Does Razah have a full set of Ritualist skills when you get him?

err try random battles and get balth faction to unlock more skills if he is limited in skills, soz that seemd a bit obvious to me >< And the bit where I mentioned...

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..Seemed obvious to me!!!

err try random battles and get balth faction to unlock more skills if he is limited in skills, soz that seemd a bit obvious to me >< Wouldn't that only work if you own Factions?

err try random battles and get balth faction to unlock more skills if he is limited in skills, soz that seemd a bit obvious to me >< You fail.

With what is required to get him, he should have a full bar of elite skills.

Pkest he would get balthazar faction and unlock nightfall rit skills. I understand that you could unlock nightfall rit skill via pvp faction but since there are no core rit skills a nightfall only rit with 25 skills or w/e is pretty useless

PS. All these poorly veiled attempts to make players buy other chapters should be a hint that Guild Wars isn't doing as well as everyone thinks and that Arena Net doesn't care as much about its supporters as people think. Wake up ppl, Anet is a company and companies need to make money to survive. Companies never care about there costumers, they say they do, but in the end its only there stockholders that realy count. They dont charge monthly fees, all there GW money comes from selling chapters. So selling chapters is the survival of Anet.

And IMHO, the idea of selling chapters and not asking a monthly fee was great for the first chapter but will be the dead of GW after a few chapters.

The total amount of players will stay the same but they will be so spread out that 90% of the mission towns will be empty then. Most ppl are in a small to semi-small guild and even at the moment with only 3 chapters most of the prophecies towns are empty (impossible to get a group), wth, its even impossible to get a full human group in some NF mission towns already.

just my 2 cents

way to go off-topic.

Offensive spirit spam (the thing most wanted Razah for) the placement is pretty bad, and requires you to play him manually most of the time, locking his spirit skills otherwise he ll use up the spell long before battle and place a Bloodsong somewhere on the plain

Basically, if you want to use Razah, make a healer or channeler build. He is good enough for both.
I own faction and all the rt spirits skills... and I simply just make Master of Whisper using spirit, and.... AI can handle them well! *I use Communing 12, Soul Reaping 13+, and 1 or 2 curse spell* *No need Rt Lord, I always prefer Wanderlust's elite spirit knockdown attack*

Hero AI "Don't" spam ritualist offensive spirit in middle of no where!!! (Unlike ranger spirits)

I don't even need to lock his skill at all. And I'm sure Master of Whisper share same AI level with Rt Hero AI. Hero AI "will" cast binding ritual spirit when my group start attacking, so does Defensive spirits! So there wouldn't be a problem on worry Rt Hero AI.

I'd say for player who has own faction, or familar with ritualist skills, the new Rt hero is worth to get for sure.

i think the main point in this thread is:

Is Ritualist Hero worth the trouble and value (price of the 4 different gems) in comparison to its potential usefulness as a HERO in a party?

The answer atm is NO and its more like a vanity "item" currently more than anything else.

Edit: I agree, for someone without factions, its practically worthless. I play a ritualist primary, and rits works best in pairs, it's a very effective profession. So yes, I'd think he's more than worth it because of the rarity of finding other rits and the headaches of getting someone else to work with you on a two-rit setup