Ritual in PoE2 is sometimes broken

I have 8 points allocated in Ritual, to be specific - cheaper reroll, cheaper deferring, +omen chance and +wildwood packs plus 49% increased pack size on map.

And I got ~800 tribute after 3 rituals, this is absurd and bad - sometimes you can get items in Ritual, which cost more than 2k tribute to defer - how are we supposed to play Ritual, if on some maps we can't defer items even without rerolling or buying out any other items?

Don't blame me for not taking a 4-ritual node, it wouldn't change anything, even if I ended up with ~1200 tribute instead, it still won't be enough to defer an expensive item in a case of it showing up in Ritual - this is clearly an issue, in most cases Ritual gives me at least 3k tribute, in some cases more than 4k - which is usually enough, but 800? Jonathan, please, fix it.

How to fix it? I'm not a game designer, but here's my suggestion - if you won't be able to find the exact reason why it's happening (most of the time i get way more tribute than 800), what you can do is implement a system which won't allow this to happen - make it so we will have at least 3k tribute after 3 rituals, not less, a "fail safe" - it will eliminate such issues, where without deferring, rerolling and taking any items, and it won't make Ritual a broken(in a good way), because all it will do is fixing such issues that occurred on my maps - I am left with 800 tribute and no options to even reroll properly.

Video of this issue: https://youtu.be/orcjoeze4nM

I'm having the same problem. Most of the time, even on maps with +50% pack size delirium, I only get a maximum of 2.5k tribute. And I experience this by using at least 6 ritual tablets with pack size.

I spend hours trying to find towers, and when I finally find a good area, I'm happy to invest, enter the map, and get my money's worth. But then this happens to me. When this happens, I lose all motivation to play, and I want to delete the game. The first time, I thought it might be a bug and moved on, but this is the fourth time I've experienced the same thing, and frankly, I'm running out of patience.

You have to take the 4 ritual node or you will just be subject to rng like this.

The way it works is each subsequent ritual you do will also summon all the monsters from the previous rituals, so its ramping. By not having the 4th ritual circle your missing out on the biggest one and you will just be left with scraps.


Imo the 4 ritual node shouldnt exist and should just be default, since its mandatory.

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Nyon#6673 wrote:

You have to take the 4 ritual node or you will just be subject to rng like this.

The way it works is each subsequent ritual you do will also summon all the monsters from the previous rituals, so its ramping. By not having the 4th ritual circle your missing out on the biggest one and you will just be left with scraps.


Imo the 4 ritual node shouldnt exist and should just be default, since its mandatory.

I'm sorry, but what you wrote has nothing to do with the problem we are experiencing. It's impossible to get a tribute as low as -300 from the first ritual on the full delirium +50% pack sized ritual maps. Because this problem doesn't happen all the time. Even my friends who enter empty maps get more tribute than me. Also, the guy shared video look at it map is juiced as orange.

I'm sure ritual farmers will agree with me. There must be something wrong because even map itself lack of density in that kind of situation

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Nyon#6673 wrote:

You have to take the 4 ritual node or you will just be subject to rng like this.

The way it works is each subsequent ritual you do will also summon all the monsters from the previous rituals, so its ramping. By not having the 4th ritual circle your missing out on the biggest one and you will just be left with scraps.


Imo the 4 ritual node shouldnt exist and should just be default, since its mandatory.

You clearly didn't read through my post - taking 4 Rituals wouldn't change anything, because there are multiple items in Ritual, such as t0 uniques and t0 omens, which require at least 2k tribute to defer them - your suggestion would change nothing in that case, getting ~1200 tribute instead of 700-800 is irrelevant if in the end you need at least 2k.