Ultimatum

The Ultimatum farming strategy is an extremely difficult and rewarding endgame strategy. The goal is to produce as many Inscribed Ultimatums as possible, as these frequently provide Divine Orbs or expensive Divination Cards. It is very common for people to make bespoke builds for this Farming Strategy or to play in groups.

Requirements

• Ultimatum requires a build with a massive amount of defence or damage. Use the Ultimatum Farming Guide to check which negative affixes that can brick your map.

Set-Up

Map Choice

• Tier 16 Jungle Valley Map - This is the best map in the game for most farming strategies due to it's unique interaction with Eldritch Altars. You cannot receive boss altars until you enter the boss room which increases the overall "good" modifiers. This isn't essential for Ultimatum but is a small boost to your overall returns.

Map Device

• Eldritch Influence - Eater of Worlds, be very careful which player related altars you click when using altars in this strategy.

Fragments

Below are the optimal scarabs to use for the Ultimatum Farming Strategy;

• Ultimatum Scarab of Bribing
• Ultimatum Scarab of Bribing
• Ultimatum Scarab of Catalysing
• Ultimatum Scarab of Inscription
• Domination Scarab

Atlas Passive Tree

Ultimatum nodes provide;

• 100% Chance to encounter Ultimatum in your map.
• Less chance for encounters to be "Stone Circles."
• Chance for Rewards to be Duplicated.
• Inscribed Ultimatums are more likely to be Currency and Divination Card rewards.

Eldritch Altars provide a constant flow of currency items.

Shrines should be clicked before doing the encounter, together with duration nodes on the tree they persist for the entire length of the Ultimatum Encounter in most cases.

Gameplay

Running Maps

Step 1 - Clear the map and spawn as many Eldritch Altars as possible.
Step 2 - Click all the available Domination Shrines.
Step 3 - Find a complete the Ultimatum Encounter.

It is very likely that you fail some of the time, this is a difficult farm with many different variables that increase the difficulty. Learn which negative affixes are most punishing for your build and avoid them as much as possible.

DO NOT BE AFRAID TO WALK AWAY WITH ANY LOOT YOU HAVE ALREADY EARNED.

Examples of negative affixes you should avoid;

• Stalking Ruin
• Sawblades
• Reduced Recovery
• Blood Altar
• Less Cooldown Recovery
• Treacherous Auras
• Drought

Loot Breakdown

Use our Bulk Selling Guide to learn how to sell your items or list them on PoExchange. Here are the drops you should sell with this strategy;

Eldritch Altar

Sell the following eldritch crafting currencies. Selling these is easiest by listing them on the trade site in large quantities using bulk selling methods.

• Lesser Eldritch Ember
• Greater Eldritch Ember
• Grand Eldritch Ember

Sell rarer eldritch crafting orbs at the end of farming sessions even in individual stack sizes on the trade site.

• Eldritch Chaos Orb
• Eldritch Exalted Orb
• Eldritch Orb of Annulment

Sell eldritch invitations at the end of farming sessions using the trade site, use tabs listed with a bulk price if you have multiple.

• Incandescent Invitation
• Polaric Invitation

Ultimatum

Inscribed Ultimatums make up almost the entirety of your profits. They do however require some micromanagement to extract the maximum value. These provide the following rewards;

• Currency
• Divination Card
• Unqiue Items

Inscribed Ultimatums can be vendored 5:1 for a replacement, set aside any Inscribed Ultimatum with the "more Monster Life" modifier and 5:1 all the other bad rewards. Bad rewards are any that do not meet your minimum criteria for completing an Inscribed Ultimatum, at least 20 Chaos Orbs in value is a common starting point.

The reason to save "more Monster Life" Inscribed Ultimatum is that community tested has shown that vendoring 5 Inscribed Ultimatums with the same "monster life" modifier yields a currency reward based on the amount of additional life they provide;

• 30% Increased Monster Life - Up to 1 Divine Orb
• 70% Increased Monster Life - Up to 4 Divine Orb
• 120% Increased Monster Life - Up to 8 Divine Orb
• 200% Increased Monster Life - T0 Unique , Mirror of Kalandra

The rewards showcased are more common if you vendor 5 of the corresponding Inscribed Ultimatums.

Credits

Written by Milkybk_
Reviewed by Tenkiei, Zen_M