New to Rt needs advice

Thanks, Pick Me and Silver Fang, for the helpful posts. The thing that was so impressive about the Ritualist I saw was her ability to restore the entire party to full health (or close to it) after a couple Shiro-ken elementalists laid down some nuke on us.

Even with 16 Divine Spirit and 15 Healing Prayer, my monk can't fix up that kind of damage that fast (if you've been to Raisure Palace, you know what I'm taking about - the whole party 3/4 dead in a second). It convinced me that there are some situations where a Ritualist might actually be BETTER as a party healer than a monk.

But I have also noticed that a Ritualist takes a lot more skill to play than a monk. A monk is point and click. A Rt has a lot more to worry about placing spirits and stuff. I still looking forward to getting Ritual Lord -- but it's been a slow process. PUGs dont clamour to get a Rt like they do for a monk You have it easy as a Rt/N, you can advertise yourself as a MM and you can get Flesh Golem fairly early in the game compare to the useful ritualist elite. ritual lord, attuned was and vengeful was. pump up your attribute on spawning power, Death magic and restoration(Death should be at 12)

use boon of creation since the summon use lots of energy.

Anyway, the order or casting spirit is important once you got ritual lord

Shelter -> Union -> Displacement have different effect than
Union -> Shelter -> Displacement

Displacement always cast after Shelter and Union, the order of Shelter and Union have different effect.

1 Union -> Shelter = you take 10% of Max HP - 15 damage or damage - 15.
2 Shelter -> Union = you take 10% Max HP damage or damage -15.

#1 can make your take less damage if the damage you going to take is more than 10% of Max HP
#2 can make Shelter lives longer if the damage you going to take is less than 10% MAX HP + 15

so, if you constanly taking 80 damage in a area, Union -> Shelter is better, otherwise if the damage you taken is about 45-55 or 50, its better to use Shelter -> Union

Thanks, Pick Me and Silver Fang, for the helpful posts. The thing that was so impressive about the Ritualist I saw was her ability to restore the entire party to full health (or close to it) after a couple Shiro-ken elementalists laid down some nuke on us.

Even with 16 Divine Spirit and 15 Healing Prayer, my monk can't fix up that kind of damage that fast (if you've been to Raisure Palace, you know what I'm taking about - the whole party 3/4 dead in a second). It convinced me that there are some situations where a Ritualist might actually be BETTER as a party healer than a monk.

But I have also noticed that a Ritualist takes a lot more skill to play than a monk. A monk is point and click. A Rt has a lot more to worry about placing spirits and stuff. I still looking forward to getting Ritual Lord -- but it's been a slow process. PUGs dont clamour to get a Rt like they do for a monk People tend to be more ignorant about the Ritualist because they are not as familiar with them as they are with a Monk. So don't fret, they'll come around.

I've always considered Rits as a party healer and a Monk as an individual healer.

personally i prefer the offensive side of rits... DOOM ftw


but this is inspiring a class change for me Doom is SO LOVELY when you don't have Rit Lord and are in dire need of offense. Using it on a Afflicted Warrior while he uses Frenzy makes me smile so much.

Unless it's a Rt/N though, I've yet to see an effective offensive ritualist early in the game. The Ritualist normally plays healer early game until Rit Lord where it becomes a permanent Prot Spirit + Shielding Hands + Distortion when used effectively. I do have a big question though, does Rit Lord work on Ranger's Nature Spirits?

I do have a big question though, does Rit Lord work on Ranger's Nature Spirits? Yes it does.

I was thinking about a Ranger Spirit Spammer(using Ranger as Main profession), using maybe energizing wind and quicken spirit. Then you can use preservation or wanderlust elite instead of Ritual lord. This of course cannot sub Ritual lord for protection ritual lord since the spirit die too fast, at least 75% recharge is needed.