The Bodach

Overview

The Bodach is the pinnacle boss of Ritual, fought at the effigy in Caer Tarth. This strategy covers the repeatable version, opened with five Call of the Shadows rather than the one-time quest pieces. Every kill drops one guaranteed item, but the value of the farm sits in a small chance at Carved Majesty.

Setup

• Call of the Shadows x5 — placed on the effigy in Caer Tarth to open the fight, consumed every run. They come from Rite of the Nameless final ritual altars.
• Run time — about three minutes per run: roughly two and a half minutes for the fight plus 30 seconds for travel to Caer Tarth and placing the effigy pieces. This is an estimate for a good build clearing it cleanly, not a measured figure.

How These Numbers Were Calculated

• A model, not recorded runs — the figures are a synthetic 100-kill sample built from published drop rates: a 5% chance is counted five times, a guaranteed drop 56% of the time is counted 56 times. Expenses are one run's cost times the same 100 runs, and the hourly figure is that net total spread over an estimated three minutes per run.
• Thin source data — the wiki page on The Bodach is slim. Its drop rates are estimates from a single 100-kill sample on version 0.5.0, the guaranteed pool adds up to 102% rather than 100%, and Carved Cunning is listed only as under 1% and counted here as half a drop. The rates look plausible, but real results over a short run of kills will differ.

Close to 90% of the modelled profit comes from Carved Majesty at a 2% drop chance, which in a 100-kill sample means it was seen twice. Without it, the remaining drops do not cover the cost of the keys. Expect long stretches without one; a dry streak is normal, not evidence the strategy is broken.