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!

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!

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.



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!

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!

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!





























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!

Today, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some Ritual Statistics to see how everyone is faring and what kinds of rewards players are taking away from Rituals!

• Rituals Started: 624,332,098
  
• Rituals Completed: 600,943,858
  
• Rituals Failed: 23,371,627

As you can see, players have been extremely busy with Rituals. This comes out to 20,139,745 Rituals run per day since Ritual began (at the time of writing), or just over 23 Rituals every second!

Completion rate of Rituals is actually quite high, at just over 96%.

So, lots of Rituals have been completed, but let's take a look at what players are running Rituals for in the first place: rewards!


As noted above, these are the times that a given Favour was bought from a Ritual, but doesn't factor in stack sizes (where applicable). It's worth keeping in mind that the numbers above reflect how often a reward was taken, rather than how often it was offered. So while Scarabs appear to be almost as common as Orbs of Fusing, since players have full control over what they purchase, the items that players value will see higher than usual representation.

If you're wondering how many maps you'd need to run on average before you'll be offered a Mirror of Kalandra, wonder no more. Just over 500,000! So what are you still reading for?

That wraps up part one of our Ritual Statistics. Are there any other specific items you'd like to know the frequency of? Let us know and we'll do our best to include some of them in part two, coming next week!

The Maven Kill event, organised with the support of Zizaran and his sponsor, concluded earlier this week which means it’s time to announce the full list of winners.

• 1st Place ($10,000) - Darkee
  
• 2nd Place ($5,000) - AlkaizerX
  
• 3rd Place ($2,500) - Towerbrah
  
• 4th Place ($1,250) - xSayByeBye
  
• 5th Place ($750) - bigdummydan125
  
• 6th - 10th Place ($500) - TheFriendly, CBYHEP, dslily, CARNDARAK, MOSTPOSITIVEMAN
  
• 11th - 15th Place ($350) - Fightgarr, orionbip, Karvarousku, Havoc6, guardianj11
  
• 16th - 25th Place ($250) - flame_blast, nickexile11, kavson1993, FusionXY, supercell, weilingz, sss111, AhhCrying, z4kur, KuschelKatze
  
• First Atziri Kill ($500) - Paak_HC
  
• First Uber Atziri Kill ($2,000) - powershot615
  
• First Shaper Kill ($1,250) - Mosh47
  
• First Elder Kill ($750) - Mosh47
  
• First Uber Elder Kill ($2,000) - Darkee
  
• First Awakener Kill (8 Awakening Level) ($2,000) - AlkaizerX
  
• Deepest Delve (1310 depth, $3000) - OskamIn
  
• 2nd Deepest Delve (1211 depth, $1,500) - Darkee
  
• 3rd Deepest Delve (1154 depth, $750) - shadowpye

We have randomly selected 25 winners to receive their choice of microtransaction bundle from the list found here. Congratulations to the winners below. We’ll contact you soon to arrange your prizes.

• SymDonB, Oskarmln, AlkaizerX, Rihzel, Zareuther, ShadowLord127, wedeln, snatat, alex97ander, Stynka, MeShaMaaN, Darkee, Towerbrah, z4kur, Kortzon, shadowpye, PoEDan79, bigdummydan125, CARNDARAK, xprenz, Trollgenji, Procis, LordRbn, bittytittys, Triveman

We are also in the process of distributing 500 Warlord Mystery Boxes to randomly selected accounts. We will send a confirmation via private message on the forum.

Congratulations to all the winners! Thank you to everyone who embraced the challenge and participated in this event!

The Ritual league is well and truly underway and today we wanted to share some of the concept art from the Ritual Supporter Packs! Check out the concept art below or purchase yours here.











The Ritual Supporter Packs will be available until the announcement of our 3.15 expansion.
If you are wondering how our extended Heist league has impacted our release schedule, we wrote about our expected timeline for 2021 here.

The dazzling cosmetic effects from the previous Twilight Mystery Box are now available in the store! It’s also still possible to combine some of the individual Sunrise and Nightfall microtransactions into the ‘Twilight’ cosmetic effects. You can see all of the cosmetics that have been made available in the Twilight Mystery Box trailer below or you can view everything that is new to the store here.



If you would like to add a touch of extra glamour to your hideout then check out the new Twilight Stash Skin Bundle. This bundle replaces the standard look of your Stash and Guild Stash with elegant, purple and gold themed ones. You can equip your Stash Skin by checking under the ‘Twilight’ theme in the Hideout Cosmetics UI and placing the item in your hideout. Please note that both microtransactions are only available within your hideout and will not be displayed in town instances.



Thank you for your support!

Our Talent Competition has only just started but we have already seen so many incredible entries that we wanted to share some with you today! We’ll be publishing even more highlights over the coming weeks so be sure to check them out. For now, take a look at some of the amazing entries we have received so far.

























You can view this short story here by clicking the 'show' tag.

There is still plenty of time to enter the Talent Competition so if you would like to submit an entry, you can do so by replying to this forum.