Tormented Spirit

Tormented Cannibal

Tormented Spirits are the spirits of tormented criminals that yield their ill-gotten gains when slain. Eager to protect their trove, these spirits flee when encountered and imbue nearby monsters with dangerous powers, which improves their item drops. It's also possible for spirits to possess rare and unique enemies, greatly increasing their threat (and value) to treasure-seeking exiles.

The various spirits have differing modifiers that they themselves possess as a spirit, in addition to effects that they bestow on normal and magic monsters that they touch, as well as a powerful modifier that they grant to any rare or unique mobs that they possess (a single monster can be possessed by more than one spirit). Any mob that is bestowed or possessed by a spirit gains a modifier (Spirit's Touch/Grip) based on the spirit that bestowed them, in addition to some slight increase to movement, attack and cast speeds, as well as significantly increased IIQ and IIR. Modifiers are shown in green.

If a tormented spirit is killed, it is guaranteed to drop one rare item. If a rare monster is possessed, at least two rare items are guaranteed to drop, and if a unique monster is possessed, at least three rare items are guaranteed to drop. A Tormented Spirit that is not killed and does not find a monster to possess will eventually break its bonds and vanish, leaving no items. Spirits that do possess a monster will not vanish.

Variations

Tormented Spirit	Spirit Modifiers	Spirit's Touch	Spirit's Grip
Shavronne	N/A	N/A	Cast Storm Call and Storm Bearers.
Alchemist	N/A	N/A	N/A
Arsonist	Periodically fires a series of three novas that deal fire damage	Gains extra fire damage and fire resistance.	Monster gains ability to cast a large firestorm that leaves burning ground over a wide area
Aurora Cultist	Leaves ice trail akin to Arctic Armor	Monsters deal additional cold damage	Casts Vaal Cold Snap
Betrayer			Guaranteed veiled rare on death
Blasphemer	Hexfont	Random curse on hit	Random curse on hit, enemies can have 2 curses
Cannibal	Devours a nearby corpse to heal	Gains Corpse Devouring	Gains Corpse Devouring; periodically summons Cannibal's Devoted as adds (Cannibal from act 1)
Charlatan	Has Physical Degeneration Aura. Has Allies regenerate life aura.	All affected monsters apply a physical bleed effect on hit. Status icon is the same as the puncture icon	Causes puncture on hit. Summons Purged Fluids. (Mini Blood Elemental from Lunaris 3)
Cutthroat	Has 'Allies Deal Substantial Extra Physical Damage' aura	Monsters gain increased Attack, Cast and Movement speed	Gained 'Allies Deal Substantial Extra Physical Damage' and 'Allies Move and Attack Faster' auras
Embezzler	Embezzler Aura: Enemies recover Life, Mana and Energy Shield 50% slower. Summons Embezzler's Offers (Aurate Warriors) and Embezzler's Own (Aurate Archers)	Periodically summons Embezzler's Offers and Embezzler's Own.	Drops a large amount of currency orbs on death
Illegal Fisherman	Very rare	Nothing special seems to happen	Nothing special seems to happen
Forger	Monsters seem to respawn as apparitions (akin to Soul Conduit)	Monsters gain Spell Echo (multistrike pending test?)	Periodically summons corpses and raises specters
Graverobber	Leaves sandstorms		Guaranteed league-specific unique on death
Martyr	Gains Frenzy Charges, Casts Detonate Dead	Explodes on Death dealing Fire damage.	Periodically summons Martyr's Devoted as adds (similar to Alira's Martyr from Western Forest)
Miner		Frenzy as Damaged
Mutilator	Casts a Spectral Throw?	Spawns Animated Weapon on death	Casts Vaal Spectral Throw
Necromancer	Summons Raging Spirits	Summons skeleton warrior on death	Summons several skeleton warriors
Poisoner	Leaves a trail of chaos damage similar to Arctic Armor	Monsters Poison on hit, similar to the map mod	Periodically releases a large nova of peircing bolts that do chaos damage
Rogue	Increased movement speed, reduced Character Size	Quick, 20% reduced Character Size, 33% chance to Dodge Attacks	Quick, 20% reduced Character Size, 33% chance to Dodge Attacks, 33% chance to Dodge Spell Damage
Seditionist	N/A	Summons Tornadoes. Monster Gain "Silence curses" on hit	Guaranteed magic or rare map upon death. Drops around 10-15 scrolls (portal/wisdom)
Smuggler	Has 'Allies have increased energy shield' aura	N/A	Guaranteed unique on death
Spy	Leaves smoke cloud trail	Gains Blind on hit	Releases smoke clouds over a large area
Storm Cultist	Has a small "Enemies are Shocked" aura around the ghost, resists lightning	Grants lightning resistance	Spawns areas of shocking ground nearby?
Thief	Enemies cannot leech from you.	Life and mana leech	Ends active potion effects and removes mana on hit. Increased jewelry drops
Thug	Grants increased life and character size.	Grants increased life and character size.	Grants increased life, character size, and area of effect.
Vaal Cultist	Summons Vaal Constructs	Additional elemental damage.	Randomly uses Vaal skills. Chance to drop a Vaal Fragment or Gem on death.
Warlord	Casts Warlords Mark	Reduced Physical Damage taken	Generates Endurance charges. Seems to grant endurance charges to allies as well.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.7.0	Added 3 new Tormented Spirits, found via Sextants.
2.4.0	Tormented Spirits can now only touch up to 50 monsters each. The technical issues caused by "vacuum farming" are causing too many problems for us and we have unfortunately had to disable this playstyle. This will improve server performance for everyone. Tormented Spirits can no longer possess Vagan, because sometimes he cannot die. Fixed a bug where Tormented Spirits could still drop items when they expire or when they possess monsters (without being directly killed).
2.3.0	Tormented Spirits now more strongly want to possess monsters rather than flee from you.
2.0.4	Monsters can no longer be touched by multiple Tormented Spirits. Rare and Unique monsters can still be possessed by more than one Spirit.
2.0.2c	Monsters that are touched by Tormented Spirits now have smaller bonuses to item quantity and rarity. Monsters that are possessed by Tormented Spirits now have larger bonuses to item quantity and rarity.
2.0.2	Tormented Spirits now only flee from Players (as opposed to also fleeing from their minions).
2.0.0	Tormented Spirits have been added to the core game. The Torment spirit Tormented Martyr has been made significantly less dangerous.
1.3.1	Tormented Spirits are now substantially more inclined to possess a monster when one is in range.
1.3.0h	Tormented Spirits are now more common in end-game maps.
1.3.0	Introduced to the game.