Path of exile's latest league, Echoes of the Atlas, was released on January 15, and many players already have a preliminary understanding of this new league. From the game data, we can see how players like this league.
Data on steam:
Let’s take a look at what players say about this new league:
PoE is an action roleplaying game (ARPG). These types of games thrive on killing lots of monsters as fast as possible. You want your character to feel powerful and speed through tilesets to get as much loot as possible. Past leagues like Harvest, Delirium, Legion, Heist, etc, etc, etc… had a way of slowing the players down to do something else in the game for the league. I liked slowing down a bit and taking time off from killing monsters at breakneck speeds, but most of the fanbase did not. The core community wanted to kill, kill, kill, and get loot. The Ritual League lets the players kill, kill, kill, and loot until their hearts are content. I found doing the rituals a bit boring after a while, but with Echoes of the Atlas added to the league I can see how the rituals help players stay engaged as they level.
A ritual is like a harvest, but without having to go to the harvest node and plant seeds. On a side note, Harvest is part of the league too and it is streamlined to act more like a ritual and less like an Animal Crossing farm simulator. The rituals are in each tileset and depending on the tileset there is a set amount of rituals to complete. Each tileset has a loot table for the ritual. As you kill monsters you gain tribute points to buy items. Say there are three rituals in a tileset, you complete the first ritual and gain access to the loot to buy with the tribute(A new Poe currency items).
Some of the loot in the ritual is “grayed” out. You will have to do more rituals in the tileset to gain access to those items. The smart thing to do is to wait until you complete all the rituals in the tileset before buying items; that way you can make a better decision. Sometimes you might want an item but you did not receive enough tribute points to buy that item. Do not fret, you can defer items. Deferring an item gives it a chance to show up again on another tileset loot table at a lower tribute cost. Sometimes this did not work that great. It is a good concept, but I found a few times where that same item I deferred, ended up costing more in the next tileset. After a while, I gave up on deferring items and just bought junk to use as crafting materials. Even though the loot table was a bit bugged when deferring items and the loot was not amazing most of the time, the rituals were fun to do and they did not stop me from killing monsters. The new Ritual League in PoE is a nice way to keep the action going as you grind to the end-game of the 3.13 patch.
With the release of Poe 3.13, the popularity of Path of Exile has reached a new height. Many new players choose to enter this game. When we enter this new alliance, we need an initial build: