Ritual packs noob question

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Z: Let's move on to Ritual. So the Ritual sites we ... it says that we pull monsters to them or that we kill monsters in the area. Are we intended to pull monsters to these ritual sites and do we pull bosses to them?

C: Right. So you definitely don't need to and should not pull a monster to the site. And we did this on purpose. Because if it counts the monsters that are nearby, and if there was a benefit for pulling monsters there, then the correct behavior is to grab half the map and drag it to a Ritual. And that's not fun. So the way it works is when a Ritual spawns it's near some monsters organically because it's biased towards monsters and it has a bunch of extra monsters on it. And so those monsters that are near it, you do have to clear before you start the ritual, but there's no need to pull extra monsters in. It literally does nothing. So you clear the Ritual by killing all the monsters nearby, and it'll be a decent fight, and then you tag the Ritual altar and that re-summons all the monsters in a staggered formation, as you're fighting against the effects of the altar. And we didn't make it super clear in the video, but there are lots of different types of altars with lots of like arena-based combat that you get to do there. It's not really like an Elreon mission, where it's slow paced. This is something that's really throwing monsters in your face. It's meant to be a fast-paced, bite-sized combat encounter. And then each of the subsequent ones that you do has all those monsters and more. And so because they ramp up in difficulty and reward we totally expect weaker players to, like, call it and not do the last rituals in the area if it's just getting too hard for them. And so it's meant to be a thing where you do as many as you feel you can handle. Which i get it, for most people that have, you know, made an effort to watch this stream probably means all of them because they're good at the game. But you never know it might get pretty hard for you.

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Are we intended to pull monsters to the Ritual sites?

No, a Ritual will spawn near monsters and will also spawn extra monsters around the altar. You must clear these monsters before you can start the Ritual. After activating the altar, you must kill the monsters again while fighting against the effects of the ritual. Each subsequent ritual in an area will include the previously-fought monsters as part of the ritual encounter to make them progressively harder to complete. Pulling other monsters into the Ritual site will not cause them to be added to the Ritual.