Ritual homing nuclear green missiles of doom, just why?

Seriously, what is the point to still have such a mechanic in the game when every other OS has been either toned down or made more noticeable, like the changes to DD and such? They don`t make a sound, are barely visible, are incredibly fast, target only your character, and detonate you and your next three generations no matter what defense layers you have.

Ritual is already such a lackluster mechanic, yet I love how it fits my playstyle and run it anyway, but those balls are making it miserable to enjoy the game. I built my current toon to finally be able to run a bit more juiced content, and can do so relatively well so far, including deathless t17`s, but those damn balls single handled made me lose an entire afternoon of progress to 98 after ripping 3 times to it while I was dealing with actual mechanics in maps.

I`m not one to ask for removal, but the damage these things do is too much, it`s like getting hit by ubers in t16 maps...

I think I just died to these in a white t2. Wasn't expecting anything to go through my defenses in an unmodded low tier map, so I just tanked a bunch of them. Bad idea, apparently.

Agreed, I ran almost all my maps with ritual until yesterday and 95% of my deaths were to these balls. At some point they become so hard to see, when there are tons of effects on the screen, so that even stopping to click a shrine can be ur end.
In PoE2 they are annoying aswell, but way more telegraphed and also way less. U can see 3-4 balls flying towards u and u're able to safely detonate them. Here it's like a bombardment of 30 balls, all in different intervals just hunting u while u're trying to kill stuff. Good luck if u're not stun immune and get stunned for like 0.1 second.

I respecced out of ritual now and my life has gotten so much better since. Maps are less stressful and I might actually get to 100 in a reasonable time :D

I ended reespecing my atlas, and my problems are gone. Went with juiced Alva runs with Delirium, Beyond, EoW and a bunch of other stuff, and it was still chill af. Had a couple of close calls for getting greedy with Altars but I could actually recover because it was not a BS oneshot outta nowhere. What a shame, because I really like Ritual, and getting my own Specter corpses along with Mist King frag was my plan for currency this league.

By the way, Delirium has exactly the same mechanic, the red balls, but it is done properly. They are triggered by proximity, target only your toon as well, but have reasonable speed and a huge audio cue so you know you have to get ready, and if you don't, you have a chance to survive the explosions because the damage is not ludicrous, but they are punishing enough to leave you open to get killed by other things around you.

yeah those are bad design