I think the Ritualist is almost dead.....

I'm slowing changing the attitudes towards Ritualists one PuG at a time...

Last night, I just got done soloing (without henchmen) the Dunes of Despair bonus with my Rt/E, and noticed a group was looking for a necrotic transversal necro to do the bonus. Unfortunately, this poor group had heard of the trick, but had absolutely no idea how to pull it off (i.e. no vampiric weapons at all).

So, I joined their group and soloed the bonus for them. They were quite impressed with the power of a ritualist... That's the spirit. Keep up the good work . I myself am very surprised at the utter lack of rit knowledge the player base has. In the past, some groups have invited me purely because they didn't know what a rit could do...

I wouldn't call em 'tanks' ^_^. That's my main problem with using one at the mo. I really don't like light-armour melee... They're really not that frail. With stats at 12 Weapon/13 Spawning/9 Tactics, using a full Ghostforge armor (+15AL in weapon spell) and a shield (+45/-2 while enchanted is best imo cause if you're not enchanted you shouldn't be in melee in the first place), you have 91 base AL. If you use Watch Yourself!, it raises to 108AL.

We used Rt/Ws in GvG and they don't go down any easier than a warrior

Like I said before, you have no basis to say that elementalists can overpower ritualists when you are basing that on... well... nothing really. Fortunately for me, I only need to be a ritualist to know they can outdamage an ele, because ive done so... many many... wonderful times.... ahhh great times. And no, I'm not just talking about 1 on 1 scrimmages. Though I do feel insulted that you think im a nobody, I care about scrimmages.

Of course, I use Lyssa's Balance in my build, so har har to your silly regen.



That's true. Anyone who plays a rit will try to make comparisons towards other classes, and then base their abilities on that. Its a really stupid thing to do - and it's exactly what happened with the Mesmer, right up until Nightfall came out and the Mesmers' increased attire of offensive, high damaging skills. They're capable of pulling off a 400 untyped damage spike in 4 seconds - every 30 seconds. But nobody looks at that.

For those who know how to play a ritualist properly, they are entirely capable of... you know what? They're like females, capable of doing many things at once.... there you go - how about them apples^^.

But if there is one thing I would love for the negatives to take away with them, it's this:

Ritualists are the masters of skill SYNERGY. Every skill works well and works even better with other attribute lines. Ritualists work much, much more effectively when there are two of them. They have a high DPS and the longest term DPS on a single target in the game (I don't care how many times you think they don't. They do.)
When it comes to synergy with 2, the elementalist has similar co-op ability. Still, no one cares (it's so annoying). Also, 1 v 1 is rubbish. A build can be constructed to take out any opposing class, as long as you know what that class is. It holds no value.

What it all boils down to is this; The Ritualist has potential. They can do a lot of good but they are highly precarious creatures. Highly situational. Obviously too much so for most people (high-end or low) to deal with.
They are a class who's variety and flexibility is their key attribute. They exist however in an environment(meta-game) that requires efficiency and strength in a particular area. That strength (in this environment) unfortunately can't be flexibility. The only thing that they can do differently is Spirits, but we all know how well they work in pvp...

Maybe it's just the way people want to play the game (en-mass). Until flexibility becomes a key component in mid-high end pvp, Ritualists will be rare and the hate will be common.


EDIT: I did see quite a few in HA though. Spirit-spamming (using Recovery to remove Conditions faster etc) to power Necro's. HA however is now the gutter as far as I'm concerned.
Especially when all I see is "5/6 lf 1 more SF ele to complete team!". Can Anet please either nerf this skill or improve it's counters? Do something? It's not over-powered but it's over-used...