Strategy
This guide covers hunting and capturing one of 0.5’s rarest prizes: a companion carrying the Undying Will aura, a high-tier Abyss modifier that projects a persistent green aura making your minions almost completely invulnerable. Inside the aura’s radius, minions stop taking direct hit damage and are immune to burning ground and poison ground — though they can still be chilled and cursed. Your own character is not protected directly, but there is a strong knock-on defensive benefit.
Why it matters: the Loyalty support still works on companions while they sit under Undying Will. Loyalty normally only redirects damage away from you while the minion is alive — and the things that usually kill minions (hits, burning/poison ground) are exactly what Undying Will now blocks. So your companions stay alive and keep soaking your damage, turning this into a near-permanent, massive player damage-reduction layer. It is the foundation of an “invulnerability” minion setup.
A note on history: when the interaction was first found, players used it to make their own characters effectively invulnerable and that specific abuse was hotfixed. What remains is the minion-invulnerability aura itself.
Atlas Tree & Setup
The aura comes from an Abyss modifier fused onto a monster’s essence, so you need a map that reliably spawns both Abyss and Essence. A strong starting point is the Stones of Selath area around Act 5 (via Interloop), which is guaranteed to spawn Abyss and is a large but non-maze layout that is easy to run. Full atlas/map specifics should be confirmed against the source video.
Investment & Returns
- Investment: low in raw currency — the cost is time and many attempts, not divines
- Returns: mid — this is a defensive/quality-of-life prize (a near-invulnerable minion wall), not a currency farm
- Scaling: the more companions you run under the aura, the stronger the Loyalty damage-reduction stack becomes
Step-by-step
- Run a guaranteed-Abyss layout such as the Stones of Selath around Act 5.
- Locate an Essence spawn in the map (the map already guarantees the Abyss).
- Find the Abyss and follow it to the monster that combines the Essence with the Undying Will Abyss modifier.
- Capture that monster as a companion — this is the hard, low-consistency step.
- Slot it with Loyalty so your minions stay alive under the persistent green aura and feed the player-side damage reduction.
Risks
- The capture is extremely difficult and low-consistency — expect many failed attempts.
- The aura protects minions only: chill ground and curses still land on them, and your character still takes direct damage.
- The historic player-invulnerability version was already hotfixed; treat any new interactions as fragile and patch-prone.
- Requires the right Abyss + Essence overlap to even attempt, so runs can be dry.
Credits & Source
Method credited to Mattjestic Life, with a shout-out to Chinese creator YoShi Wanugo who originally tested the aura. See the source video for the full demonstration and capture walkthrough: How to Find & Tame the New 0.5 Ultra-Rare Abyss Mod Aura.