Delirium
Free Elder Madox, kill bosses in the fog, spread it with a Grand Mirror, survive the Simulacrum, and face the Raven Trickster through the mirror at the Withered Willow.
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The way to the Raven Trickster
Six stops, in order. Tick each one when you've done it in game.
0 of 6 done in game.
- Stop 1
Strange Reflection
Free Elder Madox from a Delirium Mirror in a map. He sends you to the Withered Willow.
The quest is in your log and Madox has sent you to the Willow.Taught in Delirium fog and Deliriousness
- Stop 2
A boss in the fog
Run the Willow's fogged maps and kill a map boss inside the fog.
You've killed a map boss inside Delirium fog.Taught in Delirium fog and Deliriousness
- Stop 3
The Grand Mirror
It can appear on a nearby map. Kill the boss and its reflection, then use the Mirror.
The Grand Mirror's fog is on your Atlas.Taught in Grand Mirrors and the Trial of Madness
- Stop 4
Trial of Madness
Kill Rares, Uniques and bosses in the fogged maps until they reach 100% Deliriousness.
A fogged map has turned into a Simulacrum.Taught in Grand Mirrors and the Trial of Madness
- Stop 5
The Simulacrum
Clear 7 waves, from 100% to 200% Deliriousness.
Wave 7 is cleared and Raven's Reflection is in your inventory.Taught in The Simulacrum
- Stop 6
The Raven Trickster
Put Raven's Reflection into the mirror at the Withered Willow and beat Tangmazu.
Strange Reflection is complete.Taught in Liquid Emotions and the Raven Trickster
Ten maps, packs capped
A Grand Mirror now spreads the fog to exactly 10 maps. Delirium monster packs stop growing past 100% Deliriousness, though monsters still get harder.
From GGG's 0.5.5 patch notes.
The Simulacrum comes at 100%
Since 0.5.3 it appears when the fog bank reaches 100%, not when the fog first spreads. Its 7 waves run from 100% to 200%.
The scaling didn't work at all before 0.5.3.
Getting back in
With the Is this about me... or you? passive, Splinters drop in level 75 and higher maps. 300 make a Simulacrum, used on a map that's already at 100% Deliriousness.
The item is called a Simulacrum. It turns the map into the Simulacrum of Delusion.
Lessons
- Delirium fog and DeliriousnessElder Madox, the Mirror, Deliriousness, shards and Tablets.Up next
- Grand Mirrors and the Trial of MadnessThe boss and its reflection, 10 fogged maps, and climbing to 100%.Open
- The SimulacrumSeven waves, shards between them, the key, and Splinters.Open
- Liquid Emotions and the Raven TricksterJewels, instilling, and the fight through the mirror.Open
- The FogPass it to light up the test node on the map.After the lessons
Liquid Emotions
Delirium monsters drop them, and map bosses drop the Potent ones.
- Jewels: one Emotion on a Rare jewel removes a random modifier and adds a guaranteed one, like a greater essence.
- Amulets: three Emotions instill a notable passive at the bench by the Withered Willow. Their order matters, and a new instill replaces the old.
- Potent and Ancient: Potent Emotions come from map bosses. Ancient ones need an Atlas passive and only work on Time-Lost jewels.
- Combining: three lower Emotions make one higher at the Reforging Bench.
Farm it
Delirium Tablet starterThe Withered Willow's maps with one Delirium Tablet: stay in the fog, kill the boss inside it, and finish the quest for its Atlas points. Our suggestion, not tested in game.BudgetOpen the loopDelirium boss rushCity maps with a Splinter Tablet, a unique-boss Tablet and an Overseer Tablet, rushing bosses for Emotions. By Argie Maputi at gamesfuze (guide, June 2026, patch 0.5). Written before 0.5.5's fog changes.MidRead the guideSimulacrum and key farmThe pinnacle path on the Atlas tree plus Splinters, a fog bank kept at 100% or more, and Simulacrums for Raven's Reflection. Our suggestion, not tested in game.AdvancedOpen the loopMore Delirium strategies will show up here as creators publish them.
Read “Grand Mirrors and the Trial of Madness” as text
Earn a Grand Mirror
Kill a map boss inside the fog and there's a chance a Grand Mirror appears on a nearby map. Not the same map: a nearby one. The Grand Mirror Chance passives raise the odds.
If it goes wrong: Some notes say the Mirror manifests where the boss dies. It's on a nearby map, and it isn't guaranteed.
Beat the boss and its reflection
In the Grand Mirror's map, the boss is duplicated by its own reflection, so you fight two at once. Once both are dead, use the Grand Mirror.
Spread the fog
Pick a map on your Atlas. The fog covers it and the maps around it: since 0.5.5, exactly 10 maps. The fog never lands on maps that give Atlas points.
The wiki says your first Grand Mirror, the quest one, can only reach the mountain map nearby.
Push the Trial of Madness
Those fogged maps form one group. GGG calls it the Trial of Madness, and the game's tooltips call it a fog bank. Every fogged map starts at 10% Deliriousness, and killing Rares, Uniques and map bosses in any of them raises all of them together, up to 200%.
Since 0.5.5, monster packs stop growing past 100%. Monsters still get harder.
Reach 100%
When the bank reaches 100%, one of its maps turns into a Simulacrum on your Atlas. Since 0.5.3 that's the rule; it used to happen as soon as the fog spread. Lesson 3 covers what's inside.
- Always the Same.: The Recurring Nightmares keystone: the fog spreads to 4 more maps. Pick it when: You want a bigger, predictable bank. The cost: More maps to clear before 100%.
- The other option: Since 0.5.5, maps in the fog get +30% more Deliriousness. Pick it when: You want to reach 100% and 200% faster. The cost: Harder monsters sooner.