PoE 3.25 Ultimatum Farming: Profitability and Strategy Insights

Ultimatum farming can yield significant profits, primarily from catalysts, but requires a strong build and understanding of mechanics.

### Ultimatum: Low-Investment Strategy Analysis
* 💰  Ultimatum loot drops have been slightly buffed this league, but the real money comes from catalysts, particularly **Tainted, Prismatic, and Fertile Catalysts**, which can sell well in bulk.
* 📊  In a test of 100 maps, the player made a profit of **94.5 divines**, with an average of **16.2 divines per hour**, excluding the potential value of Hate Forge drops.
* 🏆  The strategy involves running Ultimatum encounters with specific Scarabs and map modifiers to **maximize Catalyst drops**, with a focus on **low investment and quick map completion**.
* 🛡️  The player's build is crucial, requiring **good damage, mobility, and defenses**, especially against Ruin mechanics, which can **end the encounter if stacked to 7**.
* 🔮  The strategy heavily relies on **Catalyst prices**, which can fluctuate, and has **relatively poor gold returns** compared to other strategies.
* 📈  The player recommends this Ultimatum strategy for **established builds**, not league starters, and highlights the importance of **testing and adapting to different encounter modifiers**.
* 🎲  The player also experimented with a high-investment strategy involving Catalyst crafting, but found it **less profitable** than the **low-investment approach**.
* 🧪  Overall, the player considers Ultimatum to be an **underrated mechanic** and plans to **continue using this strategy for a few more days**.

hey, gu Pon here and to talk about ultimatum. So, over the last few days or so, I've been running quite a bit of ultimatum. I've, uh, kind of been test running it before, and at some point, I thought, why not just do an actual test set of 100 maps? And I've done that without ultimatum scarabs or catalyzing, which are right now round about one Divine per, and make the Strat a lot more unapproachable. I also did a test run of this, which I'm going to talk about at the end, a little bit smaller sample size, but first, let's talk about low investment ulti. So, we got a small buff this league, m is an ultimum drop loot. Once again, if you think that's why I'm here, and I'm here to tell you, wow, all of a sudden, they drop some crazy loot again. Not really. They don't drop bad loot. Now, I've dropped in 100 Maps like three tier 17s, a few Maps, one Divine that I think

came from the drops itself, so it's like noticeable, but it's like a drop in the bucket. The real money here are, as always, catalysts, and um, there's a few different types of these. Up on top are tainted catalysts, which you can drop from the boss, which comes from the dueling Scarab, which we will talk about. But uh, yeah, mainly Prismatic Catalyst and Fertile Catalyst. Now, these sell certainly right now quite well in bulk, but just so you know, a lot of your money comes from catalyst, so it also depends on that part of the economy. Now, if you're just here to see how much money I made, I'll put the time step right here, and obviously, there's also chapters down below in terms of what we made. By far the most, and probably half of the money we made, if I remember correctly, yeah, more than half the money you make is from Catalyst. These are huge, and in case you don't know, t Catalyst, which you basically drop a stack up to 10 or even sometimes more.

I think up to 12 or so um from the boss every single time, and since we're using dualist, we get them every single time, followed by Prismatic catalysts, right, which are just absolutely huge right now. The prices here are actually not perfectly aligned with your ninja; sometimes they're actually lower than they are. For example, taina Catalyst. I just sold like a bunch for four each. F catalysts were like 12; sometimes prismatics are 13, and so on. But this completely depends on the economy. But just so you know, these are absolutely huge when it comes to your money-making capabilities, and it's nothing like hype. Like, you're not going to have a drop, and all of a sudden, you get like 10 divines. But there are like whenever a stack of fertile calist drop, that's almost a Divine. But yeah, just so you can see this, these are basically the three test Steps From The 100 runs in total. Uh, there's a lot of different stuff. I don't think

these are actually as annoying to sell as you think they are. I just didn't put them in their respective tabs, so you can kind of look at them. There are some random double corrupted or corrupted items in there as well, right? For example, this or some point-blank stuff, but I didn't really count that whatsoever. When it comes to divines, I'm pretty sure we got around about six in total. There's five here, one here, yeah, in total six divines, and I got a bunch of exalted, which makes me think either I got unlucky with divines 'cause exalts are as rare as divines are, so yeah, 17. Um, and then an no. Um, only four, I think, so maybe there's something weird going on. Maybe I got unlucky. And then we also got uniques. So for this test, I actually did not count any of these uniques here, and I also didn't even fish out the Rings. So there is this ring right here, the gold ring is called Exel Temptation, and it has a ton of different roles and

as you can see right here, it applies up to 200% of a certain quality. So, for example, for leveling, these are insane. Always by leveling Rings here that can get up to, I think, 23 or 24% increased attack speed. They have res, they have life, so if anything, you'll get two insane leveling rings from these. And I have sold Max R attack and cost speed and flat damage ones before for up to a Divine, but I did not count them. And you get quite a few of these, so for example, if I go in here and I account gold ring, you can see you'll drop like 30, 40 of them. But theoretically, it's not real money. The same can be said for these V masks right here. So, I'll just take a less egregious one. These have certain implicit and they basically give you life, Mana, energy Shield. But the most important thing about this one is you can actually still corrupt them as if they weren't corrupted, and they can turn into a different unique item. So, I'll

just do that for example here it is a chance, right? You can also remove mods and whatnot, but for example, you can get it into a different, any different unique helmet, and it gets the implicit. It gets to keep the implicit. So now have a three dragons with an implicit that is usually not possible. Now you can get some pretty fancy stuff on here. You can get mal addiction, which is straight up 10% less damage taken, and enemies have 10% increased damage taken. There's also stuff like Aura effect, and the biggest one I think is the Mana multiplier, right? Like this is one a lot of people are looking for. If you've ever seen 80% cost and reservation multiplier, you know it came from here. These also did not put into the calculation. Now, uh, this looks like a lot of mottles. They are quite achievable, uh, but they're not worth a lot this league simply because they have vek now. So I counted them at 20c, and that is about that, and then relic of the

pack is actually quite rare because it doesn't drop from the boss anymore. You only get it from the rewards now, and um, so I didn't see many of them. I saw one in total. I don't know if that's normal or maybe, yeah, whatever. We did drop a Hate Forge actually, which is currently 30 divs I think last time I checked. Um, let me check. Are they going down? Okay, I counted them at 30 divs but they are lower now. So, it's going to go up down. They were like 70 yesterday, so who the hell knows. I counted them at 30 just so you know. I'll also have a currency breakdown later without the Hate Forge. From what I've heard, one in 100 is about the average. Some people say it's more, some people say it's less. In general, there's quite a few in the economy, but that also comes from Valdos boxes, inscribed to mums. I only counted the ones where I actually got the vines. I didn't get any good diff cards, but I'm

not forcing inscribed ultimatums, so these you basically have to run, and you put in one Divine, and here comes out two divines, which also steals you a little bit of time. Yeah, these are negligible, at least for a strategy we're talking about now. In order to do this, this is not a week one currency-making video. This is, we're now in week three, basically. It needs a good build already to do this Strat. It is not the way you make your first few divines. You need a good all-rounder build. Now, when it comes to defenses, a lot of people are exaggerating how many defenses you need, but that is mostly because of certain Keystone they don't use one second. But you need good coverage and good damage, otherwise you can take like nothing. So, what I'm talking about here is ruin this wager. In case you don't know, in ulti, there's a mechanic called ruin, and there are certain special monsters that can spawn, and on hit, they will apply one

ruin to you this Keystone here also makes use of that and says so basically when you get to Seven ruin you fail your ultimatum. That is one of the ways you can fail ultimatum other than dying, and it says here ultimatum monsters apply ruin with their special abilities failing on reaching seven ruin. Ultimatum monsters and modifiers steal 50% less damage. That is crazy because being able to basically take half damage against all that stuff is amazing, but you can get those Stacks. Now a lot of people think that means every monster that hits you will apply it or every rare that hits you. That is definitely not true. You can test this out yourself. A lot of the times you will get zero ruin. This is something you'll have to test out for yourself, but just the fact that you take 50% less damage has been a complete game changer for me. What you definitely need to be though is to be mobile. The mobs I just talked about R ruin this. You have to be able to do damage to like height.

around um if you're melee. At least you have to have really good defenses or you just don't pick the ruinous stuff. We'll talk about all those downsides later. You have to be om immune and you have to be capped on chaos R. Now in order to explain everything else, I have to first show you what's going on and how this ulti looks like. So we are going to run a map now. Quantity is important because it does scale the stack size of catalyst. I'm not 100% sure what else it scales. I don't think it scales currency per se, but I know that it works on Catalyst. Um, when it comes to two other things, we're also putting in two Sac frags. They're very, very cheap and they give an extra 5% Quant per. And then we have three scarabs. We're using two different ones. The first one is ultimatum scare of bribing, which we're using two of. This gives you a ton of experience, but don't be fooled. Uh, there's a lot of other

strats that also have good experience. This just kind of makes up for the lack of experience that ultimatum usually gives. The big line down here is ultimatum encounters Grand rewards as though completing two additional rounds, which means, for example, if you do your first round, you get rewards as if you were already in number three, and so on, and it goes over 10. So, stacking these is quite good, and they are quite cheap. So, you use two of these. Very good. Then the last one here is ultimatum scar of dueling. You will always get a boss at the end, and this means that you have a chance for hate Forge. You have a chance for V masks. Maybe you get lucky on a ring or something, but in general, it's all about the tainted catalysts we talked about earlier. And, well, the lowest I dropped, I think, was like nine, and the highest I Dro usually is 12. It depends on your quantity and everything. I think it's also a little bit of RNG. These currently sell for like 4C per, but

that obviously can change, so you always get back your money. Currently, they are going up in price, but in general, I still feel like it's worth it. If it's not worth it, then I don't know, replace it with another sa FR. That is kind of up to you, either of Worlds. I actually don't know if the Alters do scale it, but I usually just take them 'cause they're kind of free. But yeah, warning, my build has pretty bad quality, as you can see. I downscaled the quality of my game as well. It looks pretty bad. That is by Design, to put as little strain as possible on the build. Now we go in, and all we do is go to the ulti, right? Like, we go straight up to the ultimatum. If you guys are interested about this build, I will be coming out with a build guide about it eventually. It's permanent V lightning strike. But yeah, you're just looking for the UL. You're not looking for anything, anything else. So on the way, if you get shrines, which are on my

Atlas passive tree as well. They will make your encounter a lot easier because most likely they will hold through the whole encounter. Because while you're waiting, you actually do not expand Shrine time. Now here we come, right here we go. So we're now at The Trial Master, and these things here are basically downsides. First, it says survive up here. There are four different modes. There is survive, there is defend attackers, there is Stone circles, and there are what's the other one chance to require protect the altar, defeat waves of monsters, right? Those are basically the same. You just kill monsters. Those are the ones you want really, really badly. Those are so goddamn easy and very quick. Survival is not as quick, but I guess we have a little bit of time to talk. And the worst one that could ever happen to you is the stone circles, the dreaded, dreaded Stone circles. I think that on the lwi investment one, it's probably worth it to simply just Port out. In my experience, it's like a one in

15 to get after you take all these other nodes, which basically make it more likely to get not Stone Circle, but okay, let's start out. So, if we have, we're going to go over these downsides right now, but you're basically just going to pick one of these, and then the ultimatum begins. Now, it will look quite easy here. The survival duration isn't quite a thing, so this will take a lot longer than some of the other ones, but you basically just get rewards here, and you pick your downside. Now, at the start, it will be kind of annoying. You will see downsides that you have to read over it. You don't remember, like, uh, what is what, but over time, this will get a lot better. Now, this is this I want to talk about right here. This is the stalking ruin. So, this is the one where, um, these monsters, it's like a blue thing that will pop up, a blue mob, and it will, if it hits you, give you one Rune stack. Um, this one is rough because if you get

to Seven. No matter how strong your build, the ultimatum is over, so you have to keep track of him. If he comes up, you do not take this one early if you have survival. If in any other mode when you just have to kill waves, it's kind of fine because the waves are over quickly. He doesn't get much chance to hit you at all, but in survival when you have to like tied around and just wait, right? You should take him very late 'cause if you take him late and you get like a few Stacks up to seven, it doesn't matter how many stacks you get. So, we're just going to uh take that and maybe take the downside later. You always have three that you can choose from, and some of the downsides actually can level up. So, maybe uh we can show that right now. I'm just going to take this blistering coal right here. Usually, I would do Unstoppable, but I'm just going to take it real quick, and uh maybe we can see that leveling up. So

Some of these downsides have levels to them. At the start, they're basically doing nothing, and then you can see there's like a golden board around it, and it gets more, and now we have blistering C3, right? It gets a little bit harder, and that will basically keep up. Now, my build is basically, I mean, it's like, yeah, I don't even have my nemesis or my progenesis yet. It doesn't really matter, but this build is just, I mean, broken beyond belief. Number four right here, right? We're just going to take a different one. Some of these get pretty ridiculous towards the end, but that is for a different section. Some of them will not really break you, but will really test your defenses. Once again, I would really recommend taking the Keystone, but yeah, in general, this is like the slowest version of the ultimatum. The stone circles are a little bit slower, but survival is basically just like walking around. As you can see right there, my HP actually went down.

a little bit. I'm going to give monsters 50 res. I don't think it really matters. Uh, they're just getting absolutely deleted. Sorry for the uh, probably bad quality of the footage. I can't really do anything about this. Uh, G did allow the build but also kind of didn't allow it. So now we're in round nine out of 10. There are 10 rounds to this and um, yeah, after round 10 um, actually we we did already round nine. So after round 10 we are getting to the boss. So what happens at the boss is all the stuff stays and you have to fight the boss in an arena with all these like weird things on the ground, right? Like for example, the cold things here or like these uh, these lightning PL on the ground that you unfortunately can't see um, and uh, yeah, here we have the boss dude. As you can see everything's here. If you have the stalker in here, don't just chill and like not think, not think about anything, right? If he's here, he's still

going to keep attacking you right now. This is the boss. He does stuff right. You have to move like to the side. Those are things you can figure out for yourself or like look at old videos of ultimatum encounters um in general. Now we killed him and uh at the end he will drop us an extra stack of catalyst because of the passive tree uh and he will drop the Catalyst themselves. So this is from the encounter itself and these are the tained Catalyst. This stack is also from the boss rewards right over here because we take Brave the tower. There's another stack. As for the passive trade there's not much to say here. There's some ultimatum nodes that are really good extra radius extra rewards um. There either no brainers or you don't take them at the end. You have a 25% chance for stuff to be duplicated. Definitely definitely insane here. Once again stay away from Stone circles. The small note here is still good cuz if you happen to get stone circles which happens like one

In 15 times, you get at least 15% radius. They're so annoying. They're basically, I don't know, maybe we can put up a picture, but you basically have to stand in these circles and wait, and then everything can basically attack you like crazy if you're a squishy build, especially. I would just pull out. It's not worth the hassle, and it takes forever. Best ones protect the alar, slaughter them all. These are so easy. They're over in literally less than a minute if you have a good build. Run is waiter. I would highly, highly recommend this. Now, I don't know if this is just from my build that I never get hit by anything. I noticed there are certain weird, I don't know, survival mobs on the ground. They're like bluish things that you might want to look out for. They count as special ability, so they can actually inflict the ruin. But otherwise, I have not ever seen it out of 100 rounds. I ripped to this one time to ruin.

so that's just what I'm going to see, and for that, you get 50% less damage taken. Something you can decide for yourself if you're already super super tanky, you don't really need it. A lot of these nodes are just filled in because I really don't need anything else. We just open the map, go to the ulti, and portal out. Just some extra power through shrines. I will say this: instead of a sacrificial fragment, as we talked about earlier, you can also put in some extra shrines if you really want to because it's going to make the encounter a lot easier. We did get like five tier 17 maps in total, so it wasn't that bad, but yeah, you definitely want map effect and quantity because it does actually influence your Catalyst stack sizes, so that's important, I guess. Remarkable relics 'cause you're still sometimes dropping some stuff, but yeah, this one, like I said, Brave the tower, super important, 30% chance for the final round to include a boss. This is

only important if you don't use the guaranteed boss Scarab, and it goes to the moon or something. But you always get a full stack of random catalysts, and those can be fertiles or prismatic. Now let's talk about the UL downsides. There are some downsides that have levels to them: 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. We're going to talk about these first and then also some of the other things right here. So these are the ones you're going to encounter almost every round. They're super common. Blistering cold is you should be ement immune. You should never get frozen or chilled. Pretty damn easy. It's the easiest is choking my asthma in my opinion. I don't know if it is hard all of a sudden if you are not chaos R capped, but you should be in general 'cause there's a lot more chaos res where that came from. But choking ma Asma, you can basically level up to five. It's like

this gas cloud that follows you around. It's basically a nothing burger. I don't know, maybe if you have no recovery, it's going to be a problem. I also don't really notice the blistering cold. It just doesn't do as much damage, and you're not getting frozen or anything. Anyways, rapidly explodes and freezes you, which shouldn't happen, right? So those two are kind of freebies. Now, uh, where is another one with different levels? So raging dead. Oh boy, this one is no fun. This one is absolutely no fun. This one deals a lot of damage. Those are basically skulls that will periodically just like shoot their fire thingy at you, and if they hit you, oh boy. Now you can mostly survive them by just going in a circle, as you kind of should do, um, and kite around, but on some builds, you just can't do that, and tanking them can be quite rough. If you're a Slayer with like 10 endurance charges, uh, or if you're a jugg or something, or just super tanky, maybe you can do them, but I would

personally, not level them further than maybe three. I usually try and leave them on two, but if they go full ham, then it's going to be an issue. After that, we have razor dance, and this is depending on your build a big deal. So, corrupted blood immunity is quite important here because these are going to apply corrupted blood, and they kind of have like a DOT behind them, but they also just, I don't know, uh, they're just nasty. They're really, really nasty. They deal a lot of damage. I would not screw around with these. I don't personally know which of these are worse because I don't really have much Fizz mitigation, so maybe they're not as bad as I make them out to be. You can try it out yourself. I do not ever level these to full. Um, that is what I would say ruin here. When you start out, there's basically just this like blue Ghost that will very slowly approach you and just try and melee you, and if it applies a ruin, that's your fault cuz

it's so goddamn slow. You can easily avoid it, but the more you level it up, the more it gets a little bit ridiculous. However, what you can do is you just level it up at the very end. And like I said, if you're on five Rune Stacks at the end, it doesn't really matter. Do remember though that he will come up in the boss room, and what can happen is you're like waiting for the boss and chilling, but meanwhile he's like slashing at you and you lose the round. This one completely depends on your build, how mobile you are, but usually you can level this up to three or four, and it's going to be fine. Four is maybe a little bit too risky in my opinion, but you do you. Same is kind of true for the stalking Ru actually. This is the guy with the melee attacks, and this is the guy with I think the special ability. Yeah, so these two are kind of interchangeable. You shouldn't stack too much of the ru, don't go overboard if you

have especially if you're in a survival mission. You should not take them too early. Survival takes forever. Then we have stormcaller runes, which do a lot of damage. They're on the ground, and after some time, if you remain on them, they will start exploding. And, uh, yeah, the higher you go, the less time until they start exploding, and they also get bigger. It is an issue because, uh, if you can see the ground, like, for example, with my build, you're going to run into them. I think that on a decently tanky build, you can probably survive them or just completely avoid them and not stand in them. I don't think it's as big as the skulls or, like, the razor dance, but it is still something to remember. Yeah, and those are basically the ones you will encounter almost every single time, and all these other ones kind of depend on what your build does, right? So, some of them are going to be really good, but I'm going to talk about some specific ones which are absolute cancer. The first

one you should never ever take unless you're the tankiest build alive is limited Arena. The encounter area will be much smaller. What you have to understand is that all the stuff that you picked will also be way further together. If you have stalker dudes, they are going to hit you now all of a sudden, right? If you have these like push, these like blistering colds, they will always hit you 'cause you have to stand in them. The big deal is, for example, storm caller runes. There's nowhere to go now. It is an absolute cancer, and it will also you like, it's just really, really rough. There's also reduced recovery, which very little builds can actually do. Is there anything else that's maybe a little bit more cryptic? Rare mes have two additional modifiers. I don't really feel a difference, going to be completely honest. I don't think it's a big deal. Hindering flasks is like the freest thing ever. Using a flask hinders you for 50%. I mean, come on. There are some of

these effects that actually say for the reminder of the counter damage taken will slowly increase. This depends on when you take them. It can be harsher; it can be easier, so kind of time them yourselves. Monster hits are always crit strikes if you're crit immune. Anyways, that's fine. This one here, a ring of blood surrounds the altar, dealing heavy physical damage over time. Big tip here: the first one is kind of free 'cause it's very close to the altar. The second one can almost take the whole area, and if you're, for example, in a boss area, you will have to be like on the very edge of the screen to even, even not get hit by the dot. And fist dots are no joke, so keep that in mind. Other than that, there's some almost undoable ones that cannot gain flash charges, and everything else just depends on your build. Now, in terms of how much did we make in 100 Maps, I have all the investment right here: 200 bribing, 100 dueling, chisels, the maps themselves, rolls, which is

basically just yeah chaos orbs. We did not do eight mods, but I'll talk about that in the higher investment that we're going to talk about in a second. Sack frag total investment was 23.3 divines for 100 Maps. I did have two times Stone Circle, which I actually portal out, and I had two bricks. Actually, I just looked it up. I did these Stone circles. I just put it here in the notes because Stone circles take longer, so that will influence the time it takes. I did not include any of the Val masks or any of the Rings or anything like that. I included motle, I included hate Forge, I included inscribed ultis, but only the ones that actually give divines or good diff cards, which we didn't get any. Total earned 117.8 divines. That is a profit of 94.5 divines. Now my average time was a little bit less than 3 minutes per map, but I did put a little bit on top because I know this build is

like an outlier, so 17.14 Maps per hour with a 3.5-minute average per map. 100 Maps, like I said, I would personally just, I don't know if you get stor circles, just po out probably. Uh, I don't, I think you would probably make more money per hour, but maybe I'm. Maybe I'm wrong on that. Um, on 100 Maps, 5.8 hours in total for a total of 16.2 divines per hour with no hate Forge attached. That would be 11.1 div per hour. I personally think even if you believe it's rarer than a one in 100, you should still include it because we're literally using dueling scarabs, and one of the reasons is to get hate Forge. So, it would be kind of a weird moronic thing to not at least acknowledge that it exists, but whatever you want to say. Somewhere in between here is the truth. Now let's talk about some downsides here, though, because the returns that I just talked about, the

money seems good, right? For tier 16 strap, that is good returns, but it depends harshly on Catalyst prices. These will go up and down depending on whatever happens, how many people do the Strat, so keep that in mind. It has really bad gold returns now. It's not nothing, but it is not that much. So, for example, today I farmed like 377k gold. In the same time, I would have probably gotten like 600-700k gold from any other Strat. So, if you care about that stuff, then I don't know if that's the right Strat for you, or maybe you can incorporate it into something else, because I literally skipped to the ulti and then just went out. But at the end of the ulti, you get like a th000 gold. It's nothing, right? For how much time you spend, but ultis are also incredibly hard. I don't think you can really do this with your leak starter unless you already put in like 50 to 100 div vines, or you're playing an endgame build.

absolute juicer, and you know what you're doing. Uh, one thing I will say is that you get the gist of it at the start. You might even break one or two, but after some time, it's just like you get into the flow, and it's quite easy. Keystone, once again, I'll repeat this. This is something you need to test out and just kind of figure out for yourself. Maybe you break, and you notice, Oh, it's not for me, but this is not as big of a downside as it might seem, and you should definitely use it. And, uh, yeah, I didn't account for the V mask. This is actually a pretty fun Gamba. For example, if you can get the aura effect on certain or, or the, uh, socketed reservation on certain of these, uh, of these unique helmets, then it's actually kind of cool. Let's just gamble another one real quickly here. Uh, maybe we get something H. We changed it to reservation. Boom. Oh, okay. That's unfortunate. All right, so this one went into nothing. The other one went into

three dragons. We're probably going to Gambar the rest one. Maybe we hit something good, maybe not. Now then, I also did 50 runs of the high investment one, which revolves around the Scarab buff catalyzing. Now there are two strats right now. One of them we already know is pretty good, and it's kind of Gamba. It's a lot more high investment that uses first the catalyzing, which is currently like a Divine each to turn all your rewards into catalysts. And then this one turns all your Catalyst rewards into inscribed ultimatums. Now it seems like this is pretty rewarding. I personally cannot say because I didn't test the inscription out. What I actually wanted to test is if the catalyzing itself is good, and the rewards are not bad, but they are not as good as the low investment one, in fact. So um, we basically invested a ton. You have to invest 68.2 divs, and you only get 96 divs back. Uh, it's 9.5 divs an hour.

because it is incredibly fast. We basically took exactly the same rate as we did on the other one, so this one is straight up worse. We did not drop a hate Forge here, to be fair. We can maybe say that it's like a 50/50 chance or whatever and assign it a value or whatever, but in general, I think people probably are better off with the inscription. But this is something I'll have to test, and I personally don't want to screw around with inscriptions because inscriptions are just kind of annoying. What you have to realize if you do this Strat is you're going to be printing these, and you actually have to do them because they don't sell all that well. Important to note is you can free to one them once again, but this will be a lot more RNG but potentially more output. But just as an experiment, and maybe you'll say, Yeah, no Sherlock, but don't just do this without the inscriptions, mainly because this was still okay returns, but now all your money is catalyst, like literally 90% of

your money is a catalyst, so now you're completely a slave to the Catalyst market, and you're probably going to inflate it as well. If you run this all day, you're just going to destroy the economy, and then you will just lose money. Now then, small tip here: what can you do with a lot of these shitty catalysts? Do I actually have to sell them? No, you don't. There's a 3 to 1 recipe. Now, if you do this 3 to 1 recipe, one of these will be filled, and that's a total of 60 slots here, and you will get back 60 catalysts. So, you can only put in up to 180 to actually fill up this inventory. So, what you'll basically do at the end of the farming session is you'll come here and you sell 180 of the same one to get exactly one inventory back. You click accept, accept, and now you got, for example, three fertile catalysts back, and a lot of other stuff, and you will basically just roll that until you get

the ones that are actually selling. You can also just sell the ones that aren't worth as much. It's just going to take way too long. The big money right now is first up fertiles, which go for, uh, I think 14 or 15 per Divine. Yep, 14, 15 per Divine. And then also, um, Prismatic Catalyst, which should go for 12, 13 l a check. Yeah, 12, 13. These are the big hitters, and that's what you kind of want to vendor into. When it comes to the attribute ones, the intrinsic ones are usually okay to sell. I will probably not vendor these. They're like 110, 112. Also, vendoring just, I don't know, it doesn't take that long. It takes like 20ish minutes or something if you had a big farming session or something. Uh, unstables don't really sell all that well, but they're still not worth to be vendored. Uh, they kind of sell. I would probably sell them for chaos though. And these ones I actually don't know, so some

of these will not sell for divines at all. These two are a little bit of question marks, and all of these, yeah, you just have to check rates and decide for yourself. The big thing is Tainted catalysts sell quite well because people need a lot of them. They're like a 40 to a div, so like kind of 4ish chaos right now. But in conclusion, I really like this Strat. It is currently, I think, my favorite non-tier 17 Strat in general. It leverages good builds, so it's not good for starting your character. You're probably better off doing something like Essences or Beasts for that, but it can leverage an already established build, and you don't have to run tier 17s, and it makes good returns. 16 divs an hour for me, 11 per hour if you don't count the hate Forge, but on the flip side, it does depend quite a bit on the Catalyst market. Around about half your returns are once again from Catalyst, and it also has bad Gold return, so if you

want to fully engage with the league mechanic, and if you think engaging with that will reap you more rewards, then yeah, there's better strats out there in general. I thought it was really fun, and I'll probably do it another two to three days. And uh, yeah, in general, um, cool experiment. I think ulti is quite underrated right now. I've heard some weird things said by people, which is why I wanted to try this out, because um, yeah, the ground loot, like I said, isn't a big deal that you get your ground loot back. It's like you drop a few, I don't know, like a few tier 17 maps here and there. You drop maybe one Divine in 100 runs or whatever. Yeah, it's a Dro in the bucket, but other than that, I hope you enjoyed the video, and uh, see you next time. [Music]

Don't Sleep on Ultimatum! | Full Atlas Guide

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The speaker has been running a test set of 100 maps for the Ultimatum, without using scarabs or catalysts.

The main source of profit has been the catalysts, particularly the tainted, prismatic, and fertile types, which are currently selling well in bulk.

The test run yielded a total of six divines, 17 exalted, and numerous unique items, with the speaker highlighting the potential for valuable leveling rings and the ability to corrupt unique items for additional profit.

Unique Helmet Implicits and Currency Making Strategies

Unique helmets can retain their implicit mods when removed, allowing for powerful combinations.

The current league's valuable items, like the Hate Forge and relics, have fluctuating prices and are not abundant.

A successful currency-making strategy in the game requires a good build, mobile gameplay, and effective use of the ruin mechanic to mitigate damage.

Ultimatum encounters provide grand rewards by stacking bonuses, making them cost-effective.

The Scar of Dueling ensures a boss fight at the end, offering chances for valuable drops.

Players can benefit from shrines on the Atlas passive tree, and the different encounter modes offer varying difficulties and rewards.

The downsides in the ultimatum encounter increase in difficulty, with a broken build making it easier to progress.

The boss fight at the end of the 10 rounds is challenging, with the arena filled with dangerous effects.

Key strategies include taking the right passive tree nodes, avoiding stone circles, and using shrines for extra power.

The UL downsides have different levels of severity, with common ones including Blistering Cold and Choking My Asma, which are relatively easy to manage.

Raging Dead and Razor Dance pose a greater threat, dealing significant damage and applying harmful effects, making them crucial to avoid or limit their levels.

Ruin and Stalking Ru offer slow, melee-based attacks, while Stormcaller Runes can cause explosive damage, requiring careful movement to avoid.

The Limited Arena encounter is intense, with a smaller area and closer enemy placements, making it difficult to avoid damage.

Key challenges include reduced recovery, crit strikes from monster hits, and a damaging ring of blood surrounding the altar.

Despite the tough conditions, the investment in 100 maps resulted in a significant profit, with an average of 16.

The Tier 16 strap offers good returns, but is heavily dependent on fluctuating Catalyst prices and has poor gold returns compared to other strategies.

The strategy requires significant investment and is challenging, making it more suitable for endgame builds.

The high investment approach using the Scarab buff for catalyzing rewards is not as effective as the low investment one, and the returns are mostly in the form of Catalysts, which may not sell well.

Maximizing Profit from Catalysts: A Strategy

Using a 3 to 1 recipe with catalysts can help fill your inventory and maximize returns.

The big money is in selling fertile and prismatic catalysts, while tainted catalysts also sell well.

This strategy is effective for established builds and can yield significant profits, but the success depends on the catalyst market.