The King in the Mists (Ritual)

For the final boss encounter, see The King in the Mists.

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The King in the Mists
The King in the Mists
Level(s)	50-83
Location(s)	Viridian Wildwood
Quest(s)	File:Becoming the Darkness quest icon.pngBecoming the Darkness
Resistance(s)	40% Fire 40% Cold 40% Lightning 25% Chaos
Modifier(s)	Cannot Be Fully Slowed

The King of the Mists is the major antagonist of Affliction league and the Viridian Wildwood. The Ritual version of his encounter can be found randomly in the Viridian Wildwood.

Skills

• Dark Orbs - The Wildwood bends to my will!/Tobair ómós! - Creates several purple orbs which fire at the player's location after a delay. Creates patches of Slow Aura ground
• Vine Cascade - Thorngrip!/Lonnsaigh! - Creating a cascade of phys+chaos conversion tendrils.
• Vine Nova - Invasive growth!/Grow!/Sprout!/Fás! - Raises his staff before slamming it, creating an Ice NovaIce NovaSpell, AoE, Cold, Nova
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (8-23) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.70 sec
  Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: 230%
  AoE Radius: 30Requires Level 12A circle of ice expands from the caster.Deals (23-988) to (34-1481) Cold Damage
  Base radius is (2.6-3) metres
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Base radius is (0.015-0.3) metresPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. that Chills the player.
• Summon Effigy - Dark effigy!/Marked for death!/Leth-creag!/Agrik armach! - Creates an effigy.
• Ritual of Dance - Traveler's bane!/You are seen!/Rith! - Inflicts a debuff for 8 seconds, imprisoning players if they stand still and inflicting Maim afterwards.
• Ritual of Meditation - Keep running!/Slaogarn! - Inflicts a debuff for 8 seconds, imprisoning players if they move and inflicting Maim afterwards.

Random skill:

• • Unknown: The darkness bids you, come to me!/Doradas ert, thek thuram!/A plague of locusts!/
  • Exploding Toads - Toads be your curse!/Nothingness beckons! - Creates a patch of Viscous Swamp, spawning purple toads that hop towards the player before exploding, dealing chaos damage.
  • Blood Ritual - Creates large red patches of boiling blood that inflict physical damage over time.
  • Caustic Ground - Creates small green patches of Caustic Ground.
• Soulrend - The end of meaning is nigh! - Ritual altar fire slow moving purple SoulrendSoulrendChaos, Spell, AoE, Duration, Projectile
  Level: (1-20)
  Cost: (14-26) Mana
  Cast Time: 0.80 sec
  Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
  Effectiveness of Added Damage: 170%Requires Level 28Fires a projectile that turns towards enemies in front of it, damaging and piercing through those it hits, and leeching some of that damage as energy shield. As the projectile travels, it repeatedly applies a short but powerful chaos damage over time debuff to each enemy in an area around it.Deals (21-885) to (31-1327) Chaos Damage
  Projectiles Pierce all Targets
  Deals (180.8-2642.5) Base Chaos Damage per second
  Base duration is 0.60 seconds
  Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect
  4% of Spell Damage Leeched as Energy Shield
  
  Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
  Base duration is (0.01-0.2) secondsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. projectiles

Strategy

The King in the Mists flees upon reaching 25% life.

Items found from this monster

Item	Drop Level
Ritual VesselRitual VesselStack Size: 10Stores the monsters slain for the first time from a completed Ritual Altar for future useRight-click this item then left-click a Ritual Altar to store the monsters from the completed Ritual in this item. Cannot be used on a Ritual in a map opened with a Blood-Filled Vessel.	1	1

This encounter always drops a Ritual VesselRitual VesselStack Size: 10Stores the monsters slain for the first time from a completed Ritual Altar for future useRight-click this item then left-click a Ritual Altar to store the monsters from the completed Ritual in this item. Cannot be used on a Ritual in a map opened with a Blood-Filled Vessel..

Version history

Version	Changes
3.23.0	Introduced to the game.