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The Ritualist is an ascendancy of the Huntress class in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) that utilizes the dark arts of a Huntress to perform rituals and gain unique benefits. Learn more about the Ritualist's mechanics, its confirmed skills, and its base class.
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Latest Ritualist Updates
0.3.0 Patch Notes
As the Whispers Ask has been removed and the Ritual Sacrifice skill has been transferred to the As the Whispers Demand notable. The Increased Life Recovery Rate from Wildwood Persistence has also been increased from 5% to 10% per 5% missing Unreserved Life.
Ritualist Ascendancy Skills
All Ritualist Skills and Passive
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| 1 | Corrupted Lifeforce | ・Grants Skill: Blood Boil Blood Boil Causes enemies to grow volatile and explode upon death and spearing corrupted blood to enemies hit. |
| 2 | As the Whispers Demand | ・Ritual Sacrifice can be used on yourself to remove 20% of maximum Life to grant a random Monster Modifier. A maximum of one Modifier can be granted this way.
・Grants Skill: Ritual Sacrifice Ritual Sacrifice Sacrifice the Corpse of a Rare Monster to grant you its Modifiers for a duration. |
| 3 | Intricate Sigils | ・+1 Charm Slot ・20% more Charm Charges gained |
| 4 | Mind Phylacteries | ・Can instead consume 25% of maximum Mana to trigger Charms with insufficient charges |
| 5 | Wildwood Persistence | ・10% increased Life Recovery rate per 5% missing Unreserved Life |
| 6 | Unfurled Finger | ・+1 Ring Slot |
| 7 | Mystic Attunement | ・25% increased bonuses gained from Equipped Rings and Amulets |
Ritualists, given their ability to utilize the effects of Rituals and the Occult, abandons the Huntress' peaceful ways and evokes the dark arts to gain unique benefits from trinkets.
The Ritualist allows you to gain enhanced effects from rings as well as the ability to equip an additional ring for a total of 3. You can also enhance the ring's effect causing it to give an increased effect which allows you to further maximize the effects of having more accessory slots than other classes.
You're also able to use occultic arts to cause enemies to explode upon death and even gain enemy monster's modifer by consuming their corpse or sacrificing your own life force.
Best Ritualist Ascendancy Skills
| Skill | Effect |
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| Unfurled Finger | ・+1 Ring Slot |
| Mystic Attunement | ・25% increased bonuses gained from Equipped Rings and Amulets |
Unfurled Finger and Mystic Attunement are the best scaling skill combo you can get from the Ritualist. It allows you to get 3 ring slots and further enhance their effects by 25% for a total of 75% bonus effects from the three rings combined. The benefit of these two skills can be extremely valuable depending on the rings you can get in the game.
This is one of the best scaling skills you can get from the Ritualist as the benefit of these two skills can be extremely valuable depending on the rings you can get in the game.
Ritualist Ascendancy Mechanics
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Corrupt the Blood of Enemies
The Ritualist can corrupt enemies and cause them to erupt and damage nearby enemies while corrupting them with cursed blood. The exact effects of Corrupted Blood is not yet confirmed so stay tuned for more updates regarding this skill.
Ritual Sacrifices for Buffs
The Ritualist can also consume monsters or invoke a ritual to gain rare enemy monster's modifiers. This allows the Ritualist to gain unique effects in combat and use an enemy's power against them. The amount of modifiers you can get is not limited to just one modifiers and gaining multiple modifiers is possible.
In addition to gaining monster's modifiers, Ritualists can also increase Ring and Charm slots in their equipment by sacrificing some of their base stats.
List of Ritualist Builds
All Ritualist Builds
※ Select the latest patch for the latest builds, but click on the earlier versions if you want to see Legacy builds!
Ritualist Base Class
Ascends From the Huntress
To become a Ritualist, one must take on the Huntress as their starting class and complete their Ascension Trials. The other ascended option of the Huntress would be the Amazon.
As the Huntress is known for their wide array of AoE attacks with varying elemental applications, it is recommended to take on Ascension Trials that allow the Huntress to exploit elemental weaknesses!
Huntress Ascendancies and Class Guide
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List of Early Access Classes
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