Guardian… The Scorn are preparing another disgusting ritual in your sector.
—Spider, Ether Harvest
Ether Harvest, also known as Ether Ritual, is a Public Event added in Forsaken.
Location
Accessible
Vaulted
Overview
An Ether harvester spawns in the middle of the event area, and three broken Servitors appear on the ground around it. A Dredge Chieftain will spawn next to one of the broken Servitors, along with other Scorn enemies. Defeating the Chieftain will cause blue Ether orbs to be emitted from the Servitor. The orbs will fly toward the harvester in the center of the area, where they will be absorbed. When three Chieftains are killed, an Ether Abomination will spawn. Defeating it completes the event.
The Ether orbs can be destroyed by players. Shooting an orb counts as a precision hit, and destroying it will trigger traits that require precision kills. This means that weapons with traits that are triggered by precision hits (e.g. Rapid Hit), precision kills (e.g. Outlaw), or kills in general (e.g. Subsistence, Rampage) can be useful for quickly destroying the orbs without much downtime needed for reloading. Weapons that can provide sustained fire, like Auto Rifles, can also be helpful.
To make this event Heroic, players have to destroy all of the Ether orbs released from the broken Servitors once their Chieftains are dead. After all of the Ether is destroyed, the event becomes Heroic. In the Tangled Shore and Dreaming City, the Reanimated Machinist from the Forsaken campaign will spawn. In the Throne World, the boss will be a Chieftain with an Arc shield named Ksimikaa the Painsmith. The Heroic event is completed when the boss is killed.
