can a rit mm?

can a ritualist be a good mm without using the "explosive creation" "minion bomber" builds?

One minion bomber is already vetted on PvxWiki, but I find it too complicated. I mean, rits should use ashes and summon spirits, sometimes heal with weapon spells/normal spells. And necros have, even when nerfed, better e-management to do that.

Mo, not really, but explosive minion bomber build are imho better than traditional necro MM. At least when used by heroes who can micro it perfectly.

Heroes do have trouble maintaining Enchants, so it's a tradeoff. Initially, luck will get you the Death Nova targets you need, and further practice will improve what is widely considered the weakest part of the build: the player's ability (or willingness) to mouse-select minions for Death Nova.

Without Boon of Creation and Explosive growth, how do you have the energy/PB-AOE/minion levels/minion armor to compete with the Necro's 2 minion advantage, all of which are better than the Rits, except for higher HP? Granted, the Necro focuses more on DPS than AOE.

To this day, even though I wrote a guide on it, (some critics say because of it,) people consider the Rit Minion Bomber a "gimmick" build. It's so outside what most people consider as the Rit's "job," as Abe states, yet it's surprising effective, but it's yet to be significantly nerfed or buffed. GW:EN may finally kill it off, or propel it into the limelight.

I've been a fan of the good old explosive creation build, but I did do some experimenting with a more standard MM build. Using Attuned was Songkai and boon of creation, I had no energy problems with creating 8 Bone fiends, but I might not have been as effective as a standard necro MM. It's possible, but don't be LFG and expect anyone to accept you, even if you were better, they wouldn't believe it.

now ive found that a rit mm can be effective. the experience we had was in a guild group and we started out with an mm and a rit mm bomber. the mm complained he wasnt getting any minion so we zoned back and the mm changed to another charactor and the rit remained as a rit bomber. i noticed really no difference in the performance of the group so the rit was just as effective as ana mm in this group but this was a guild group that groups together a lot so we were well organized

I find Rit MMs more effective than necro MMs. spirit bond really makes it an entire team support build. taking 2 conditions off of all your melee characters and healing them for 100hp is pretty darn useful.

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