PoE Ruthless Challenges 3.24 Affliction Guide

1. Lauded Levels

Reach level 90.

2. Whimsical Wildwood Wisps(90000)

Collect 30,000 of each type of Wisp in the Viridian Wildwood.
  • Primal (0/30,000). Primal (Blue) Wisps cause them to drop currency items.
  • Wild (0/30,000). Wild (Purple) Wisps grant an item rarity bonus.
  • Vivid (0/30,000). Vivid (Yellow) Wisps grant an item quantity bonus.

Multiple types of wisps can affect the same monster. Wisps can also affect monsters that have not been spawned yet such as Breach monsters, even when they are not on the map after completing the Affliction encounter. Some monsters in the Wildwood can also spawn already affected by Wisps.

3. Eldritch Engagement(100)

Use Eldritch Altars or defeat Witnessed Map Bosses with their respective Atlas Passive Keystones allocated the specified number of times.

  • Searing Exarch Altars with Wrath of the Cosmos Allocated. Wrath of the Cosmos: Eldritch Altars Influenced by The Searing Exarch have 50% chance to have an additional Upside. Eldritch Altars Influenced by The Searing Exarch which have an additional Upside have 100% increased Effect of Downsides.
  • Eater of Worlds Altars with Eldritch Gaze Allocated. Eldritch Gaze: Eldritch Altars Influenced by The Eater of Worlds have an additional Downside, Eldritch Altars Influenced by The Eater of Worlds have 50% increased Effect of Upsides.
  • Witnessed Map Bosses with Destructive Play Allocated. Destructive Play: The Maven casts Up the Stakes, summoning 1 to 3 additional Bosses when Witnessing Map Bosses. Modifiers to the Final Map Boss in each Map also apply to these summoned Bosses.

4. Extraordinary Enemies(1000)

Defeat 1,000 Rare Monsters in level 78 or higher areas.

5. Mythical Maji Masters

Allocate eight Wildwood Passive Points in any of the following single Wildwood Specialisations.

Earn Wildwood Ascendancy Points:

  • Your first 2 Wildwood Ascendancy Points are acquired when you first meet the associated NPC and choose their specialisation.
  • The next 4 points come from 2 quests from each NPC.
  • The final 2 points come from defeating the King in the Mists, which will unlock the final 2 points for all three Wildwood Ascendancies. If you do this quest in advance (e.g. through Multiplayer), it will count towards the points even if you aren't on that stage of the quest.

6. Lethal Lairs(30)

Complete 30 Red Tier maps with at least 50% Item Quantity.

7. Retched Ritualist Restrictions(3)

Defeat The King in the Mists in the Crux of Nothingness in any three of the specified ways.
  • Without gaining more than 3 stacks of Shadow Surge. Phase 3: Shadow Surge. Bug Bomb - /The end of meaning is nigh! - Fires a large purple orb, dealing physical and chaos damage and inflicting Shadow Surge, an accelerating physicial DOT.
  • While you are affected by Mystic Miasma. Standing near the King in the Mists while he has his staff raised to use a skill inflicts a short-duration debuff of Mystic Miasma, dealing cold and chaos damage over time.
  • Without taking damage from Ritual of Meditation or Ritual of Dance. Ritual of Meditation - Keep running!/Slaogarn! - Inflicts a debuff for 8 seconds, imprisoning players if they move and inflicting Maim afterwards. Ritual of Dance - Traveler's bane!/You are seen!/Rith! - Inflicts a debuff for 8 seconds, imprisoning players if they stand still and inflicting Maim afterwards.
  • Without being hit by any Exploding Toads. Phase 1 & Phase 3: Creates a patch of Viscous Swamp, spawning purple toads that hop towards the player before exploding, dealing chaos damage.

8. Favoured Fantasies

Unlock all Favoured Map Slots.
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Affliction Challenge Rewards

In the Affliction League, you'll be able to earn pieces of the exclusive Night Lotus Armour Set by completing 40 new challenges. At 4, 8, 12 and 16 challenges, you'll receive the Night Lotus Boots, Gloves, Body Armour, and Helmet respectively.

Additional tiers of this armour set are unlocked as you complete more challenges in the Affliction League. Completing challenges also grants you pieces of the Affliction Totem Pole Hideout decoration!

In Ruthless, you will receive the full Night Lotus Armour Set at 2 challenges, and each challenge completed after that will upgrade pieces of the set with the entire set fully upgraded once 8 challenges are completed.

Affliction Challenge Rewards

The Affliction Challenge League

  • Challenge leagues are a great opportunity for a fresh start in a new economy. All of your old characters and items are still present in the Standard and Hardcore leagues, but you're encouraged to join the new leagues, complete challenges and demonstrate your mastery of Path of Exile!
  • In the Affliction Challenge League, you will encounter Sacred Wisps which beckon you to enter overgrown passageways that lead to the Viridian Wildwood. A vile affliction has covered this forest with a foreboding darkness. You'll need to uncover the forest's mysteries to put a stop to the source of the Affliction.
  • The wisps burn away the forest's affliction when you approach the darkness, though they have limited power. Discover other types of wisps trapped inside the darkness, follow their trail by collecting them, and uncover many different secrets.
  • When the sacred wisps run out of energy, they return you to where you came from, along with any other wisps you collected. These wisps, having been saved from the affliction, disperse into the environment and inhabit randomly chosen monsters in the area, increasing their power, and also their rewards.
  • While exploring the Wildwood, you might find some of the last few Azmeri wanderers who have managed to survive in the forest since it was cursed. Each of them have different survival specialisations, and they are willing to teach you if you agree to help them defeat the source of the Affliction: the King in the Mists.
  • For more information about this expansion, check out pathofexile.com/affliction.
  • With 3.23.0, there are Standard, Hardcore, Solo Self-Found and Ruthless variations of the Affliction challenge league available. They have the same core mechanics and items. You can create private league versions of these leagues, with mods that make the game harder.
  • The new Affliction challenge league includes a set of 40 new challenges, and 8 new challenges in Ruthless Affliction. There are microtransaction rewards for completing challenges that are only obtainable in this league.

In the Ancestor League, you'll be able to earn pieces of the exclusive Beastmaster Armour Set by completing 40 new challenges. At 4, 8, 12 and 16 challenges, you'll receive the Beastmaster Boots, Gloves, Body Armour, and Helmet respectively. Additional tiers of this armour set are unlocked as you complete more challenges in the Ancestor League. Completing challenges also grants you pieces of the Ancestor Totem Pole Hideout decoration! In Ruthless, you will receive the full Beastmaster Armour Set at 2 challenges, and each challenge completed after that will upgrade pieces of the set with the entire set fully upgraded once 8 challenges are completed.

PoE Ruthless Challenges 3.22

1. Drastic Development

Reach level 90.

2. Ngamahu's Notable Niceties(10)

Spend 10,000 favour with each Karui Tribe.

3. Vivid Voidstones

Socket four Voidstones into your Atlas.

4. Destructive Denizens(100)

Defeat 100 4-Modifier Rare Monsters.

5. Valako's Valiant Valuables(18)

Use any 18 of the following Tattoos or Omens.

  • Omen of Death-dancing. Will be Consumed when you reach 25% of Life. to grant 75% chance to Avoid Damage from Hits for 4 seconds
  • Omen of Refreshment. Will be Consumed when you reach 25% of Life. to Refill all Flasks
  • Omen of the Soul Devourer. Will be Consumed when you level up. to grant Soul Eater
  • Omen of Acceleration. Will be Consumed when you level up. to create an Acceleration Shrine
  • Omen of Fortune. Will be Consumed when you use an Orb of Chance. on an item which can become Unique to ensure it does so
  • Omen of the Jeweller. Will be Consumed when you use a Jeweller's Orb. on an item to ensure maximum Sockets
  • Omen of Connections. Will be Consumed when you use an Orb of Fusing. on an item to ensure maximum Links
  • Omen of Blanching. Will be Consumed when you use a Chromatic Orb. on an item to make 1-3 Sockets become White
  • Omen of Revenge. Will be Consumed when you Die. to make each nearby enemy permanently take 25% more Damage
  • Omen of Bequeathal. Will be Consumed when you Die. to add 300% of lost Experience to Gems
  • Omen of Resurgence. Will be Consumed when you reach 25% of Life. to cause 100% of Damage taken to be Recouped as Life for 4 seconds
  • Omen of Adrenaline. Will be Consumed when you reach 25% of Life. to grant Adrenaline for 10 seconds
  • Omen of Death's Door. Will be Consumed when you reach 25% of Life. to grant Shade Form for 3 seconds
  • Omen of Brilliance. Will be Consumed when you level up. to grant 100% increased Experience gained for 60 seconds

You earn rewards for each match you win. In addition to a selection of regular items that may be offered, there are some exclusive new rewards that you can only get from the Trial of the Ancestors. Passive Tree Tattoos are one such reward. These are not applied to your skin but are instead engraved on your soul. Applying your tattoo will change what the attribute skills on your passive tree do.

If you win the entire tournament, Hinekora can also offer you a new type of item called an Omen. They can be stored in your inventory until a condition is met, at which point it is consumed and its effect occurs. You can only consume one Omen per combat area. She may also offer a lock of her hair, which allows you to foresee the result of an item crafting outcome.

6. Everlasting Expanses(30)

Complete 30 Red Tier Rare Maps while they are unidentified. (Red tier: Tier 11 - 16. Area level: 78 - 83.)

7. Rongokurai's Resilient Recognition(4)

Win the Trial of the Ancestors in the specified ways while you have at least 250 Ranking.

8. Cruel Contingency(2)

Defeat any two of the following bosses in the specified ways while the area is level 85.

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Ancestor Challenge Rewards

The Ancestor Challenge League

  • Challenge leagues are a great opportunity for a fresh start in a new economy. All of your old characters and items are still present in the Standard and Hardcore leagues, but you're encouraged to join the new leagues, complete challenges and demonstrate your mastery of Path of Exile!
  • In the Ancestor Challenge League, you'll visit the Karui afterlife and defeat ten tribes in a series of tournaments to earn valuable new rewards.
  • As you play through the league, you'll find tradeable Silver coins which are used to gain passage to the Karui Afterlife. You'll start out with a basic team of three Karui warriors to enter the Trial of the Ancestors.
  • In each match, you can select which tribe to compete against, based on the reward offered. You can examine the battlefield configuration of the enemy team and strategically place your warriors to challenge theirs. Then you and your party will compete alongside your warriors to destroy the opposing team's totems and win the match.
  • When you compete in tournaments, you'll accumulate favour with each of the tribes. This can be spent on recruiting warriors and purchasing field items and equipment to power up your team. Each tribe has their own specialities and you can mix and match warriors from different tribes to build a team that embodies your strategy.
  • For more information about this expansion, check out pathofexile.com/ancestor
  • With 3.22.0, there are Standard, Hardcore, Solo Self-Found and Ruthless variations of the Ancestor challenge league available. They have the same core mechanics and items. You can create private league versions of these leagues, with mods that make the game harder.
  • The new Ancestor challenge league includes a set of 40 new challenges, and 8 new challenges in Ruthless Ancestor. There are microtransaction rewards for completing challenges that are only obtainable in this league. These rewards will be revealed in an upcoming news post.

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