Ritual

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A Bitter Ritual Altar encountered within the Acts

Rituals are a map event where several Ritual Altars appear. Ritual Altars can appear within the Acts and within Maps.

After activating the ritual altar you have to fight off a wave of enemies, who give you favor by defeating them; after the fight is over you can spend Tribute (Ritual League) at the ritual altar and pick from a list of various per-identified rares that cost favor.

Rituals have various buffs to enemies and environmental damage effects listed here

Ritual encounters

A Bitter Ritual in progress with rotating icy beams displayed

A Ritual in progress with ritual circle visible

Ritual Altars can have various prefixes, listed below. Each prefix gives the ritual a different set of mods.

Infernal

• Monsters do increased fire damage and can ignite.
• Meteors hit the ground that shoot out smaller fireballs that do damage randomly.

Suppressive

• Monsters regenerate life.
• Smothering mist reduces health regeneration.

Violent

• Monsters do increased physical damage and can cause bleeding.
• Pain totems pulse damaging waves.

Bitter

• Monsters deal extra cold damage and can freeze.
• Ice beams rotate.

Ensconced

• Monsters gain extra energy shield based on life.
• Altar restores monster energy shield.

Fluctuant

• Monsters get increased lightning damage.
• Damaging lightning balls cross the screen.

Vaal

• Items dropped by slain monsters are corrupted.
• Atziri's apparition protects the altar.

Rewards

After completing the ritual either 1/3rd of 1/2 of the items in the ritual are shown to you, to show all the items you must complete all the ritual altars on the map.

The type of items that can appear include

• Chaos OrbChaos OrbStack Size: 20Reforges a rare item with new random modifiersRight click this item then left click a rare item to apply it.s and Exalted OrbExalted OrbStack Size: 20Augments a rare item with a new random modifierRight click this item then left click a rare item to apply it. Rare items can have up to six random modifiers.s
• Common currency Items
• Divination cards and Stacked DeckStacked DeckStack Size: 20A stack of unknown divination cardsRight click to take a divination card out of the deck.s
• Rare items (all mods revealed)
• Talismans
• Magic flasks
• High quality skill gems and flasks
• Unique items
• Essences
• Maps
• Perandus CoinsPerandus CoinStack Size: 5000Trade coins to Cadiro Perandus.

Deferring

Rare items you don't have enough enough tribute for can be deferred for a fraction of their price. This removes a portion of the items price, and makes it appear in rituals several maps later. It is currently undetermined how long it takes for deferred items to show back up. Items can be deferred unlimited times, but there is a unknown max to how many items can be deferred. If an item is deferred and shows back up, if you don't pay to defer it or take it, the next time you see it will raise in price, and then will disappear if not deferred or taken.