Ritual: Tribute, Omens & the Rite

How Ritual works

A Ritual Altar absorbs the monsters you kill inside its circle. Once enough have died, activate it: the slain monsters are resurrected and you fight them again. Killing the revived monsters earns Tribute, which you spend on Favours (the reward items). You can reroll the Favour list (costs Tribute) or defer a Favour (pay part now, it reappears later). Tribute does not carry across maps.

At endgame the reward screen shows only Uniques and Omens. Locusts point you to the next altar after each one.

The Omen economy (the money)

Omens are meta-crafting items: they change how your next currency orb behaves. They hold value all league because every crafter needs them. The high-value ones from Ritual:

• Omen of Whittling: next Chaos Orb removes the lowest-level modifier.
• Omen of Sinistral / Dextral Erasure: next Chaos Orb removes only prefixes / only suffixes.
• Omen of Sinistral / Dextral Annulment and Greater Annulment (remove two): targeted / double annul.
• Omen of Greater / Sinistral / Dextral Exaltation: next Exalt adds two mods / only a prefix / only a suffix.
• Omen of Sinistral / Dextral Coronation (Regal) and Alchemy variants: force affix type on Regal / Alch.
• Utility: Amelioration (75% less XP loss on death), Resurgence, Refreshment.

The tablet mod “of Omens” (Ritual Favours have +35-70% chance to be Omens) is what turns Ritual into an omen printer. Stack it, then reroll toward the omens you can sell.

The boss chain

Unspent Tribute is sacrificed toward An Audience with the King, which reveals the Crux of Nothingness on the Atlas via the Realmgate.

• King in the Mists: the gateway boss. Drops caster uniques and the Head of the King key. Chase drops: Ingenuity (belt), The Burden of Shadows (caster staff, Sigil of Power), From Nothing, Beetlebite, Pragmatism.
• Rite of the Nameless: take the Head to the effigy at Caer Tarth, then choose a chain of 5 maps. Each ritual's monsters (and the map boss) reappear in the following maps, and each map awards one element of the key to the final pinnacle. Currency (Divines, Mageblood at ~380 div) can appear here as a Foretold Bounty.
• The Bodach: the final Ritual pinnacle. Each Rite map's final Ritual drops a Call of the Shadows; place 5 in the effigy for the 3-phase darkness fight.
• The Queen in the Mists: an optional boss unlocked by the Mysterious Rites node (8% chance for a Queen's Ritual). Drops 3 corrupted Idols (Martyr, Pharisee, Sycophant).

The full Ritual Atlas subtree

Exact node text from poe2db. Points come from the maps around Caer Tarth and from Ritualistic Books of Knowledge (2 points each).

• Increased Tribute: +5% Tribute from sacrificed monsters (small nodes, stack many).
• Tempting Offers: reroll Favours 1 additional time. Magnanimous Offerings (pinnacle): rerolls have 20% chance to be free.
• Patient Devotion: deferring costs 50% reduced Tribute and deferred Favours reappear 50% sooner. The core defer-farming node.
• Ancient Enmities: 25% increased Tribute from Spirit-Influenced / Possessed monsters; Azmeri Spirits prefer ritual circles.

• Reborn in Shadow: revived monsters +40% chance to be Magic and +40% chance to be Rare (more Tribute + drops).
• From the Mists: Rituals contain 1 additional pack of Wildwood Monsters. Between Two Worlds: altars spawn a Wildwood Wisp.
• Bring Forth the Unseen: 15% chance an altar sits on a Summoning Circle, adding a Boss.
• Invigorated Sacrifices (pinnacle, multi-choice): +10% Favours, or +50% altar skill damage, or reduced Tribute penalty on revives.

• Traveller's Woe: 100% increased chance to find a chosen Ritual type (Contaminated / Infested / Tainted / Smothered / Sapping).
• Spreading Darkness (pinnacle): Unique rewards have 50% chance to be specific item types by ritual type (e.g. Contaminated = Weapons/Offhands, Sapping = Gloves/Rings). Target the slot you want to sell.
• Mysterious Rites (pinnacle): 8% Queen's Ritual (more Favours, +10 Omens in the first set, +1 Queen Idol).

• Royal Tithe: +15% progress toward an Audience when offering Tribute. Prayer and Pledge: 10% of Tribute spent also progresses the Audience bar.
• Ongoing Chants: the Rite lasts 1 additional map. Umbral Gathering: Rite map options have 20% chance for an extra modifier.
• Hour of the Nameless: the Rite can rarely offer specific valuable Uniques (Mageblood-tier).

Juicing: exact tablet text

Ritual Tablets add altars; the tablet suffixes (poe2db) tune the economy. Stack the ones matching your goal:

• of Omens: Favours +35-70% chance to be Omens. The omen-farm mod.
• of the Cult / of the Foundling: revived monsters +25-40% Rare / +35-70% Magic (more Tribute).
• of Sacrifice: sacrificed monsters grant +18-30% Tribute.
• of Prayers / of the Occult: +1-3 rerolls / rerolled Favours 3-6% chance to cost no Tribute.
• of Devotion / of the Appeal: deferring costs 20-30% less / deferred reappear 25-40% sooner.
• Unique Freedom of Faith: reroll Favours twice as many times (Favours cost 10-15% more Tribute).

The city farm (ronarray's walkthrough)

The stable Ritual money-maker, targeting 70,000-80,000 Tribute per Rite. It runs the Rite of the Nameless (you need the Head of the King), and the edge comes from spending Tribute smartly, not just stacking tablets.

• Master: Jado (unexpected missions + partial translations, which interacts with the tablets). Doryani is a weaker alternative.
• Atlas: the Invigorated Sacrifices option giving revived monsters a 50% reduced Tribute penalty (max Tribute), plus Traveller's Woe.
• Run the Rite chain, but do your first one or two maps outside the city (cheap, saves currency), then switch to City maps for the rest. Keep at least half your maps City (4 tablet slots, most profit).

The expensive piece is one “rerolling Favours 3 additional times” tablet (of Prayers, ~13-20 div). Run only one unless you are hunting Headhunter / Mageblood. Fill the other slots cheap: +chance for Omens, +Tribute from sacrifices, and reduced reroll Tribute cost. Then save your good tablets for the last maps of the Rite: Tribute, rerolls and bonuses all peak on the final map, so run cheap tablets early and the reroll tablet at the end.

Basic corrupted waystones with ~20% Pack Size and some Rarity for most maps. On the last few maps, switch to a full Pack-Size map (~44%) to maximise Tribute. T16 is not worth it except maybe those final maps.

Reroll the Favour list for the money Omens (Whittling is ~8 div, plus Sinistral / Dextral Erasure and Annulment). Instead of buying a good Omen at full price, defer it repeatedly: each defer lowers its Tribute cost (helped by Patient Devotion), so by the high-Tribute final map you buy it cheap. Dump any leftover Tribute on a cheap Omen of Amelioration so nothing is wasted.

The farming loop

1. Atlas: Tribute nodes + Reborn in Shadow + Patient Devotion, then the pinnacle-gated reward nodes (Spreading Darkness, Mysterious Rites) once you have killed the pinnacle.
2. Tablets: 2-3 Ritual tablets rolled for of Omens + revived-rarity, or run 1 Ritual tablet as an amplifier on an Abyss / Breach / Delirium map. The dedicated ritual farm (ronarray, Empyriangaming) runs a City map with 4 Ritual tablets (City maps allow a 4th tablet slot) for maximum altars per map.
3. In map: pull dense packs into the altar circle before activating. Do the altars in order so the snowball builds.
4. At the altar: reroll toward Omens and valuable Uniques; defer anything expensive and keep 1000-1500 Tribute after your last reroll so deferred items stay reachable.
5. Bank leftover Tribute toward An Audience with the King when you want boss / Rite progress.