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Rituals are one of the more simple events that you’re going to face when running throughPath of Exile II’s Endgame Mapping Phase. Luckily, you will already have a bit of experience with this mechanic if you’ve been through Freythorn and encountered The King in the Mists.
Once you defeatDoryanifor the second time, the new expansive map will open up to you. Each of these nodes that are dotted around the map has a chance to contain a specific event. These events are crucial if you want to truly experience all thatPoE2has to offer.
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This guide will cover the ritual event, how to complete it, and the many rewards it has to offer.
What is a Ritual?
You can see which nodes have rituals by looking for the little red circle with the ram’s skull inside. Once you enter this map, 3–4 rituals will be randomly scattered around the area.
You can locate the ritual area by looking for large white rings that surround an altar. Before you’re able to activate the ritual,you must first defeat a group of enemies that spawns within the ring, and sacrifice their blood to the altar.
Once sated, the ritual will be able to be started by clicking on the altar. As soon as the ritual begins, shadows will enclose the area, meaning you’ll have to complete the ritual or die trying.
Anything that you kill, in order to sacrifice to the altar, will be brought back to life, and it must be slain again while you dodge other mechanics that the altar throws your way.The more enemies you’re able to defeat, the more rewards you will get at the end of the event.
Generally, this event works better on larger, more open maps like Steppe or Savannah, which have more densely packed monsters that can be sacrificed in bulk. Small maps like Augury and Crypt won’t have much in the way of spawns, meaning you won’t have many points to spend on the rewards at the end.
Make sure you clear all the rituals before leaving the map. It won’t contribute towards map completion, but it’s always worth attempting.
Precursor Tablets and Spawning Rituals
As with all main Mapping events, like Breach and Delirium, you can force-spawn these onto map nodes by finding a Lost Tower and activating the Precursor Beacon at the end.Once the beacon has been lit, click on the completed tower and insert a Precursor Tablet.
These tablets can be found on any Map that has Rituals in it, so make sure to make a beeline for them if you see one drop. In addition, tablets can have modifiers of their own on them, like increased experience or gold, for example.These extra modifiers will affect any nodes within the larger circular radius that surrounds the Lost Tower.
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Realistically, before attempting a bunch of rituals, you’re going to want to find a group of Lost Towers that surround a large selection of Map Nodes.Path around the outside of the Towers with low-level Waystones,and then insert Tablets of Irradiation and Ritual to get the most out of every node.
Once you’ve activated a good 4 or 5 towers in any area, each node will now have a good selection of buffs. And this is before you add on the buffs from the Waystones themselves.
Mapping this way guarantees huge maps with densely packed monsters and juicier rituals.It may take a while to set up, but the rewards are certainly worth it.
Ritual Mechanics
One thing that’s very important when dealing with a ritual is to make sure you have a way of dealing with a lot of enemies in a tight area.AoE attacks or Herald skills are great for this kind of event, similar to what you might use for a breach.
While you’re fighting off waves of spawning enemies, the altar will try and kill you too within specific mechanics of its own.There are 5 different attacks that the altar will use. This attack will be the same for every ritual on that specific map, but can change from node to node.
You may notice that many of the attacks here do chaos damage. So try to get your resistance as high as possible before attempting many rituals.
Ritual Rewards and Deferring
Once you’ve completed the 3 or 4 rituals that have spawned, you’ll be expecting some nice rewards. And there are plenty here!
As you kill the monsters that spawn periodically, you’ll receive something called Favor.This favor can be spent at the small shop window that opens when you click on the altar or the Ritual panel in the corner of your screen.
You will see a collection of items on the favor screen thatrange from gear to waystones, to currency like Regal and Exalted Orbs. If they are still greyed out, and you can’t see what items are there, you haven’t completed all the rituals yet. So go do that first.
In addition, there’s a new type of reward on offer here. Omens are ritual-specific rewards that generally can be used to help you craft new items.These omens can increase the effects of your orbs, making the outcomes more predictable, and giving you better odds at crafting something more valuable.
If you see one of these, be sure to pick them up,as the more powerful ones can go for a lot of currency on the Exchange at your hideout.
Now, if you don’t happen to have enough favor after killing all the monsters on offer,you may choose to defer an item by paying a percentage of the cost to guarantee that it will appear the next time you run a ritual map. This is great if you ever see a big ticket item, or if you have spent 1000 favor to re-roll the rewards on offer.
An Audience with the King
If you ever see An Audience with the King,grab it over everything else.This is the item that allows you to fight the King in the Mists. In comparison to other Pinnacle Boss Keys like the Breachstone,this is much more expensive and much more valuable.
Of course, you won’t be seeing this item very often, so if you do, it probably makes more sense tosell it and use the divines to upgrade your gear.Realistically, what will probably happen, is that you may never even see this item, and will have to buy it from the currency exchange in order to attempt the boss.
My Monk is level 93 and I’ve never seen one. Then again, maybe I haven’t done enough Rituals.
If you truly believe you’re ready to take on this encounter, then use the Audience on the Realmgate located at the center of your map atlas and give it a go!
Ritual Passive Skill Tree
Once you manage to brave the encounter with the King in the Mists and finally take him down, you will be granted 2 Ritual Atlas Points to spend in your new skill tree.
While you may allocate these points however you wish,certain passives will give you a better experience than others. For the best time while grinding out rituals, consider using your points in this order.Remember you can always refund them with Doryani if you want to try something new.
You can kill the King in the Mists 4 times for a maximum of 8 points for your skills tree. Naturally, every time you face him,the battle will get harder and harder, yet compared to something like Xesht or the Simulacrum waves, this fight isn’t too challenging.
Well-prepared with a few Divines worth of gear, you shouldn’t find this battle to be too much of a challenge.
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