Ritual bosses are terrifying. I inadvertently specced fully into summoning circles (for an unrelated, ignorant reason I won’t get into here) not knowing the interaction w/ ritual and got myself into some 6+ boss rituals on my quest rite of the nameless.

I don’t mind the mechanic (and it’s fantastic for juicing rituals for chase uniques, esp since I play in SSF), but fully agree that stuff like this needs to have a way to opt out of when you’re not ready for the challenge. Some shit simply needs to be possible to unspec.

I like the idea, but 1) its an absolute clusterfuck with ZERO, ZERO visibility and 2) spawning 7 bosses at a ritual at the corner between couple walls is absolute crime as there is ZERO space.

I belive when I go too far with my first character, my second one will have a REALLY tough time on maps.

Yes, I know that a T1 waystone does not use the full atlaspoints. But at some point you get 0 levels from lower tier maps and when you jump onto those T5, T8, T11 etc. it will be REALLY tough

It’s even better when the ritual zone is on a fuck ass spot where 80% of the space is covered with obstacles.

pretty annoying when you just wanna do some random ritual and then the avengers show up to beat your ass

Yeah this system looks both unintuitive and poorly designed.

My guess is that it’s somewhat of a temporary band aid fix required after the original 1 portal system got changed, which led to people dying to boss and reclearing the whole map, since it’s probably deeply rooted in how the game is programmed.

Hope they’ll at least fix it by 1.0

It literally feels like a bug when this happens - it’s the first time I have this sort of encounter in the game where I’m looking around like John Travolta in Pulp Fiction like where tf is everyone?

crashes in ritual are bad too

It’s how balancing is heading. GGG at first tried the slower, methodical combat and people just didn’t want it. The game has been speeding up the last couple of leagues and will probably continue to do so. 

And as long as defence continues to be so bad people will default to nuking screens. 

You either follow along with that mindset or you find some tech that allows you to trivialise the content while not being super fast at it. 

My absolute worst boss is the queen. Her model is too damn small for all the stuff that is going on and she has so many one shot abilities. The bigger bosses usually are not a problem because at least you can somehow see what they are doing. But the queen will be standing inside a blood tornado charging the one shot and you’ll be dead before you even know where the attack came from. They really need to either stagger the boss spawning or make highlight them much better.

Losing your ritual quest progression to a DC is worse.

So many crashes on whirling.

There’s two things that I still absolutely hate about this game:

A - The portal count system. (Even though I haven’t died more than 4-5 times and I’m at T15s)

B - 90% of The map designs. Unnecessarily long, boring, full of obstacles and hindrances and walls pull the lever 4 times kind of shit makes me question whether this game is still worth my time.

Losing maps at all is just a bad design.

Who is it supposed to be punishing? the SSF, the new player, the person trying to actually engage with all the BS mechanics?

losing maps has one solution. Buy the best gear, do one shot dps, never deal with any threat or mechanic you can avoid. logout macro any danger.

If we wanted to be playing hardcore, we would be.

You mean six bosses in ritual at the same time?

This doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the bug where your one portal can go poof if someone joins your hideout just as you open the map.

Pretty insane, honestly

yeah i lost today 50k tribute map because i somehow manage to not see big slam from one boss out of 6 in ritual. just classic alt f4 moment.

I noticed some Path of Exile keywords in this post:

• Ritual - Ritual endgame mechanic (Wiki)

^(I am a bot.) ^| ^(All acronyms) ^| ^(Suggest)

Once again, this problem was introduced by the mediumcore death mechanics since 0.1. That thing has introduced a lot more problems than it “solved” in trying to make death matter in softcore (mainly avoid 6-portal defense play patterns). This league’s Ritual and Delirium makes it incredibly obvious.

It would have been rough even if you had a nice big circle to move around in when getting pounded by 5 bosses. However rituals often spawn in areas where you hardly have any space to move around. So the only way to play it is to instantly delete the bosses because there’s no space to dodge anything.

I really wish ritual zones were just bigger. Honestly I’d love a ritual atlas node that increased ritual size and cut down loot a tiny bit (5% maybe) or one that did the complete opposite. Would be super cool.

Ritual 100% sounds unintended.
It happened to me and I got heavily stunlocked seeing an empty map when going back after dying to literally last altar out of 5. Boss was already cleared before first altar so not nice.

I mean. There’s risk reward. You risked too much and you lost. I don’t see the issue here.

When doing rite of the nameless that is intended regardless of ritual passive points, from what i noticed every boss you kill stays in the final ritual for the next map and so on, so your 5th rite map should have 5+ bosses from the 5 maps

I’ve been farming ritual for the last 4 days trying to find a MB/HH. It’s a lot of fun but a couple of improvements can make the experience much better.

Firstly, anything on the Atlas that has to do with Ritual spawning bosses should have multiple options. Maybe multiple ritual mechanics can spawn is one of them etc.

In addition, some bosses should be disabled from spawning. The worst contender is probably the lava dude from Act 3.

Also every boss that spawns must have minimap icons. It is simple impossible to actually see what is going on, and the only reason why this content is even possible is because of screen clearing builds.

Lastly, it would be nice to have the rewards match the difficulty, make it RNG based. Right now on a moderately juiced ritual set up, you’re getting maybe 6-10 rerolls and 20-25k points depending on what proc. While people who can afford to run 20 div tablets can see 20+ rerolls and 40k points if not more. Maybe there is a 20% chance per boss to grant an additional reroll on the last ritual.

Gang gang, risk vs reward. Invest into more defense

I love it. Wish I could spawn 20 bosses on a ritual. If you can’t handle it don’t spec into it. You can always run white maps.

i would be okay with rituals spawning bosses if it werent for the fact half the time a ritual zone is just a small strip of area due to stupid wall placement

if less than 85% of the circle area isnt playable and is covered by walls or rocks, a ritual place shouldnt spawn there. full stop.

I really don’t get the point of clearing the map on boss death since map doesn’t reroll on death anymore

It’s a case of Monkey’s Paw.

We wanted more portals, we got them but we “lose” the map instead.

I got three bosses in and decided rituals wasn’t for me. Abyss is nice to me.

im convinced no build can safely do this. you have to be able to facetank 6 bosses. theres no mechanics or dodging. its just straight face tank or instakill dps

Sucks dying once then losing the entire map, even though you have more portals remaining.

I havent tested this, but does the +1 revive act differently than just another portal?

I’m annoyed they doubled down on the risk versus reward idea with the atlas masters. If I want 6+ mod maps, I feel like I need Doryani. But now I’m missing out on Jado’s juicing. 

I’m actually ok with the concept somewhat. But why only one portal? Give us 2 at minimum with 6 mods please! That way I can at least loot and GTFO of I’ve overcommitted.

Ritual bosses made me invest in better defences and more crowd control.

If nothing could kill you then everybody will be going glass cannon

Than do everything on the map and keep the boss for the last thing.

IMO the answer is to farm something else or easier ritual if you cannot handle it without dying.

Dont play content your character cant handle?

You can get +1 portal from one of the atlas masters.

[removed]

Yes, it’s how it works. You need to invest into defense it’s part of the game.