Keepers of the Flame

PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide

The PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide routes all 40 Keeper of the Flame challenges through a reward ladder, Atlas/Hive buckets, and per-objective cheat cards you can scan mid-league. Keep this PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide pinned when your squad calls plays.

Full set requirement36 / 40 challenges

Atlas-weighted tasks28 challenges

Hive-focused tasks7 challenges

Plan route Browse all 40

Last updated: November 13, 2025 — PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide compiled from reveal notes, dev posts, and challenge trackers

PoE 3.27

PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide Rewards Ladder

Compare League vs. Ruthless payouts directly inside the PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide and track which milestones you can realistically clear each phase. Hover the notes to remind the team what kind of content unlocks each reward.

Mode	Threshold	Reward	Route note
League	12 challenges	Keeper of the Flame Boots	Finish the Acts + starter Hive quests.
League	20 challenges	Keeper of the Flame Gloves	Finish early Atlas unlocks before yellow maps.
League	28 challenges	Keeper of the Flame Body Armour	Complete Atlas sustain and graft buckets.
League	36 challenges	Keeper of the Flame Helmet	Full cosmetic set without farming the last four.
Ruthless	2 challenges	Keeper of the Flame Boots	Intro Hive quests and early missions.
Ruthless	4 challenges	Keeper of the Flame Gloves	Basic Atlas or crafting objectives.
Ruthless	6 challenges	Keeper of the Flame Body Armour	Maps with a few targeted mechanics.
Ruthless	8 challenges	Keeper of the Flame Helmet	Requires the same pinnacle bosses but far fewer clears.

Front-loaded cosmetics

The PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide hands you boots at 12 completions and gloves at 20, so you can finish the first two rewards while you are still cleaning up Acts and early Hive missions.

Atlas is 70% of the grind

The PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide shows 28 of 40 challenges sitting on the Atlas, so stockpile scarabs, Horizon Orbs, and Kirac missions before pushing red maps.

Hive double-dips

The PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide highlights 7 Hive objectives (Otherworldly Obstacles through Sinew Swarms) demanding Graftblood, Wombgifts, or Hive fortresses—schedule dedicated Hive sessions so you do not stall Atlas Awe.

PoE 3.27

PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide Route Buckets

Each bucket represents a clean slice of the PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide. Use them as sprint goals for your squad so you never wonder where to send players next.

Completing this bucket unlocks the boots + gloves milestones for most squads.

Campaign & Hive Onboarding (12 challenges)

Acts 1–10, early Hive encounters, vendor recipes, and league mechanic unlocks that can be banked on the first day.

Acts 1-10 bossesVendor recipesHive introductions

#1Beginner's Basics
#2Otherworldly Obstacles
#3Peddler's Produce I
#4Act Adversaries I
#5Regretful Requests
#6Insidious Invaders
#7Act Adversaries II
#8Helpful Hideaways
#9Additional Assets
#10Core Campaigns
#11Mighty Missions
#12Generous Gifts

Carries you through 20+ completions before yellow maps run out of juice.

Atlas Unlocks & Core Systems (8 challenges)

Introduce Atlas passive trees, pantheons, ascendancy finals, tarot cards, and higher-tier vendor crafts.

Atlas passive gatesAscendancy labGenesis tree quests

#13Parallel Pathing
#14Cunning Crafts
#15Potent Pantheons
#16Legendary Leagues
#17Revolting Roots
#18Achieve Ascension
#19Telling Tarot
#20Peddler's Produce II

Pushes completions into the high 20s while diversifying mapping content.

Atlas Specialists & Side Content (7 challenges)

Targeted Atlas missions, logbooks, synth maps, breach/beetle stacks, and cross-mechanic combos.

Kirac/Atlas missionsMap device combosBreach & Heist content

#21Aggravating Antagonists
#22Grotesque Gains
#23Remarkable Realms
#24Bijou Beetles
#25Trusted Thaumaturgy
#26Cross Contamination
#27Gruesome Grafts

Delivers the body armour + helmet thresholds with consistent red-map play.

Atlas Sustain & Hive Pressure (7 challenges)

Bloodline ascendancies, Atlas slot unlocks, item-quantity pushes, Originator modifiers, and heavy Hive requirements.

Bloodline ascendanciesMap quantity stackingHive fortresses

#28Bloodline Boons
#29Atlas Awe
#30Quantity Quandary
#31Originator's Oath
#32Sinew Swarms
#33Keystone Keepers
#34Expensive Extravagance

Optional closer: clean up remaining challenges for 40/40 bragging rights.

Pinnacle Boss & Grind Gauntlet (6 challenges)

Aspirational invitations, juiced breachlords, uber bosses, and level 100 / 1,000-modifiers grinds.

Uber invitationsPinnacle bossesEndgame lab + XP pushes

#35Cruel Challenges
#36Inconceivable Incarnations
#37Bolstered Breachlords
#38Juiced Jamboree
#39Oppressive Opponents
#40Grueling Game Grinds

PoE 3.27

PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide Library

Detailed objectives for every challenge live inside the PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide. Use it as a worksheet or pair it with your planner/spreadsheet to track squad progress.

Bucket

Campaign & Hive Onboarding

Completing this bucket unlocks the boots + gloves milestones for most squads. This PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide bucket keeps squads aligned.

Challenge #1All

Beginner's Basics

Use a Scroll of Wisdom
Equip a Magic Flask
Have Equipment in every slot
Defeat an Act Boss

Challenge #2All

Otherworldly Obstacles

Equip a Graft
Complete a Hiveborn Encounter
Visit the Monastery of the Keepers

Challenge #3All

Peddler's Produce I

Armourer's Scrap: Vendor any armor with 20% quality, or pieces totaling 40% quality.
Blacksmith's Whetstone: Vendor any weapon with 20% quality, or weapons totaling 40%.
Glassblower's Bauble: Vendor any normal flask with 20% quality, or flasks totaling 40%.
Gemcutter's Prism: Vendor any gem with 20% quality, or gems totaling 40%.

Challenge #4All

Act Adversaries I

Act 1: Merveil, the Twisted
Act 2: Vaal Oversoul
Act 3: Dominus, Ascendant
Act 4: Malachai, The Nightmare
Act 5: Kitava, the Insatiable

Challenge #5All

Regretful Requests

A Dirty Job (Act 1: Clear The Fetid Pool)
Fallen from Grace (Act 6: Clear Twilight Strand)
Fastis Fortuna (Act 9: Kill Boulderback in Foothills)
No Love for Old Ghosts (Act 10: Get Elixir of Allure in Ossuary)

Challenge #6All

Insidious Invaders

Defeat Rare Hiveborn Monsters 50 times
Complete Hive Encounters 10 times
Complete Unstable Breach Encounters 5 times

Challenge #7All

Act Adversaries II

Act 6: Tsoagoth, The Brine King
Act 7: Arakaali, Spinner of Shadows
Act 8: Lunaris and Solaris
Act 9: The Depraved Trinity
Act 10: Kitava, the Insatiable

Challenge #8All

Helpful Hideaways

Aspirants' Plaza (from Act 3, ascendancy area)
Menagerie (Einhar, Act 2)
Mine Encampment (Niko, Act 4)
Forbidden Sanctum (Divinia, Act 10)
Kingsmarch (Johan, Epilogue)
Rogue Harbour (use a Rogue's Marker after Act 6)

Challenge #9At least 3

Additional Assets

Defeat Monsters with Essence (30x)
Open Strongboxes (30x)
Activate Shrines (30x)
Defeat Harbingers (30x)
Defeat Possessed Monsters (30x)
Defeat Rogue Exiles (30x)
Defeat Rare Beyond Monsters (30x)

Challenge #10At least 5

Core Campaigns

Complete Abysses (30x)
Complete Expeditions (30x)
Harvest Plots (100x)
Complete Legion Encounters (30x)
Open Smuggler's Caches (30x)
Pass through Mirrors of Delirium (30x)
Complete Ultimatum Waves (200x)
Complete Blights (30x)
Complete Rituals (100x)
Complete Ore Deposit Encounters (30x)

Challenge #11At least 2

Mighty Missions

Complete Niko Missions (30x)
Complete Einhar Missions (30x)
Complete Jun Missions (30x)
Complete Alva Missions (30x)

Challenge #12All Items must be level 78+ to count

Generous Gifts

Grow Ancient Wombgift (10x)
Grow Growing Wombgift (10x)
Grow Lavish Wombgift (10x)
Grow Provisioning Wombgift (10x)
Grow Mysterious Wombgift (10x)

Bucket

Atlas Unlocks & Core Systems

Carries you through 20+ completions before yellow maps run out of juice. This PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide bucket keeps squads aligned.

Challenge #133 required

Parallel Pathing

Unlock all three Atlas Passive Trees.

Unlock the left Atlas Passive Tree
Unlock the center Atlas Passive Tree
Unlock the right Atlas Passive Tree

Challenge #14All

Cunning Crafts

Use Orb of Transmutation
Use Orb of Augmentation
Use Orb of Alteration
Use Orb of Chance
Use Orb of Alchemy
Use Orb of Scouring
Use Orb of Fusing
Use Jeweller's Orb
Use Chromatic Orb
Use Orb of Annulment
Use Regal Orb
Use Chaos Orb
Use Exalted Orb
Use Blessed Orb
Use Divine Orb

Challenge #15All

Potent Pantheons

Fully upgrade one Major and three Minor Pantheon powers.

Challenge #16At least 4 Objectives must be done in level 81+ Areas

Legendary Leagues

Abyssal Depths (5x)
Logbooks with 10+ Remnants (5x)
Tier 4 Harvest Seeds (5x)
Domains of Timeless Conflict with 25+ rewards (3x)
Blueprints with 4 revealed wings (5x)
Simulacrum Waves (60x)
Fully Completed Ultimatums (10x)
Blighted or Blight Ravaged Maps (5x)
All Rituals in Maps with Blood-filled Vessel (20x)
Claim rewards from Rare Maps completed by Atlas Runners (30x)

Challenge #17All

Revolting Roots

Fully upgrade the Genesis Tree by completing:

Gifts for the Genesis Tree
Fertilising the Genesis Tree

Challenge #18All

Achieve Ascension

Use the Ascendancy Device in Normal, Cruel, Merciless, and Eternal LabyrinthsGain a Bloodline Class

Challenge #19At least 3

Telling Tarot

Open Diviners Strongboxes (3x)
Complete Red or Purple Tier Rare Maps with Divination Card Scarabs (20x)
Turn in sets of Divination Cards that reward Currency (30x)
Scry a Map

Challenge #20All

Peddler's Produce II

Complete vendor recipes to receive:

Cartographer's Chisel (20% quality map OR maps totaling 40% quality OR 20% quality Gavel + any map)
Chaos Orb (full set of rare gear, ilvl 60–74)
Regal Orb (three rare items with same name at 20% quality OR full rare set, ilvl 75+)
Exalted Shard (full rare set with matching influence)

Bucket

Atlas Specialists & Side Content

Pushes completions into the high 20s while diversifying mapping content. This PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide bucket keeps squads aligned.

Challenge #21At least Six Defeat any of the bosses at level 80+

Aggravating Antagonists

Defeat Uber Atziri
Defeat Izaro (special Offering)
Defeat Abyssal Lich
Defeat Omnitect
Defeat Vox Twins
Defeat K'tash, Ghorr, or Beidat
Defeat Medved, Vorana, or Uhtred
Defeat The Black Knight, Admiral
Valerius, or Sasan

Challenge #22At least Five

Grotesque Gains

Use Augmentation Implant (4x)
Use Regal Implant (3x)
Use Exalted Implant (2x)
Use Unstable Implant (1x)
Use Foulborn Orb of Augmentation (3x)
Use Foulborn Regal Orb (2x)
Use Foulborn Exalted Orb (1x)

Challenge #23All

Remarkable Realms

Complete Full list of 20+ unique maps, including Vaults of Atziri, Poorjoy’s Asylum, Doryani’s Machinarium, etc.

Challenge #24All

Bijou Beetles

Complete Red or Purple Tier Rare Maps at 70%+ Item Quantity with:

One Scarab (50x)
Two Scarabs (40x)
Three Scarabs (30x)
Four Scarabs (20x)
Five Scarabs (10x)

Challenge #25At least 3

Trusted Thaumaturgy

Have at least 25 Gems socketed in your equipped gear
Turn in a card set that rewards a Level 21 or 23% Quality Gem
Apply six or more Support Gem effects to a socketed Skill Gem at once
Level an Awakened Gem to level 5

Challenge #26At least 4

Cross Contamination

Open a Smuggler's Cache while affected by a Shrine
Defeat a Rogue Exile that is Possessed three times
Defeat a Beyond Boss while Delirious
Complete an Ore Deposit while affected by a Tempest
Capture a Beast holding an Essence
Defeat a Unique Map Boss that is Possessed while in a Ritual

Challenge #27At least 12

Gruesome Grafts

Equip any 12 of the Grafts (ilvl 78+, 4 mods)

Bucket

Atlas Sustain & Hive Pressure

Delivers the body armour + helmet thresholds with consistent red-map play. This PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide bucket keeps squads aligned.

Challenge #28At least 7

Bloodline Boons

Defeat The Trialmaster
Defeat The King in the Mists
Defeat Oshabi
Defeat Catarina
Defeat Aul
Defeat Olroth
Defeat Lycia
Defeat Farrul
Defeat Simulacrum (all 15 waves)
Defeat It That Was Tul and It That Was Esh

Challenge #2912 required

Atlas Awe

Defeat specific bosses or complete objectives to unlock each Favoured Map Slot from the following:

Tier 16+ map
Elder Guardian
Shaper Guardian
Conqueror of the Atlas
Sirus, Awakener of Worlds
Cortex
The Shaper
Uber Elder
The Maven
The Eater of Worlds
Maven Invitation: The Feared

Challenge #30All

Quantity Quandary

Complete Maps with a total of 50,000% Item Quantity from all modifiers (excluding party bonuses)

Challenge #31All

Originator's Oath

Complete rare Originator-influenced maps with a total of 200 explicit modifiers.

Challenge #32Complete in level 81+ areas

Sinew Swarms

Hive Encounter (60x)
Unstable Breach Encounter (60x)
Hive Fortress or Hive Colony Encounter (10x)

Challenge #33All

Keystone Keepers

Complete Searing Exarch Altars with Wrath of the Cosmos (100x)
Complete Eater of Worlds Altars with Eldritch Gaze (100x)
Complete Witnessed Map Bosses with Destructive Play (150x)

Challenge #34At least 15

Expensive Extravagance

Use any 15 of the following types of crafting Currency the specified number of times.

Awakener's Orb
Blight Oil (10x)
Catalyst (40x)
Corrupted Essence (4x)
Eldritch Exalted, Annulment or Chaos Orb
Exceptional Eldritch Ichor or Ember
Fracturing Orb
Hinekora's Lock
Influenced Exalted Orb
Mirror of Kalandra
Orb of Dominance
Orb of Remembrance, Unravelling or Intention
Reflecting Mist
Runegraft
Sacred Crystallised Lifeforce
Sacred Orb
Tainted Currency (10x)
Tattoo
Tempering or Tailoring Orb
Veiled Exalted or Chaos Orb

Bucket

Pinnacle Boss & Grind Gauntlet

Optional closer: clean up remaining challenges for 40/40 bragging rights. This PoE 3.27 Challenge Guide bucket keeps squads aligned.

Challenge #35Complete with at least 70% Item Quantity

Cruel Challenges

Screaming
Incandescent
The Elderslayers
The Feared
The Forgotten
The Formed
The Remembered
The Twisted

Challenge #36At least 2 at level 85 areas

Inconceivable Incarnations

Defeat Incarnation of Dread
Defeat Incarnation of Fear
Defeat Incarnation of Neglect

Challenge #37At least 3

Bolstered Breachlords

Defeat Hiveborn Bosses in any three of these ways:

Without being affected by Boiling Blood
Without being hit by any Breachlord Orb Explosions
Without being hit by Rolling Lightning Nova
Without being hit by Tentacle Barrage

Challenge #38At least 6 with at least 175% Item Quantity and 5 Scarabs applied

Juiced Jamboree

Abomination Map
Citadel Map
Fortress Map
Sanctuary Map
Ziggurat Map
Courtyard of Wasting
Chambers of Impurity
Theatre of Lies

Challenge #39At least 4 at level 85 areas

Oppressive Opponents

Sirus, Awakener of Worlds in Eye of the Storm
The Elder in The Shaper's Realm
The Maven in Absence of Mercy and Empathy
The Searing Exarch in Absence of Patience and Wisdom
The Eater of Worlds in Absence of Symmetry and Harmony
High Templar Venarius in Cortex
The Shaper in The Shaper's Realm

Challenge #40At least 4

Grueling Game Grinds

Reach Level 100
Defeat Argus in Endgame Labyrinth (100x)
Defeat Pinnacle Bosses (75x)
Complete 1,000 explicit modifiers in Tier 14+ maps
Complete 100 invitation explicit modifiers
Grow Wombgifts (ilvl 81+, 100x)