Path of exile Abyss league challenges 3.1

In this guide ill show you how to complete the challenges in the abyss league in path of exile.
Work in Progress!

Useful stuff to know!

• You can track your challenges ingame by pressing "H"
  
• If you are searching for a particular challenge you can press CTRL+F to search for it or you can navigate to the one you want on the right side.
  
• Use /global 820 Actively as people are sharing twinned, unid maps, completion of map etc all the time. Global 820 will be your best friend for completing most of the challenges and dont forget, do the same when you find or are doing things other need for the challenges.

Rewards!

From the 19th challenge onwards and for every third challenge after that, you receive pieces of a Abyss Totem Pole decoration to display in your hideout. The Totem Pole permanently showcases how many of the Abyss challenges you completed during this league. 

Open Abyssal Trove

Probably the first challenge you will get as abysses are everywhere, after completing an abyss open up the chest that spawns at the end and this challenge will unlock.

Use these Currency items

Using any of these currency items on gear, maps, etc will get you this challenge, This should come naturally.

Items from Vendor Recipes

1. Chromatic Orb recipe: any item with Linked red, green, and blue sockets.
   
2. Orb of Augmentation recipe:
   
3. Orb of Chance recipe:
   
4. Orb of Alchemy recipe: 3 x Identified rare items with same name OR 2 x Identified rare items with same name and both 20% quality OR normal, magic, rare (all 20% quality)
   
5. Jeweller's Orb recipe: Any item with Six sockets.
   
6. Vaal Orb recipe: 7× vaal skill gems and 1× Sacrifice vaal fragment

Complete these Encounters I

All of these should come naturally as you progress i would not actively go out hunting for this one as i think everyone will unlock this at some point.

Socket Abyssal Jewel

Abyssal jewels drop from abysses, for this challenge you need to put it on a piece of gear and in youre skill tree. You can only put abyssal jewels in gear with an abyssal socket by doing abysses stygian belt will drop quite frequently stygian belts have an abyssal socket on them. Putting an abyssal jewel in the skill tree is as simple as putting it in any jewel slot you may have.

Vaal Side Area Items

By defeating the boss in any vaal side area and opening the chest have a chance to drop either a vaal gem or a sacrifice fragment. So just complete all vaal areas you come across which you should do anyway and this should come naturally.

Defeat these Act Bosses I

Unmissable this should come as you progress through the story.

Complete Abyssal Depths

When doing abyssals instead of a chest there will sometimes spawn an entrance to an area called Abyssal depths. Finishing this area will get you this challenge.

Kill these Unique Monsters

 
These are unique monsters that will spawn in different zones NOTE they dont always spawn so you have to farm the areas until they show up.

	

• Riptide is a unique Elemental located in The Tidal Island in Act 6.
  
• Fleetfreak is a unique Dreadwheel located in The Ridge in Act 6.
  
• Tunnelworm is an unique Devourer located in The Northern Forest in Act 7.
  
• Blightblade is a unique monster located in The Temple of Decay Level 1 in Act 7. He is only found in the second level of Temple of Decay Level 1, beyond a set of Stairs.
  
• Effigy of Fear is a unique Scarecrow located in The Imperial Fields in Act 8
  
• Nightbringer Lucius is located in The Lunaris Concourse in Act 8. He can be found up on the stairs on the way to the entrance of The Lunaris Temple Level 1.
  
• Regulus, Sun's Herald can be found in The Solaris Concourse in Act 8. He can be found near the water at the base of the plateau stairs.
  
• Boulderback is a unique Fighting Bull located in The Foothills in Act 9.
  
• Droolmaw is a unique monster located in The Belly of the Beast Act 9.

Defeat these Gods

• Tukohama, Karui God of War is a minor god and optional boss in act 6 and can be found in the arena in The Karui Fortress.
  
• Abberath, the Cloven One is a unique Goatman located in Prisoner's Gate in Act 6.
  
• Ryslatha, the Puppet Mistress is a unique Carrion Queen located in The Spawning Ground side area in the western area of The Wetlands in Act 6.
  
• Ralakesh is located in The Fortress Encampment Act 7.
  
• Gruthkul, Mother of Despair is a unique monster located in The Dread Thicket in Act 7.
  
• Yugul, Reflection of Terror is a unique monster and a minor god located in The High Gardens in Act 8.
  
• Shakari, Queen of the Sands located in The Oasis in Act 9.
  
• Garukhan, Queen of the Winds is a minor pantheon god and optional boss in Act 9 found in a side area of The Quarry.

Complete these Quests

• A Dirty Job: Clear the Fetid Pool of all undead and any other monsters (Act 1)
  
• Through Sacred Ground: quest is unlocked after you free Helena from the Chamber of Sins during Intruders in Black and after completing The Great White Beast (Act 2)
  
• Victario's Secrets: Find the three platinum busts (Act 3)
  
• An Indomitable Spirit: Find the spirit of Deshret in the mines and free it (Act 4)
  
• Kitava's Torments: Lani has asked you to find Kitava's Torments, three mystical Karui artefacts that are being stored in The Reliquary (Act 5)
  
• Fallen from Grace: Clear the Twilight Strand of undead (Act 6)
  
• Kishara's Star: Weylam has asked you to find Kishara's Star, an ancient Vaal relic that he wants to gift to his granddaughter, Lilly. Its last known location is the Causeway (Act 7)
  
• Love is Dead: Clarissa has asked you to find the Ankh of Eternity at the Quay, then bring it to her there so she can revive Tolman (Act 8)
  
• Fastis Fortuna: Petarus and Vanja have asked you to find the fabled Maraketh relic, the Calendar of Fortune, somewhere in the Foothills (Act 9)
  
• No Love for Old Ghosts: Weylam has asked you to search the Ossuary for the Elixir of Allure that once belonged to Queen Atziri (Act 10)
  

Identify Abyssal jewels

Identify all of the abyss jewels above, just keep farming the abysses and this should come naturally aswell.

Complete these Encounters II

Kill a monster possesed by two or more tormented spirits. Do the shore map and defeat Belcer, the Pirate Lord get him down until he spawns the first spirit wait abit until it enters him then get him down abit more until the second spirit spawns wait for it to enter then kill him.

Kill a rare monster with inner treasure. This is one you probably will struggle with unless you get really really lucky my advice here is to use /global 820 people over there are actively sharing when they find a monster with inner treasure.

Relase a Remnant of Corruption. This should also come naturally at some point sometimes essences have a remnant of corruption in them click on it and fight the monsters and this should unlock.

Open an arcanists strongbox. Unlocks naturally just keep on progressing and eventually you will come across the strongbox. They spawn quite frequently.

Defeat these Act Bosses II

Unmissable part of the story line.

Complete these Encounters III

Defeat Belcer, the Pirate Lord while possesed by Tormented bootlegger and the Tormented Buccaneer: When you get his health down abit he spawns a spirit and when you get him down alittle bit more he spawns another spirit. What you need to do is get him down until he spawns first spirit wait abit until the spirit enters him then get him down somre more until the second spawns wait abit until the spirit enters him then kill him. This is also another challenge by killing a monster possesed by two tormented spirits.

Defeat the Reaver without anyone in party being Bear Trapped:
The Reaver is a unique Undying who is the boss of Ghetto Map kill him without you or if you are in a party getting in his Bear Trap.

Drought-Maddened Rhoa is a unique Rhoa boss which is found in the Arid Lake map click on all the Rhoa nests on the way to him before you kill him there should be 3 rhoa nests.

Defeat Witch of the Cauldron while she has more than 30 souls from Soul Eater:
Witch of the Cauldron boss is in Burial Chambers map she will spawn zombies from a cauldron let her get up to 30 sould before you kill her.

Defeat Hybrid Widow in Arachnid Tomb Map while being covered in spiders. When fighting this boss you will get a debuff this is when you are covered in spiders it lasts for 10 seconds and while its on you have increased attack speed but less attack damage you need to kill the boss while this debuff is active.

Defeat Gnar, Eater of Carrion while he is enraged located in Canyon Map.
What you need to do is kill the other boss first (Stonebeak, Battle Fowl) when he is down Gnar becomes enraged. Kill him and this unlocks.

Defeat Stonebeak, Battle Fowl while she is enraged located in Canyon Map (same as above)
Do the opposite of above kill Gnar first so Stonebeak becomes Enraged then kill him.

Defeat Erythrophagia while you are affected by three of the curse zones Located in Phantasmagoria Map.
You need to kill her while you are affected by 3 curses.

Complete Abysses

Abysses spawn everywhere and sometimes there are even 4 of them in one map. Just keep on doing abysses and this will unlock.

Identify 100 Unique items

Identify every unqiue item you find until this challenge pops then you can resume ditching them whicever way you please. 100 unique items sounds like a lot but its not so bad you will get this in no time.

Defeat Influenced Enemies

Fiend portals spawn in elder influenced maps
Agent of the void: shaper will sometimes spawn an Agent of the void during the boss in any shaper influenced map.

Complete Influenced Map Tiers

Molochmane on the Path of Exile official forums has a great guide for elder and shaper influences Here[www.pathofexile.com]
What you need to do is to complete the corresponding tiers above while its being influenced by either Shaper or Elder. You will get this one when you are getting your shaper orbs.

Complete Zana Missions

There are 7 different daily quests you can get from Zana, but they will be random every time so you may hit a couple of the same ones but i have no doubt you will get this challenge atleast before you get zana to lvl 7.

Defeat Abyssal Lich

When doing Abyssal Depths at the end sometimes an Abyssal Lich boss will spawn kill him and the challenge unlocks.

Complete Unided Rare Maps

Complete all the tiers above with maps that are not identified Keep an eye out for /global 820 and you can also buy the ones you need.

Shape these Maps

Alot has changed on the shapers orbs, you need to gain elder influence and move up the tiers for a chance at a shapers orb. First shaper orb is when you reach elder influence on a t6 map i beleive.
If you want to know more about shapers orbs, Molochmane on the Path of Exile official forums has a great guide for elder and shaper influences Here[www.pathofexile.com]

Complete these Encounters IV

All of these will come naturally so no need to actively go hunting for this one but make it a habit when doing breaches to always open the clasped hands which you should do anyway. For Rogue Exiles there are different ways you can speed it up like map mods etc. Echoing shrine can be annoying but i got mine in global 820.

Fully Upgrade your Hideout

Get any forsaken Master to lvl 7 to fully upgrade youre hideout.

Defeat Elder Guardians

Gain enough elder influence until the elder guardians and elder spawn on youre map. Kill the elders guardians first then the elder. Then do it over and over again until you have encountered all the guardians.

Defeat following Abyssal Monsters

Keep doing abysses and eventually you will have killed them all.

Achieve Ascension

Do the normal,cruel,merciless and Eternal Labyrinth and use the ascendancy device to ascend in all 4 of them.

Defeat The Elder

By gaining enough elder influence eventually elder will spawn in one of your maps along with guardians, to encounter him you need to kill all the guardians that spawn and then go into the map where elder is. Defeat him in white,yellow and red tier maps. Note if you go straight for red tier elder kill the other two will auto unlock (yellow and white) and if you kill him in yellow tier white tier also auto unlocks.

Complete these Encounters V

Defeat the Pale Council.
The Pale Council are four endgame bosses, located in the Pale Court
The Pale Court can be accessed by combining the following four Map fragments in the Map Device.
Volkuur's Key,Eber's Key,Inya's Key,Yriel's Key.
To get these keys you need to complete certain prophecy chains.

Defeat any Breachlord.
The Breachlords are five endgame bosses, located inside the five types of Breaches.
When completing breaches in the world sometimes splinters will drop when you have 100 of these splinters you can right click on it to create a map which you then can put in a map device. Get to the end of the map and kill the Breachlord there.

Relase an Essence of Hysteria,Insanity, Horror or Delirium.
By using a Remnant of Corruption on a group of monsters trapped by an Essence of Scorn, Envy, Misery or Dread of any level will have a chance to get any of those essences.

Reach Level 90

Simply reach level 90 and youre skill gems will most likely hit lvl 20 around that time which is another challenge.

Level up a Gem to 20

Level up any skill gem to 20, youre skill gem will most likely hit lvl 20 around character level 90.

Identify Unique

For this you need to identify any of the uniques above and they need to have 2 abyssal sockets.
Will drop from abyss liches.

Complete Twinned Maps

Complete the above maps Twinned, either craft them yourself or buy the ones you need alternatively search global 820.

Complete Maps with Eight Mods

You can only get 8 mods on a map by vaaling start vaaling Rare maps in the corresponding tiers above and then complete them when they have 8 mods on them. Alternatively you can just buy the maps also seen alot of people sharing them on /global 820

Complete these Sextant Mods

Use sextant mods on maps and there is a chance the above mods will trigger once they have complete the maps withing the radius of the sextant for this challenge to unlock. Only need to complete it one time.

Complete Influenced Maps

Complete maps that are influenced by either Shaper or Elder there is a great guide written by Molochmane explaining abit over on the poe official forums : here[www.pathofexile.com] This will most likely come naturally for you as you progress through the atlas.

Complete Unique Maps

You need to complete 14 of the avaible 18 unique maps do the unique maps you may find then later on come back and finish this one (when you may have some extra currency) Then just buy the ones you need.

Complete Deadly Encounters

Complete The Alluring Abyss or Uber Atziri as its called you can acess it by combining Mortal Grief,Mortal Rage,Mortal Ignorance,Mortal Hope in your map device.

Defeat the Shaper.
Complete 4 of the Guardians to get fragments to get to shaper and kill him.

Complete the Vaal Temple.
The Vaal Temple Map can only be obtained by corrupting a Tier 15 or higher map.

Complete these Encounters VI

Not all of this are complete will update once i know more!  

Defeat Guardian of the Minotaur without anyone in party being hit by the lightning arcs.
Loacted in Maze of the Minotaur Map, Defeat him without getting hit by the lightning arcs around.

Defeat Guardian of the Hydra without anyone in party being hit by the turrets.
Defeat her without getting hit by the turrets around her that shoots frostbolts, the less health she has the more frostbolts are gonna be shot so be careful.

Defeat Konley, the Unrepentant while he is channeling Divine beam.
Located in Basilica T15 map, kill him while he is channeling divine beam get him down to about 20% then run around and once he channels Divine beam kill him.

Defeat Amalgam of Nightmares while you have maximum stacks of any Effluent.
Located in Carcass map T15. Will update once i know more

Defeat Nassar, Lion of the Seas without being affected by Tidal Wave or anyone in party being hit by the lightning bolts.
Located in Reef map T15.

Defeat Armala, the Widow while being covered in a Web.
Located in Sunken City map T15.

Defeat The Hallowed Husk while having 5 or more sucks of Corrupted Blood Rain.
Located in Palace map T14.

Defeat the Atziri trio by killing A'alai last.
In Apex of Sacrifice second boss kill Q'ura, And Y'ara'az then kill A'alai last.

Complete Endgame Grinds

This will most likely be your very last challenge here you need to farm 4 of the 6 endgame grinds. You can choose which ones you may go for. If youre character is not strong enough to fight one grind you can buy carrys. Either way its gonna take you a long time for this one.

[Øyvri]

You are correct one time thing but that could change in the future.

[Senpai Potato]

what happens to league rewards when it ends? Do they simply roll them out into the microtransaction store or they are forever gone as some sort of pride of accomplishment thing?

[swedish_bathtub_tosser(=ikea=)]

[Berbo]

sick work dude, wp!

[Clicker Master]

Good guide tho

[Øyvri]

Thanks for that, Happy to help!

[TheNebularity ඞ]

Very nice and detailed written guide on achieveing the Challenges for Abyss League, Saves me a lot of time just reading this instead of having to constantly google what I'm meant to be doing.

Would give a thumbs up for it but It appears it doesn't accpet peoples thumbs that have a Vac Ban xd.