Special Ritual nodes might be bugged

So I already posted it on Reddit, but decided to post the same thing here, so maybe someone from GGG might actually see it and at least tell me it's not and me and a lot of people are just unlucky.

I love Ritual. There hasn’t been a single league where I didn’t end up running this mechanic at some point. Sooner or later, I always come back to it.

However, for several leagues now I’ve noticed one issue. Maybe it’s just coincidence, but something feels off. Every time I take the two nodes that give “25% increased chance of Ritual Altars with Special Rewards,” I suddenly stop encountering special Rituals altogether.

This league I decided to actually test it. I ran 100 maps without the nodes and 100 maps with them.

It’s not a huge sample size, but the results line up with what I’ve been feeling for a long time:

Tree without the nodes: 16/100 maps with special Rituals
Tree with the nodes: 2/100 maps with special Rituals

I get that RNG is RNG. You could theoretically hit a special Ritual every map, or none at all. But such a huge difference? Going from roughly 1 in 6 maps without the nodes to just 2 maps with them?

Has anyone else experienced something like this? At this point I honestly don’t know if I’ve just been insanely unlucky for multiple leagues, or if there might actually be something going on.

Every map was an 8-mod Jungle Valley, using 2 Scarabs of Selectiveness, 1 Scarab of Wisps, and 2 Scarabs of Abundance, with the same Atlas tree: https://i.imgur.com/QehBxSE.jpeg

For the 100 maps without the nodes, I removed the two Ritual special reward nodes and allocated those points into Beyond or additional Scarab nodes instead.
Last bumped on Apr 6, 2026, 6:14:27 PM

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