Path of Exile Heist League Challenges Complete Guide
As usual, we have collected all information we could to make this complete guide. You will read about all Heist Challenges with tips and tricks. Learn how to achieve the needed number of challenges to get desired rewards.
There are 40 challenges in PoE. Some are easy to obtain during levelling, others are harder or almost impossible to achieve. In our Path of Exile Heist League Challenges Complete Guide you will read the tips that will help you do as many PoE challenges as you can even all 40 if that is your goal.
Our guide is presented in the rating difficulty list. That means that we have divided the full Heist challenges list into four difficulties: easy (the most part of them you’ll do while levelling), normal (you can obtain them with a minimal effort), hard (you’ll need to try and repeat several times to do them), very hard (you’ll need to farm numerous maps and know and be able to kill end-game bosses). If you want to get 20 challenge completed you can combine challenges from different difficulty levels to pick the most appropriate ones for you.
Easy Difficulty Heist Challenges
As we have already said you’ll see them get completed while you play and level-up your champion. If you finish the last act you’d probably have all the following 12 challenges completed.
Prepared for Battle
Complete each of the following Encounters.
Defeat Merveil, the Twisted in The Cavern of Anger while wearing a Sapphire Ring
Defeat Vaal Oversoul in The Ancient Pyramid while wearing a Topaz Ring
Defeat Piety in The Lunaris Temple Level 2 while wearing a Sapphire Ring and a Topaz Ring
Sapphire Ring is with cold resists and Topaz Ring is with lightning resists. You can buy them from vendor in towns.
Complete Heist Encounters I
Complete each of the following Encounters.
Open a Smuggler’s Cache
Purchase a Contract from Whakano, the Barber
Complete a Contract
Complete a Grand Heist
You can read more about this in our Heist Mechanics guide here.
Complete these Quests
Complete each of the following quests.
The Dweller of the Deep In Act 1, kill THE DEEP DWELLER in the Flooded Depths (from the Lower Submerged Passage).
A Fixture of Fate In Act 3, collect all the GOLDEN PAGES in the Archives, then give to Siosa.
The King’s Feast In Act 5, kill UTULA in the Ruined Square which located at the south-east of the map.
The Silver Locket In Act 7, collect SILVER LOCKET in the Broken Bridge, then give to Weylam Roth.
Queen of the Sands In Act 9, kill SHAKARI at The Oasis.
Defeat these Act Bosses I
Defeat each of the following Unique Act Bosses.
Act 1: Merveil, the Twisted
Act 2: Vaal Oversoul
Act 3: Dominus, Ascendant
Act 4: Malachai, The Nightmare
Act 5: Kitava, the Insatiable
You should be managed to kill them easily. even if you face difficulties ask someone to help it will still count.
Defeat these Act Bosses II
Defeat each of the following Unique Act Bosses.
Act 6: Tsoagoth, The Brine King
Act 7: Arakaali, Spinner of Shadows
Act 8: Lunaris, Eternal Moon and Solaris, Eternal Sun
Act 9: The Depraved Trinity
Act 10: Kitava, the Insatiable
They are a part of the main questline, so you cannot skip them. Again you can ask for help in case of difficulties.
Complete Heist Encounters III
Complete a Heist Contract in each of the following areas.
Bunker
Smuggler’s Den
Laboratory
Repository
Prohibited Library
Tunnels
Underbelly
Records Office
Mansion
All of these contracts drop randomly from smuggler’s caches or from monsters. None of them are rare so you’ll definitely find all of the types easily.
Complete Vendor Recipes
Complete vendor recipes to receive each of the following items. A vendor recipe is when you trade a specific pattern of items to a vendor, not when you buy items from his/her purchase screen.
Scroll of Wisdom – Sell a Vendor a blacksmith’s whetstone/armourer’s scrap
Chromatic Orb – Sell a Vendor equipment that contains 3 different colours sockets linked together.
Jeweller’s Orb – Sell a Vendor equipment that contains 6 sockets.
Glassblower’s Bauble – Sell a Vendor a set of flasks with a total of 40% quality or a 20% quality flask.
Gemcutter’s Prism – Sell a Vendor a set of gems with a total of 40% quality, or a 20% quality skill gem.
Chaos Orb – Sell a Vendor a full set rare item with their item level between 60 to 74.
Cartographer’s Chisel – Sell a Vendor a Stone Hammer/Rock Breaker/Gavel with 20% quality and a map.
Any Map – Sell a Vendor 3 same type of maps.
Any Sextant – Sell a Vendor 3 same tier of sextants (except awakened, because is the highest tier).
Divine Orb – Sell a Vendor equipment that contains 6 links.
In case you want to learn more details about vendor recipes read this.
Modify Heist Contracts
Use each of the following currency items to modify Heist Contracts.
Orb of Transmutation
Orb of Alteration
Orb of Chance
Orb of Alchemy
Chaos Orb
Regal Orb
Just use all of these orbs on one or different contracts to complete.
Defeat Heist Unique Monsters
Defeat each of the following Unique Heist monsters.
Head Enforcer
Security Specialist
Flesh Sculptor
Corpse Stitcher
Backbreaker
Tormentor
Loyalguard Mk 4
GR8B0-Y
Just clear heist contracts until you meet all of them. They spawn randomly, but they are not rare, so you’ll complete this challenge in no time.
Complete Grand Heists
Complete each of the following objectives relating to Grand Heists.
Reveal a Room or Wing on a Heist Blueprint
Complete a Grand Heist which has at least three Wings revealed
Complete a Grand Heist while at least six Rogues are recruited
We have described all these steps with every detail in the guide that you can see below.
Obtain each of the following reward types from Secure Lockers, Ornate Crates, Small Bronze Chests or Rusted Receptacles.
Currency
Armour
Weapons
Jewellery
Maps
Divination Cards
Stacked Decks
Gems
Unique Items
Prophecies
Essences
Every rogue specialist influences the type of rewards that you can occur on the heist. Use cheat sheet from our Heist Rogues guide to get what you want.
Equip Experimented Base Types
Equip Experimented Base Types in each of the following item slots.
Weapon
Shield
Ring
Amulet
Belt
You will need to complete a grand heist in order to find experimental base equipment. The list of all items you can find here. Or you can buy any cheap item to complete this challenge.
Normal Difficulty Heist Challenges
These challenges are hardy autocomplete as the previous ones. Here you’ll need to do some research, but they are also pretty easy to obtain.
Complete Encounters I
Complete each of the following Encounters.
Defeat a Rogue Exile It is a monster that looks like another player. He has specific abilities and drops a set of equipment when killed. You can craft a mao with additional exiles. Also, they usually appear during levelling.
Gain the Acceleration Shrine buff Spawns randomly, just be sure to activate all the shrines you see.
Modify an Arcanist’s Strongbox When you see Arcanist strongbox, use any currency on it (just like on any other item), it can be alchemy or even scroll of wisdom. This type of strongboxes drops currency items.
Use a Remnant of Corruption on an Essence Monolith When you see a frozen encounter use Remnant of Corruption on the central figure to modify it. You can also see this cheat sheet to learn more about essences.
Complete Heist Encounters II
Complete each of the following Encounters.
Sell a Heist Target to Faustus, the Fence
Escape from a Heist Contract with the Heist Target within 45 seconds of lockdown beginning
Equip a Heist Trinket
Again we wrote all the tips about Heist League mechanics in our guide below. Also, you’ll find there more information about trinkets.
Complete a Prophecy Chain A chain prophecy means prophecies that reward key fragments at the end of their “chapter” prophecy. Seek prophecy from Navali until you find needed. Also, you can buy the last prophecy from the chain sealed from another player, or drop from another league mechanic that rewards a “prophecy item”. You can farm them in Heists in perception contracts.
Complete a Betrayal Safehouse After you meet Jun in Act 9 start completing all tasks to defeat the immortal syndicate. This can be tricky if you don’t know it’s mechanics. Try find answers here.
Defeat The Vaal Omnitect in the Temple of Atzoatl You’ll meet Alva in Act 7. Your job is to open at least one root to the top of the temple to reach and kill the boss.
Defeat a Possessed Unique monster When you meet a Tournament spirit kite it on a unique monster. But it is the hardest way. The easiest way is to buy Possessed Foe prophecy and fulfil it. Or you can try to upgrade Alva’s room with tournament spirits to level three. In that case, all guards (and they are unique) will appear Possessed in the temple.
Complete Twinned Maps
Complete 10 of the following 16 Map Tiers while they have the Twinned Modifier. Maps are completed by killing their Unique Bosses.
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
Tier 4
Tier 5
Tier 6
Tier 7
Tier 8
Tier 9
Tier 10
Tier 11
Tier 12
Tier 13
Tier 14
Tier 15
Tier 16
You will need to craft Twinned mode (Area contains two Unique Bosses) on a map of the needed tier. Use alterations until you get this mode, or find it on Poe trade. But remember to be carful as it will be twice harder to kill them.
Heist Enchant Modification
Equip Weapons or Body Armour which have 10 of the following 14 Heist Enchantment modifiers on them.
Life
Defence
Mana
Resistance
Attribute
Physical
Fire
Lightning
Cold
Chaos
Caster Damage
Speed
Critical
Ailment
You can see the full list of enchantments in our guide here. To get them you need farm grand heists or buy them from other players.
Equip Heist Rogues
Fully equip each Heist Rogue with Rare items.
Karst, the Lockpick
Niles, the Interrogator
Huck, the Soldier
Tibbs, the Giant
Nenet, the Scout
Vinderi, the Dismantler
Tullina, the Catburglar
Gianna, the Master of Disguise
Isla, the Engineer
We have a cheat sheet that will help you not only equip your rogues with random items but do it with wisdom do benefit from them. Read our guide below to learn how.
Turn in Divination card sets of the following sizes to Tasuni or Navali.
1
2 or 3
4 or 5
6 or 7
8 or 9
10 or more
Use the table below to complete this challenge. You can collect them yourself or buy on poe trade.
Type
Best Choice
1
The Void, The Heroic Shot
2 or 3
The Doppelganger, The Lover
4 or 5
Her Mask, The Carrion Crow
6 or 7
The Calling
8 or 9
Rain of Chaos, The Web
10 or more
The Lich
Also, you can define other appropriate sets of divination cards. But these are easier to get. If you decide to collect them yourself farm Perception and Deception heist contracts.
Alternate Quality Experiments
Complete each of the following objectives pertaining to Alternate Quality Gems.
Equip a gem with Alternate Quality Alternate quality gems have a special name, such as Anomalous, Divergent, & Phantasmal. Each has their own different effects on the gem-quality stat. You can see the list of active skills alternate gems and passive alternate gems via mentioned links.
Level a gem with Alternate Quality up to level 20 If you don’t have such gem, buy such gem with a maximum of level 19 and level it to 20th level. Note that you need to level it yourself.
Corrupt a gem with Alternate Quality into a level 21 gem Here is the list from Trade with the cheapest gems that will come handy. Buy, use Vaal orb, repeat until you get to level 21 gem.
Have a socketed gem with Alternate Quality that has at least 40% Quality Craft it yourself (farm grand heists types Repository or Tunnels) or buy Replica Voideye (+30% to Quality of Socketed Gems) to succeed quicker.
Complete Heist Encounters IV
Complete each of the following objectives pertaining to Heist encounters.
Complete Contracts (0/250)
Complete Grand Heists (0/25)
Reveal Rooms (0/300)
Reveal Wings (0/60)
Easy as pie, but it will take long time to complete such amount of them.
Acquire Replica Unique Items
Acquire Replica Unique Items from Heist Areas for each of the following item slots. You can trade them away afterwards.
Weapon
Shield or Quiver
Body Armour
Helmet
Gloves
Boots
Ring
Amulet
Belt
Flask
You must do it yourself. So farm Laboratory or Prohibited Library Grand Heists to get them.
Complete Unique Maps
Complete any 15 of the following 19 Unique Maps on your Atlas. A Map is completed by killing its Unique Boss or Bosses if it has any. Maps without Unique Bosses are completed by opening specific Unique Chests.
Vaults of Atziri
Maelström of Chaos
The Coward’s Trial
Acton’s Nightmare
Poorjoy’s Asylum
Mao Kun
Oba’s Cursed Trove
Olmec’s Sanctum
Death and Taxes
Whakawairua Tuahu
Hall of Grandmasters
The Vinktar Square
Caer Blaidd, Wolfpack’s Den
The Putrid Cloister
Hallowed Ground
The Twilight Temple
Pillars of Arun
Perandus Manor
Doryani’s Machinarium
You can complete any of them actually. But there are 4 that are hard to complete or to obtain. So we recommend you skip Hall Of Grandmaster, Perandus Manor, The Putrid Cloister, and Doryani’s Machinarium. The prices can change so you can check them yourself.
To get unique maps faster get The Encroaching Darkness divination card that will provide you with a random unique map.
Complete Heist Quests
Complete each of the following Heist Quests.
Contract: Stolen Lockpicks
Contract: Karst’s Revenge
Contract: Credit Where Credit’s Due
Contract: Finding Opal
Contract: Opal’s Jewels
Contract: Enoch’s Whereabouts
Contract: Enoch’s Remains
Contract: Grocery List
Contract: The Vinderi Bomb
Contract: The Nameless Play
Contract: The Finest Costumes
Contract: The Wedding Dress
Contract: Disengagement
Contract: Rational Tools
Contract: A Mundane Sample
They drop from Smuggler’s Cache complete them as soon as they drop and continue farming maps to get new ones. They drop randomly but will not repeat if you completed it ones successfully.
Hard Difficulty Heist Challenges
These challenges may cause more difficulties and extra effort to complete them. Such as extra farm of content and tactics and mechanics on killing end-game bosses.
Defeat the Conquerors of the Atlas
Defeat each of the following Conquerors of the Atlas.
Baran, The Crusader
Veritania, The Redeemer
Al-Hezmin, The Hunter
Drox, The Warlord
Sirus, Awakener of Worlds
The first four of them you will meet when you’ll start to explore the Atlas (Zana and Kirac will give you quests for finding and killing them). Then you will continue to kill them in regions effected by watchstones. After you kill the first four exiles in regions effected by all four watchstones you’ll get the access to fight Sirus. Just follow Zana’s and Kirac’s quest-lines to do everything right. If you fail to do it from the first try, you’ll need to kill those other four exiles again to get your way to Sirus for the next try. we recommend you watch some tactics guides and videos to kill Sirus as he is a tricky one.
Complete Encounters III
Complete each of the following Encounters.
Defeat Leif, the Swift-Handed in Castle Ruins Map while you are Blinded Tier5 Castle Ruins Map, wait for smoke mine that’ll blind you every 5 seconds and kill while you are blinded.
Defeat The High Templar in Villa Map without being affected by Cold Beam Tier3 Villa Map, one of the totems that raised by the boss will deal cold degen damage on the player instead of lightning, so try to stay far away from its totem or destroy them before killing the boss.
Defeat Oak the Mighty in Mesa Map while you are Taunted Tier3 Mesa Map, the boss will use some warcry skill that’ll taunt player, so just try always to stay near the boss to gain that taunt effect then only kill the boss.
Defeat Jorus, Sky’s Edge in Temple Map while he is channelling Scorching Ray Tier3 Temple Map, the scorching ray is a bit dangerous to tank, so try to do it at the lower-tier map to able survive the boss skill. Just stay in front of the boss then wait till it starts channelling it’s scorching ray then only burst your damage kill the boss to complete this challenge.
Complete Encounters IV
Complete four of the following five Encounters.
Complete Abysses (0/50)
Interact with Shrines (0/150)
Successfully complete Blight encounters (0/50)
Pass through Delirium Mirrors (0/50)
Open Maps with Fortune Favours the Brave (0/30)
Just farm maps and make sure to complete these encounters. The last one you can do by donation chaos when you open the map.
Achieve Ascension
Use the Ascendancy Device in all 4 Labyrinths.
The Labyrinth
The Cruel Labyrinth
The Merciless Labyrinth
The Eternal Labyrinth
We have a great guide about Labyrinths that will help you complete this challenge.
Complete 30 Red Tier Rare Maps while they have 8 mods. Red Tier Maps include Tiers 11 to 16. Maps having 8 mods is a potential outcome of Vaal Orb corruption. These Maps are completed by killing their Unique Bosses. Sextants, Scarabs and Zana mods do not count towards the mod count of this challenge.
Use Vaal Orb on a rare map to get 8 modes. But it will be tough, so ask for help to clear it. Also, you can buy an 8 mode red map here.
Level Heist Jobs
Level each of the following Heist Jobs to level 5.
Lockpicking
Brute Force
Perception
Demolition
Counter-Thaumaturgy
Trap Disarmament
Agility
Deception
Engineering
Farm Contracts of the most possible high level to get more experience points. Read our Rogues guide for more tips.
You can do both types of bonus on any map you clear. Open the Atlas point a mouse on the map and check the requirements to make the bonus completed. All bonus objectives you can get from magic or higher quality maps (excluding unique maps, they can be white). As for the Awakening bonus, to get this type of bonus you will need to clear a map with a specifically required tier and corresponding awakening level (every 4 Watchstones socketed anywhere in the atlas will give you one level).
Defeat Unique Contracts
Complete each of the following Unique Heist Contracts.
Contract: Breaking the Unbreakable
Contract: Heart of Glory
Contract: Death to Darnaw
All these contracts are available as in-game drop right now. You can farm them yourself or buy for around 20 chaos orbs.
Defeat The Twins
Seek out and defeat The Twins.
Seek for Contract: The Twins (Vengeful Contract). Prepare yourself for a tough fight. If you face difficulties killing it or you don’t want to risk it, wait until next 3.12.5 patch when all the bugs will be fixed to complete this challenge.
Complete Encounters V
Complete each of the following Encounters.
Defeat The Hallowed Husk in Palace Map after it has cast Blood Rain at least 3 times and without having stood in the Proximity Shield bubble – stand outside it’s Proximity Shield bubble at least 3 times before kills him and don’t forget to use a flask that removes bleeding.
Defeat the Trio of Bosses in Vaal Temple Map by killing K’aj A’alai last – kill them in the right sequence. First, kill K’aj Y’ara’az, then K’aj Q’ura and leave K’aj A’alai for the end.
Defeat Aulen Greychain in Fungal Hollow Map while both you and him are affected by Immortal Call – typical to Challenge Encounters III, lower his HP, wait till he uses Immortal Call then use Immortal Call yourself and kill the boss.
Defeat Chayula, Who Dreamt without being hit by Chaos Cyclone projectiles and after they have used Chaos Cyclone at least 3 times – the easiest way to kill it is to leave the room with portal every time boss uses Chaos Cyclone and return when it ends.
Defeat Heist Bosses Conditionally
Complete each of the following Encounters.
Defeat Admiral Darnaw without being hit by Ocean’s Wave
Defeat The Unbreakable without being affected by Magnetic Storm
Defeat Nashta, The Usurper while affected by Emberstorm and without detonating any Volatile Emberstorms
The most effective way is to burst them with high damage before they even start casting anything and try to dodge everything.
Very Hard Difficulty Heist Challenges
To complete the following four challenges you will need as many time as one week and a decent build for completing the top end-game content and bosses.
Heist Map Grind
Complete Maps with a total of 75,000% Item Quantity from modifiers and additional sources, such as Sacrifice Fragments. This does not include any quantity bonuses from your items or party.
To get high quantity maps:
Use cartographer chisel for 20% quality
Use Orb of Alchemy to roll more mods to increase quantity
Use Sacrifice fragments up to three per map
The alternative way is farm Olmec’s Sanctum unique map. Because it rolls will high item quantity by default.
Defeat The Twins Conditionally
Complete each of the following Encounters.
Defeat The Twins without becoming Immobilised – avoid stepping on ice trap.
Defeat The Twins without causing The Twins to swap positions – focus only one to avoid them to swap. As when melee twin reaches 75% HP it swaps. So kill the twin with a crossbow first.
Defeat The Twins by killing Vix Vox first – Wearing Light-gold clothing.
Defeat The Twins by killing Vinny Vox first – Wearing Light-blue clothing.
Complete Deadly Encounters
Complete four of the following six deadly Encounters.
The Shaper
Farrul, First of the Plains
Aul, the Crystal King
High Templar Venarius in The Cortex
Uber Elder
Mastermind at an area level of 83
To complete this Heist Challenge you will need a good build and experience of killing end-game bosses.
Complete Endgame Grinds
Complete any 4 of these encounters the specified number of times.
Level 100
Open Chests at the end of the Endgame Labyrinth (0/500)
Complete Syndicate Safehouses (0/40)
Complete Breach Domains (0/40)
Defeat Factions in the Domain of Timeless Conflict (0/50)
Complete Heists or Grand Heists at an area level of 68 or higher (0/750)
No need to do all of them but choose 4 the most appropriate and easy for you. We recommend skipping reaching level 100 as it is time-consuming. As for the other ones do the ones you think are the easiest for you.