The Elder

For higher level version of the Elder, see Uber Elder.

The Elder
The Elder
Level(s)	83
Location(s)	Absence of Value and Meaning
Quest(s)	The Memory Eater (legacy) The Eldritch Decay (legacy)
Health	46 612 147
Damage	5740
ApS	1.85
Resistance(s)	50% Fire 50% Cold 50% Lightning 30% Chaos
Modifier(s)	66% Less Curse Effectiveness Cannot Be Fully Slowed Immune To Knockback

A creature of malignant madness, born of that oblivion from before time itself began. Once only an abstract expression, the Elder was given physical form. The Elder came here out of hunger. Preferring victims of a younger flesh, it became the bogeyman, dragging our children off into the night, casting them into its realm of shadow and feasting upon their nightmares undisturbed, for it was imagination that truly satiated it.

Valdo Caeserius

The Elder is a boss that is invading the Atlas of Worlds. He is the main antagonist of the War for the Atlas expansion. According to the lore of the Conquerors of the Atlas expansion, the Elder was slain by the Elderslayers led by Sirus, Awakener of Worlds, and was removed from the Atlas. Players can still fight the Elder using the map fragments set, and do not need to chase the Elder and Shaper across the Atlas anymore. These map fragments can be obtained by defeating the Elder Guardians.

The Elder is considered to be the easiest of the major Atlas bosses, and players with a high damage output can simply facetank the Elder and defeat him.

The Elder can drop a 2-mod that can be valued anywhere from a few to dozens of if it has 2 mods that work extremely well together. Such items are highly valuable because they are unique, cannot be duplicated or replicated, and cannot be crafted by players. A more valuable version can drop from The Uber Elder, which can drop a 3-mod version of the eye.

Defeating the Elder is guaranteed to drop a map fragment required for the Uber Elder encounter, either or . The other 2 fragments are dropped by The Shaper.

Items influenced by the Elder have a purple icon on its header and have unique Elder modifiers. Elder influenced items can drop from the Elder boss as well as from monsters killed in maps influenced by the Elder.

The "Elderslayers" during War for the Atlas and Betrayal expansions, were the players themselves. However, this was re-canon (i.e. the storyline was changed by the dev) due to the Conquerors of the Atlas expansion.

Entry

Players must use the following fragments in their map device to fight The Elder. These fragments drop from the Elder Guardians, and they can also be traded amongst players.

The arena is called Absence of Value and Meaning.

Recommendations

The following is recommended:

• At least 1 million damage per second (rolling over your main attack ability should show 100K+, because Path of Exile cannot calculate DPS properly)
• A method to increase damage against unique enemies (such as Assassin's Mark for critical strike-based builds)
• Capped elemental resistances (fire, cold and lightning resistance at 75%)
• At least 6,000 Effective hit points (Life pool)
• At least 20% block or evade chance, or Mana before Life defenses

Attacks

Image	Attack	Phase	Details
	Default Melee Attack	1, 3	The Elder strikes the player, dealing Physical Damage.
	Ice Spears 1	1, 3	The Elder fires multiple sets of 2 icy projectiles Each projectile that hits the player deals 5006 to 7509 Cold Damage
	Ice Spears 2	1, 3	The Elder fires 4 icy projectiles at once Each projectile that hits the player deals 5006 to 7509 Cold Damage
	Ice Spears 3	1, 3	The Elder charges up an attack and then fires 5+ icy projectiles Each projectile that hits the player deals 6554 to 9832 Cold Damage
	Siphon / Super Siphon	1	The regular Siphon attack: The Elder dives into the ground and reappears, siphoning energy out of the player within a 180 degree cone around himself Players must stay out of the range of the siphon to escape the attack If players are within the siphoning attack area: Deals 1433 Physical Damage per second as debuff Fed Upon Players have 60% less Action speed while inside as debuff Sprouting Madness, greatly slowing their movement All damage dealt to the player is gained as the Elder's energy shield The Super Siphon attack has these additional mechanics: The Elder will freeze you in place by applying debuff Crystalised Fear It guarantees him a second's worth of physical damage over time from debuff Fed Upon It ends when The Shaper slams the Elder and frees you from the Elder's grasp
	Tentacle Slam	1, 3	The Elder spawns several tentacles around the player that slam the ground to deal Area of effect Physical damage This attack also leaves visual ground effect for a short time Each tentacle that hits the player deals 130% of Damage
	Expanding Nova / Ring of Death	1, 3	The Elder casts a ring around him, creating a field that gradually grows larger over time After several seconds, it explodes dealing massive physical damage, enough to kill most builds Players must stay within the inner ring until the attack ends in order to survive If players are outside the ring, it deals 5420 to 6625 Physical Damage when it explodes It is the only one-shot mechanic
	Rising Slam	1	The Elder spins around, launching multiple cold damage projectiles that impact in a ring around him, then teleports away. He will then teleport to your location and do a slam that deals heavy cold damage.
	Multi Expanding Nova	3	The Elder creates multiple expanding nova, with an inner ring and outer ring Players must stay within the inner ring of any nova in order to survive
	Pulse Nova	3	The Elder creates a powerful pulse, dealing damage to the player
	Zana's Bubble	3	After the Elder has been defeated in Phase 3, he will create one last powerful shockwave before dying Zana appears in the lower-right of the arena to save the player by creating a bubble shield Players must rush into the bubble created by Zana in order to survive Failing to reach the bubble will instantly kill the player once the elder detonates the shockwave

Strategy

Phase 1

The Elder uses the following moves from the start:

• Default Attack
• Ice Spears
• Expanding Nova / Ring of Death
• Siphon

During the fight, Madness Propagators will spawn, which fires slow projectile shots and leaves a patch of eldritch decay permanently if it is left alive long enough, which deals physical damage over time while standing over them. Killing them quickly is important so that the arena does not become overwhelmed by them.

As the Elder's life gets lower, he will start using more attacks:

• Tentacle Whip
• Rising Slam
• Super Siphon

Phase 2 - Captured Phase

The Captured Phase, where the Elder is captured by the Shaper (right) and the Shaper is channeling energy from the restraint (left)

When the Elder is brought down to 25% life, the Shaper will capture him and magically bind him at the center of the arena. He will be invulnerable and the Shaper must channel to fully form all four restraints. You must protect him while the Elder spawns Null Portals that spawn multiple Madness Propagators that can attack the Shaper. Each restraint takes 35 seconds to finish. The Elder will also attack with Tentacle Whip later in the phase. The Shaper performs his restraints in the following order: left side, right side, bottom, top so keep that in mind when the Shaper finishes his current restraint.

If the Shaper's life is brought down to 0, he will retreat and the Elder will be freed, and you must finish the rest of the fight in his first phase.

One recommendation for protecting the Shaper is to use in front of him to prevent attacks from reaching him. Another one is to not focus on the null portals because they simply spawn back so it is advisable to simply focus on the monsters conjured by the null portals instead. Sulphur flasks can also heal the Shaper. Make sure you have enough clear speed or it will be very hard to successfully do this phase of the fight.

Phase 3 - Unstable Phase

Once all four restraints have formed, the Shaper will leave and the Elder is vulnerable once again. He will continue to spawn Null Portals and attack with:

• Ice Spear
• Tentacle Whip
• Expanding Nova / Ring of Death
• Pulse Nova - The Elder will periodically release a large dark pulse that deals physical damage and covers the entire arena.

When the Elder is killed in this phase, he will charge up a final lethal blast. Zana will appear at the bottom right side of the arena with a protective bubble. Retreat to Zana before he uses his last attack.

The Elder must be killed in this phase in order for to possibly drop.

The Uncharted Realms Atlas passive skill tree that enhances drops from The Shaper, The Elder and from their respective guardians.

Items found from this monster

The dropped is a 2 mods variant. The Shaper must have survived throughout the entire boss fight in order to trigger the Unstable phase, and only successfully finishing the Unstable phase can have a chance to drop a Watcher's Eye.

It can also drop , even if The Maven is not present and observing the fight.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.9.0	The Elder and Shaper were defeated and are no longer part of the atlas. They can still be accessed with new Fragment sets. White, Yellow and Red Elder are now a single encounter.
3.2.0	The Elder's Unstable phase is now more difficult, and can drop more Elder items if successfully completed. This is now the only way to obtain the unique jewel.
3.1.0	Introduced to the game.

See also

• Uber Elder - Dual boss fight along with the Shaper
• Book of Memories - Lore that provides the backstory of Valdo Caeserius's quest against the Elder