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Ritual Statistics Part Two

We're back for part two of Ritual Statistics! Today, we're going to look at Ritual Vessels, Blood-filled Vessels, Tribute Gains and more.

First, let's take a look at the total Tribute gained from Ritual encounters, remembering from part one that 624,332,098 Rituals were started (and thus Tribute could be earned). In total, 1,313,156,248,242 Tribute has been earned by players running Rituals. This comes out to just over 2,100 Tribute per Ritual, giving an average area a total of 6,300 Tribute when completing 3 Rituals.

With all of that Tribute, Ritual Splinters have been purchased 26,184,083 times. This is the total number of purchases made, rather than the total count of Ritual Splinters purchased. An average area has ~3 Rituals, giving us 208,110,699 areas run. With this, we can see that players purchased Ritual Splinters every ~8 areas. Of the Ritual Vessels created from these splinters, 1,658,608 were used on Ritual Altars. That means that, on average, a Ritual Vessel was used on a Ritual Altar once for every 125 areas run. Furthermore, 926,764 Blood-filled Vessels were used in the Map Device, or once for every 224 areas run. This is fairly infrequent and may be something that we would want to revisit in the future should Ritual make its way into the core game.

Finally, we'll wrap up with a few miscellaneous Ritual statistics.

  • In total, 3,051,171,137 Ritual Splinters were offered as rewards (an average of 14.66 every area).
  • In total, Ritual Splinters were offered as rewards 198,587,563 times (an average of 1 every 1.05 areas).
  • In total, 29,547,874 Ritual Base Types were offered as rewards (an average of 1 every 7.04 areas).
  • In total, 1,636,846 Ritual Unique Items were offered as rewards (an average of 1 every 127.14 areas).


We hope you've enjoyed taking a closer look at these Ritual statistics with us. We've got another stats news post coming next week where we'll be taking a close look at which Atlas Passives players are taking in each Atlas Region (including The Uncharted Realms), so stay tuned!

Ethercraft and Rapture Microtransaction Concept Art

We've prepared pieces of concept art from the Ethercraft and Rapture microtransaction series to share with the community. If you're interested in taking a sneak peek into our microtransaction development process or if you've liked our recent cosmetic effects releases, then check them out below!

[h2]Savage Ethercraft Armour Set[/h2]



[h2]Savage Ethercraft Back Attachment[/h2]



[h2]Savage Ethercraft Aura Effect[/h2]



[h2]Ethercraft Armour Pack Bundle[/h2]



[h2]Rapture Armour Pack[/h2]



[h2]Rapture Weapon[/h2]



[h2]Rapture Portal Effect[/h2]



Community Event: Team Blast hosted by Havoc616

On February 27th and 28th, veteran community member, streamer and racer, Havoc616, will be hosting the first ever group-found race in this style! Players will compete in teams of 2-6 to earn points for specific objectives in a Private Ritual League.

This event will take place over four six hour sessions to give teams time to rest and strategise. If you’ve always wanted to try racing, then this is the perfect opportunity for you. The winners will share in a crowdfunded cash prize pool as well as microtransactions provided by us.

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Schedule Day 1 Start: February 27th at 8AM EST (1 PM GMT) Day 2 Start: February 28th at 8AM EST (1 PM GMT)

Prize Pool:

  • 1st: 35%
  • 2nd: 20%
  • 3rd: 10%
  • 4th: 8%
  • 5th: 7%
  • 6th: 6% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  • 7th: 5% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  • 8th: 4% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  • 9th: 3% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  • 10th: 2% + Innocence Armour Pack, Footprints & Weapon Effect
  • 11th - 15th: Chaos Orb Helmet & Radiant Sword Skin


If you want to tune into the action, you can watch live on Havoc’s Twitch channel where a full cast and crew will be working together to provide maximum coverage and entertainment.

Click here to learn more about the event, how to join the event, the rules in place, point system, prizes, or to contribute to the event's prize pool. You can also join the POE Racing Discord here.

Shout out to community members Faderon, Brittleknee, SK_Gunoo, Somayd, Muqve and DadBodGamingGod for their work behind the scenes to help make this event a reality.

Good luck to everyone who’s participating!

Community Designed Divination Card - Place Your Vote!

We're excited to announce that community member lowkeyripper has purchased a Divination Card design to share with the community. We'll host a series of polls so that the community can decide on each aspect of the card before it's finalised and released into the game! Today's poll will decide the item type the card will redeem for. You can vote here.

The poll will run for one week. Once the item category has been decided from this poll, another will be placed to determine which item within that category will be selected. After that, we'll use polls to determine the general theme, then provide suggestions for names, suggestions for flavour text and then some art concepts. Each stage will involve the community placing their vote for their preferred outcome.

We can't wait to see what the community designs and the legacy it contributes to Path of Exile. Thanks again to lowkeyripper for setting this up!

Talent Competition Highlights

We're continuing to share some of the entries from our recent Talent Competition. In case you've missed last week's highlights, check them out here!

[h2] The Tireless Quest for Exalted Orbs by nowand [/h2]



[h2] Escape by Lumonium [/h2]

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[h2] Karui Chest by MuchiderKech [/h2]



[h2] Tukohama by barbatrebbio [/h2]



[h2] Chaos Orb Tattoo by Paintboxed [/h2]



[h2] Fan Art by Kardalak_IX [/h2]



[h2] The Maven by xuantung [/h2]



[h2] The Maven by SimoneIF [/h2]



[h2] The Maven by BlooD1SworD [/h2]



If you've been inspired by seeing the talents of our players and would like to participate in this competition, you have more than two weeks to submit your entry! We can't wait to see what you'll come up with!