Delirium Map gave no Delirium Rewards

So I just ran a map that I put levels of delirium on. I had delirium fog and delirium enemies, but no meter at the bottom of the screen and received no delirium rewards on map completion.

I haven't run Delirious maps in POE2, but this was always a point of confusion in POE1 and I understand that it behaves similarly in POE2.


When starting a Delirium encounter by entering a mirror, there is normally a spreading fog with a timer and you accumulate rewards over time that are dropped at the end of the encounter (when the timer runs out or you manually end the delirium).

However, when you apply a permanent Delirium to a map using Distilled Emotions there is no timer or reward counter. Rewards from the Delirium drop as you kill monsters and not at the end of the encounter. This often causes confusion, since people were trained by the mechanic to expect drops at the end (and thus think they got nothing).

See POE2 Delirium wiki entry.

According to the wiki, Instilled maps will not drop further Distilled Emotions, but Delirium mobs can drop splinters.