Ritual and volatile plants

I play crossbow with rapid shot so there's a bit of a ramp up time before it gets going. At the my current map tier i stand no chance in ritual because i need to constantly dodge the purple lights, giving me no time to attack.

Generally with how small and tight the spaces are in most maps, adding such strong negative effects (tornado is same thing) to ritual is kinda ridiculous tbh. It feels like this whole activity is designed for zoom-zoom builds.

I'm not a huge lover of how the mechanic works in PoE2 myself. For Ritual I have to change gears (skills) and only use things that are effectively either INSTANT or are "fire & forget" (ballista, grenades, whatever)

Yea, imagine being a warrior and trying to melee something that just keeps dropping them all around the mob ...

Its just a terrible, terrible design, and though it was terrible before, its worse now with the speed, leaving almost no window of oppurtunity.

Pretty fucking sad mechanic imo, as it just isnt visible (like most shit in the game). Sadder that they had to buff it.

yea I just lost the new hardcore I made to test this patch. insta-killed the orok camp mobs in a3 and went to loot my jewelers orb from the chest, didnt see the volatile plants and instantly died.

by far the most infuriating mechanic in the entire game and it makes going anything but CI in hardcore feel just stupid. if playing a mace warrior or anything extremely slow you basically are forced to skip them until you are extremely strong because you never have any time to attack

Are you using Mobility? I found that was necessary with Rapid Shot. That and the new reduced skill move speed penalty nodes make Rapid Shot actually viable. Unfortunately those nodes aren’t near the xbow or Merc area. Pathfinder actually makes a decent Rapid Shot ascendancy choice.

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Lechmnizzle#1553 が発言:

I play crossbow with rapid shot

its a 1 button build, thats why its not working, you should have atleast grenades, or something else, rapid shot was designed with single target in mind.

It happened for me. Too many volatile plants (like 6-8 following me) while doing ritual. Its a bug imo.

I reported it on bug section.
Its useless to post it here...

If you hover over the ritual you can tell if it's the volatile plants.
If it is, you can skip it.
Not all content is for every build.

That's a worthless answer, please stop making excuses for GGG's lack of QA or common sense...

There is a golden rule among hardcore players... If a content is available, it does not mean you should necessarily immediately do it. Learn! xD