Summary
Ritual can be one of the most profitable endgame farming strategies in PoE 2 0.5.5 when you combine Sacred Bloom with properly prepared Ritual Tablets. A tested setup generated about 289 Divines in total value over roughly two hours, with an estimated profit of more than 100 POE 2 Divine Orbs per hour after accounting for the upfront investment.
The strategy does require expensive preparation, but you can scale the investment to your budget. The key is maximizing Ritual tribute, improving monster density, and getting as many valuable Omens as possible.
How the Sacred Bloom Ritual Strategy Works
The strategy revolves around building a chain of juiced city maps and using Sacred Bloom to enhance them.
Start by using a Grand Project on a Precursor Tower map. Completing the tower makes nearby city maps accessible, allowing you to build a route through several Ritual-focused areas.
The goal is to find city areas with useful modifiers, particularly:
Increased Tribute
Reduced Tribute cost for rerolls
Increased number of favors
Other modifiers that improve Ritual rewards
A Sacred Bloom can then be applied to the relevant areas to make the maps more rewarding.
Why Ritual Tablets Matter
The most important tablets for this strategy are +3 reroll tablets. They can be expensive, but the additional rerolls give you more opportunities to obtain valuable favors and Omens.
Useful tablet modifiers include increased Omen percentages, reduced Tribute costs for rerolls, and increased Tribute from monster sacrifices.
You should also prepare at least two Freedom of Faith tablets with reduced Tribute costs to help maximize your Ritual encounters.
Sacred Bloom and Map Preparation
Sacred Bloom is used to juice the selected areas before running the maps.
The tested setup focuses on T16 maps with a combination of Pack Size and Monster Effectiveness. Extra Item Rarity is useful, but Pack Size and Effectiveness are particularly valuable for Ritual because they increase the number and strength of monsters available for Tribute.
When rolling maps, prioritize:
Pack Size
Monster Effectiveness
A combination of both
Item Rarity as an additional bonus
The maps can be rolled with regular currency relatively cheaply, making this part of the preparation less expensive than the specialized tablets.
Atlas Tree Setup
The Atlas setup focuses on increasing monster and Ritual rewards.
Useful choices from the tested setup include increased effectiveness for city and grass areas, as well as Ritual nodes that provide 10% increased offerings.
The setup also takes the Ritual node that gives a chance for additional valuable rewards such as a Mageblood-related outcome.
For the Atlas Master, the tested setup uses Jeydo, particularly for Unexpected Missions, Partial Translations, and Long Days. These choices add more content and improve the overall juicing potential.
Doryani is another possible option, but the tested strategy uses Jeydo while running T16 maps.
How to Run the Juiced Ritual Maps
Once your maps and tablets are ready, the actual farming process is straightforward.
1. Enter the Wildwood First
Always complete the Wildwood encounter before starting the Rituals.
Collect as many wisps as possible because they help juice the map further. Different colors can provide different quantities, and the tested runs produced large amounts of Yellow, Purple, and rare Gold wisps.
Some encounters produced nearly 20K Yellow wisps or more than 13K Purple wisps, significantly increasing the potential value of the map.
2. Kill the Map Boss First
After entering the map, clear the Wildwood encounter and then kill the map boss before starting the Ritual chain.
This takes slightly longer, but completing the boss first allows you to focus entirely on the Ritual encounters afterward.
