The Gauntlet and its Essence Stones are the most important components of your Atlas Fallen character build. The Essence Stones are literally the active and passive skills that can be activated and swapped all the time, and they can either make your life easier or harder depending on how you choose them.
It can be quite difficult to set the right Essence Stone in your Gauntlet when there are over 100 options to choose from. Therefore, we searched for the strongest Essence Stones that any player could use. Find out more in our article.
Atlas Fallen’s Top Essence Stones
The choice of Essence Stones is crucial in this game since much of your experience depends on how you dodge, disable, and attack your enemies. There are a lot of Wraiths and other monsters in the game, and it’s best to have a reliable damage output to deal with anyone that crosses your path, rather than hoping to RNG that you won’t die.
You can find essence stones all over the map and while some of them will give you new active skills, others will boost your existing moves. You will need a bit of crafting materials, as well as an essential Essence Core to make higher-level Essence Stones.
We’ve compiled a list of the best Essence Stones in Atlas Fallen!
Dazzling Impact
With Dazzling Impact, you can perform an AoE hammer attack that interrupts enemies and leaves them vulnerable. Whenever you’re getting overrun and need to get a lot of enemies off your back, this is a good move.
In Caladrias: The Forbidden Lands, you can find an NPC Researcher who can give you Dazzling Impact. This Essence Stone can be made from 1x Essence Core, 1x Meadow Cinth, and 2x Coppery Ore, according to the recipe he gives you.
Piercing Parry
This Tier 2 Essence Stone is a Tricks Stone that adds some interesting passive powers to your Gauntlet. After parrying successfully, you can freely attack your enemies for a few seconds. They will be defenceless for a few seconds and even elites will be rendered defenseless.
Look for a gate leading to Sunken City in Bastengar’s Underground to get the Piercing Parry Essence Stone. If you interact with the NPC Knight standing there, you’ll receive the Essence Stone (no crafting required!).
Unstable Generation
Some consider Unstable Generation to be the best Essence Stone in the game. This Tier 1 passive stone is in third place because it’s kind of a double-edged sword. This increases your Momentum generation speed, allowing you to wreak havoc on Wraiths and other monsters. You should only use this Essence Stone if you are confident in your dodges and attacking combo skills, since it will decrease your Momentum if you get hit.
You can get the Unstable Generation by engaging Fury Scimmur at Watchtower. Multiple enemies will surround and attack you, making this a difficult fight. You will discover the Unstable Generation in the Watchtower after defeating all of them, including the Fury Scimmur.
Ruthless Slayer
If you know how to play Ruthless Slayer correctly, it can be the best damage-boosting ally you can have. When you kill an enemy or destroy the body parts of an enemy, you will receive a damage buff lasting for 12 seconds.
In other words, if you encounter a group of monsters with different levels, you need to focus on the weakest one first and kill it as soon as possible. Once you have the damage boost, go after the big guy. In order to reset this damage increase once the buff wears off, you can look for a weak body part of a bigger enemy or a small enemy that you can defeat quickly.
In the City of the Sun, you can find a chest that contains both Formulas for Ruthless Slayer and Ruthless Generation. 1 Essence Core, 1 Fiery Leave, and 1 Silver Ore are required to make the Ruthless Slayer Stone Essence.
Evasive Burst
The Tier 1 Evasive Burst Essence Stone is considered to be one of the ultimate Essence Stones in Atlas Fallen. This is a great AoE tool for clearing out enemies quickly. With this skill, you can send out a powerful explosion or wave around yourself after evading or using Air Dash. The radius and damage of the Stone increase as you upgrade it.
It’s as simple as evading an Air Dash around a mob of monsters without even touching them, and watching as their HP diminishes. Caladria’s North part, west of the walls of the ruined city, is where you can find Evasive Burst. There’s a wooden scaffolding leaning against a mountain where you can find it.
