Forbidden Rite | PoE Wiki (2024)

Forbidden Rite is a chaos spell that fires a projectile near your cursor, as well as additional projectiles for each enemy within range. Casting this spell deals a Chaos Damage hit to you based on a percentage of your maximum life and energy shield. This includes when the spell is triggered.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Taking Damage: Whenever the spell is used, including via Cast when Damage Taken SupportCast when Damage Taken SupportSupport, Spell, Trigger
Icon: !
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 250%
Cooldown Time: 0.25 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)Requires Level 38Each supported spell skill will track damage you take, and be triggered when the total damage taken reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.This Gem can only Support Skill Gems requiring Level (38-70) or lower
Supported Skills deal (65-27)% less Damage
Trigger Supported Spells when you take (528-3272) total Damage from Hits

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills require (0.5-10)% reduced amount of Damage taken to Trigger

Cast On Critical Strike SupportCast On Critical Strike SupportCritical, Support, Spell, Trigger
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Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%
Cooldown Time: 0.15 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)Requires Level 38Must support both an attack skill and a spell skill to work. The attack skill will trigger a spell when it critically strikes an enemy. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.Supported Attacks will Trigger a Supported Spell when you Crit an Enemy
Supported Skills deal (19-10)% less Spell Damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (1-20)% increased Attack Critical Strike Chance
Supported Skills have (1-20)% increased Spell Critical Strike Chance

This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.

Cast when Damage Taken SupportCast when Damage Taken SupportSupport, Spell, Trigger
Icon: !
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 250%
Cooldown Time: 0.25 sec
Can Store 1 Use(s)Requires Level 38Each supported spell skill will track damage you take, and be triggered when the total damage taken reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.This Gem can only Support Skill Gems requiring Level (38-70) or lower
Supported Skills deal (65-27)% less Damage
Trigger Supported Spells when you take (528-3272) total Damage from Hits

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills require (0.5-10)% reduced amount of Damage taken to Trigger

This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.

Dark PactDark PactMinion, Spell, AoE, Chaining, Chaos, Nova
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (7-13) Mana
Cast Time: 0.50 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%Requires Level 28This spell removes some life from one of your Skeleton minions near you or the targeted location to deal chaos damage in an area around it. This effect will chain to your other nearby skeletons. If you have no skeletons near you or the targeted location, it will sacrifice your own life to deal damage instead.Deals (24-241) to (36-362) Chaos Damage
Sacrifices 8% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos Damage
Chains +2 Times
Uses your Life if no Skeletons in range
(56-136)% more Damage with Hits and Ailments if using your Life

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Sacrifices +(0.1-2)% of Skeleton's Life to deal that much Chaos Damage

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Spell Echo SupportSpell Echo SupportSpell, Support
Icon: k
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.Supported Skills deal 10% less Damage
Supported Skills Repeat an additional time
Supported Skills have (40-54)% more Cast Speed

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Spell Damage

This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.

Unleash SupportUnleash SupportSpell, Support
Icon: q
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports spell skills, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support skills with cooldowns, triggered skills, Brand skills, Vaal skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Supported Spells gain a Seal every (0.90-0.71) seconds, to a maximum of 3 Seals
Supported Spells are Unsealed when cast, and their effects Reoccur for each Seal lost
Supported Skills deal (50-41)% less Damage when Reoccurring

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Spell Damage

This is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket.

Life Scaling: Forbidden Rite deals additional damage based on the Maximum Life and Energy Shield of the user of the skill. Temporary buffs to Life or Energy Shield such as Massive Shrines or buffs from HeadhunterHeadhunter
Leather BeltRequires Level 40+(25-40) to maximum Life+(40-55) to Strength
+(40-55) to Dexterity
+(50-60) to maximum Life
(20-30)% increased Damage with Hits against Rare monsters
When you Kill a Rare monster, you gain its Modifiers for 60 seconds"A man's soul rules from a cavern of bone, learns and
judges through flesh-born windows. The heart is meat.
The head is where the Man is."
- Lavianga, Advisor to Kaom will also boost the damage. When used with Spell Totem SupportSpell Totem SupportSupport, Spell, Totem
Icon: T
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 200%Requires Level 8Supports spell skills that are not triggered. Instead of casting that spell, you will summon a totem that casts the spell for you.Supported Skills deal (49-40)% less Damage
Supported Skills will summon a Totem which uses that Skill
Totem lasts 8 seconds
Supported Skills have 40% less Cast Speed

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Totem Placement speed

Projectiles: By default, Forbidden Rite fires a projectile near your cursor, as well as additional projectiles for each enemy within range. This means that on single target, two projectiles will hit the enemy. Sources of additional projectiles will only add projectiles to the initial cursor-targeted projectile, and not the extra projectiles fired towards nearby enemies. The projectiles appear to have an expanding ring-based hit distribution, and it is recommended not to get more than +4 additional projectiles from various sources due to the tendency for projectiles to miss on smaller single targets. The projectiles appear to have a homing behaviour and will bend towards targeted enemies. The projectile is ground targeted and does not benefit from Chain, Fork, Split, Pierce or any projectile behaviour modifiers. However, Projectile Speed will greatly reduce the time between casting the skill and the impact of the projectile, enhancing the skill performance against moving enemies.

Totems: The totem playstyle has several mechanics that bypass or mitigate the downsides while being able to efficiently scale the spell. For example, the unique Soul MantleSoul Mantle
Spidersilk RobeEnergy Shield: (202-257)
Movement Speed: -3%Requires Level 49, 134 IntSocketed Gems are Supported by Level 20 Spell Totem
(20-25)% increased Spell Damage
(100-120)% increased Energy Shield
(20-30)% increased Totem Life
Inflicts a random Hex on you when your Totems dieThe greatest mistakes cause suffering
long after they have been made acts as an effective 7-link, and scales Totem Life very well in addition to Torchoak StepTorchoak Step
Antique GreavesArmour: (219-316)Requires Level 37, 67 Str(80-120)% increased Armour
(20-30)% increased Totem Life
25% increased Movement Speed
(30-50)% increased Totem Placement speed
Totems Reflect 100% of their maximum Life as Fire Damage to nearby Enemies when HitCenturies ago, there existed a unique grove imbued with ancestral fire.
As with all things, the Karui used its wood for war., with much higher achievable Life values than self-cast. Rain of SplintersRain of Splinters
Crimson JewelLimited to: 1(50-30)% reduced Totem Damage
Totems fire 2 additional ProjectilesCorrupted"If one is an annoyance
then a hundred is a threat."
- Ancient Karui ProverbPlace into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket. adds 2 projectiles for lower opportunity cost than Volley SupportVolley SupportSupport, Projectile
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Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 4Supports skills that fire projectiles from the user. Does not affect projectiles fired from other locations as secondary effects. Does not support skills that fire projectiles in a spiral.Supported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles
Supported Skills also fire Projectiles from up to 2 points on each side of you
Supported Skills deal (12-3)% less Projectile Damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Projectile Damage

Medium Cluster JewelMedium Cluster JewelPlace into an allocated Medium or Large Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Added passives do not interact with jewel radiuses. Right click to remove from the Socket.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Chaos Damage	Extra Projectiles	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	16	41	8	15to22	6	0	0
2	20	50	8	21to31	6	49725	49725
3	24	58	9	28to42	6	95714	145439
4	28	67	10	37to56	6	169595	315034
5	31	73	11	46to69	6	199345	514379
6	34	79	12	56to84	6	285815	800194
7	37	85	13	68to102	6	401344	1201538
8	40	92	14	83to124	6	554379	1755917
9	43	98	15	100to151	6	755049	2510966
10	46	104	15	121to182	6	1016533	3527499
11	49	111	16	146to218	7	1898602	5426101
12	52	117	17	175to262	7	1964019	7390120
13	55	123	17	209to313	7	2573731	9963851
14	58	130	18	249to374	7	4676439	14640290
15	60	134	19	280to421	7	3017327	17657617
16	62	138	19	315to473	7	7823001	25480618
17	64	142	20	354to530	7	15264208	40744826
18	66	146	20	397to595	7	26272845	67017671
19	68	151	21	445to667	7	62872274	129889945
20	70	155	21	498to747	7	212023122	341913067
21	72	159	22	557to836	8	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	22	624to935	8	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	23	697to1046	8	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	23	779to1169	8	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	24	870to1305	8	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	24	972to1457	8	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	25	1084to1626	8	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	25	1209to1814	8	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	26	1348to2022	8	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	26	1502to2253	8	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	26	1585to2378	8	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	27	1673to2510	8	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	27	1766to2648	8	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	27	1863to2794	8	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	27	1966to2948	8	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	27	2074to3110	8	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	28	2187to3281	8	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	28	2307to3461	8	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	28	2433to3650	8	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	28	2566to3850	8	N/A	N/A

Item acquisition

Forbidden Rite can drop anywhere.

Recipes

Forbidden Rite can be created from the following recipes:

Amount	Part	Description	Meta
3	The Bitter BlossomThe Bitter Blossom3Level 21 Chaos Gem Quality: +23% CorruptedThe pain you feel is of no consequence, it is evolution, to be made whole within something greater.	Random corrupted level 21 Chaos gem with 23% quality	A
13	The CataclysmThe Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem CorruptedThe mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all.	Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem	A
6	The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb	Random level 20 gem	A
3	Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality: +20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter	Random gem with 20% quality	A
1	Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters.	Random gem with 1–20% quality	A
1	The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.	Random divination card set exchange	A

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Forbidden Rite.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Forbidden Rite Additional Projectile	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Forbidden Rite fires an additional Projectile	helmet 100
Enchantment Forbidden Rite Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Forbidden Rite Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Forbidden Rite Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Forbidden Rite Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Forbidden Rite Projectile Speed 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	20% increased Forbidden Rite Projectile Speed	helmet 100
Enchantment Forbidden Rite Projectile Speed 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	30% increased Forbidden Rite Projectile Speed	helmet 100

Version history

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