated color wisps and hope you stumble upon them. When you find your first one, consider ascending with them. If you later find one that you want, you can change by selecting change specialization

Also worth noting, if you switch back and forth, your unlocked ascendency points remain. But if you’re midest, your progress on the quest is reset.

It’s good to see they don’t let you change specialization if you have backpack POE Items or charms, ensuring that you won’t lose them.

Progress on Wildwood ascendancies is per character and not per account. You can work on only 1 wanderer’s mission at a time, and it’s the one you’re ascended under. The first 2 points you’re awarded just for finding them and then they give you a mob kill mission.

How To Unlock The Wildwood's Secrets In POE 3.23 Affliction League?

Zone Reset Trick

These missions take time but found a trick. For example, with the Primal list, I wanted to unlock a slot for my charms. I reset Crystal Veins and followed the blue wisps corresponding to her.

You can do this with any zone within your campaign level. These first quests seem to be a pain in the ass, but only because Path of Exile is not known for giving you time to check the nameplate on monsters.

But if you follow that corresponding wisp trail, the right monsters seem to spawn along. Just reset the zone, go in the hole, do a small circle to check for a wisp trail and you’re off. If you’re already on maps, you can still do this reset trick on reliquary.

The next mission they give you is a mini boss fight and, much like everything else with these guys, it seems completely random. Just follow the wisps. I don’t know how much you can do in the campaign zones as I’m currently searching for The King In The Mists for the final mission.

The data mine from PoEDB shows a level 68 version, so I assume it’ll probably be white maps at the earliest, but maybe you can get them in the campaign.

Buy The Charms/Tinctures/Corpses 

During the resets, if you keep encountering The Wanderers, even if they aren’t the one that you’re ascended under, check out their inventory. It is possible to run into more than one of The Wanderers in 1 run.

Since you’re setting, you don’t really care about the monsters being dusted in the zone, so use the wisps you gain to buy the items in their shop. 

Charms can be vendored 5:1 to get a new one. But remember that the new one will be the lowest high level out of the ones you’ve vender. Therefore, restricting the mods they can have. 

With the majority of the league being Deadeyes and Pathfinders, look for Withered effect, Onslaught effect, etc. +1 projectile will be a prefix on a Charm and looks like it has a minimum zone level of 81. If you find it, you’re in for some Divine Orbs.

This strategy isn’t restricted to Charms, but the Tinctures. These might be a little more questionable, but you do want synergistic mods, Culling Strike being a nice one to have. 

If all of us fail, buy whatever ones and just throw them in a 2 to 5 sale tab.

The corpses might not fetch as much as the projectile charm, but snag any perfect corpses as these when spectered grant auras.

The Nameless Seer

My early favorite discovery was the Nameless Seer

The guy’s just sitting there in the darkness. And when you click him, he opens a window filled with uniques. I ended up with a tabby super early.

Wildwood Shrines & Altars

In addition to your standard shrines, there are special Wildwood ones that gain things like 200% increased XP for 5 minutes.

These are very different from the altars, as you don’t know what you’re getting into until you’ve accepted it and as such doesn’t seem to have downsides other than a time limit.

Speaking of Wildwood altars, these will have downsides, much like the Eldritch ones, to offset the upsides. Keep in mind the effects of these altars and shrines will persist into your map.

If you were fighting a mob and frantically clicking and don’t know what you agreed to, you can see at the top where your buff bar is. 

Kill Everything Before Talking

I’m sure it’s common sense to make sure the area is completely clear of monsters before you start clicking things, but too many times I would be at the Warlock dude’s shop only to have a cultist spellcaster throwing toads over the wall. 

TotA Uniques & Omens

Lastly, I want to talk about Trials of the Ancestor’s items staying while the mechanic itself was gone. It looks like Omen, Hinekora’s Locks and the TotA unique items themselves drop in the woods or at the least from dusted monsters. 

Those of you lucky enough to drop a Hinekora’s Lock should treat this like Divine Orbs and try to hang on to it for at least a week when the meta crafters need them. That’s when you’ll get the best return.

Don’t Give In To FOMO

While I get the mechanic is fun, and the FOMO of dusting the monsters is real. 

You have to keep in mind that Mark, AKA Neon, the mastermind behind the endgame bosses that farm so many of us, was crucial in designing this league. 

So even with the nerfs to the mob, the fact that the dusting effect will stack with other content will definitely result in some tough maps. 

If you’re having issues killing monsters in the woods, I wouldn’t suggest continuing with the mechanic. This will hinder your completion and frustrate you. Just farm up the POE Currency, gear up, and come back to it, as we all know that with leagues like this, the rewards are better in red maps.

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