Help me understand

Right, i've enver played a ritualist before so maybe I'm not understanding the mechanics when I say this but...

Why does ANYONE use displacement and shelter?

Displacement blocks 4-6 attacks before dying for 15 energy, 3 second cast and 45 second recharge?

Shelter is an awful PS. 25 energy, 5 second cast, 45 recharge for again stopping 4-6 attacks from doing over 10% damage?


To be honest I see shelter alot less but people seem to think displacement has a use. If i'm correct about the number of blocks it manages before dying then please tell me why anyone uses it? ever? And if i'm not correct then how does the mechanics work? It depends on rest of your build.

Displacement can mean much needed break in enemy pressure, long enough to let monks catch breath.

It prevents other spirits (Shetler, Union) from triggering so its kind of buffer before them.

It can be used to fill in gaps in defence of more durable stuff like Wards/Aegis or complement Shaddowsong and turn 90% of miss to 0.98 miss.

Its worth it for N/Rts who would use it basically for free.

Its recharge can be fixed by variety of tools.

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Bottom line is, if you use this skill alone and just for blocks, you are doing it wrong.

Why does ANYONE use displacement and shelter? For near complete damage reduction in RA or TA? (Combined with Union, Ritual Lord, Boon of Creation, Empowerment, and MwV)

Hah, well atleast I wasn't getting it wrong. Maybe these skills could use a bit of a boost because although they're targetted and not party wide Weapon of Warding and (from monk) Aegis, Guardian and PS/SB make these spirits pointless. Yea, pretty much a Prot Monk or a DA Paragon can do better things for a team than a communing rit can, communing has needed a change/revamp for over a year now, well that and spawning power.
So yea, you aren't getting it wrong, most communing binding rituals are useless outside of RA/TA, other professions do these jobs so much better.

Yea, pretty much a Prot Monk or a DA Paragon can do better things for a team than a communing rit can I have to disagree. If you mean better protection for a team, then I am inclined to agree. However, communing Rit has some things that the others decidedly lack. Spells such as Vital Weapon and Brutal Weapon can make a big difference as they can be reliably maintained on multiple targets. Spirits can be used to distract the enemy or deal extra damage. Also, Shadowsong should not be underrated.

Communing Rit is a lot more than just reducing damage by big numbers. Someone who thinks they are doing something for the team by spamming Union and Shelter, probably need to rethink their strategy.

I have to disagree. If you mean better protection for a team, then I am inclined to agree. However, communing Rit has some things that the others decidedly lack. Spells such as Vital Weapon and Brutal Weapon can make a big difference as they can be reliably maintained on multiple targets. Spirits can be used to distract the enemy or deal extra damage. Also, Shadowsong should not be underrated.

Communing Rit is a lot more than just reducing damage by big numbers. Someone who thinks they are doing something for the team by spamming Union and Shelter, probably need to rethink their strategy. Vital Weapon is overated, there are better weapon spells to put on ppl (unless youre facing some spike team in PvP, in PvE, it wont matter much), brutal weapon is useful in ranger spikes, but generally splinter and nightmare are better. Shadowsong can't be kept up indefinitely (without extra skills), and falls prey to blinding bad targets (spellcasters), an ele blindbot is usually better, especially since he has a chance of blinding multiple targets. Now, if you are talking about the norn tourny, RA, or TA, then a communing rit is good, combined with painful bond and a bunch of attacking spirits, other than that, there are professions that do a much better job.

Displacement blocks 4-6 attacks before dying for 15 energy, 3 second cast and 45 second recharge?

Shelter is an awful PS. 25 energy, 5 second cast, 45 recharge for again stopping 4-6 attacks from doing over 10% damage? A typical spiritspammer runs ~15 communing and 13 spawning. At those levels, shelter has 319 health and loses 45 health per hit. That means it stops 8 attacks from doing over 10% damage, which is pretty nice against hard hitting stuff (bosses and HM monsters). Displacement has 380 health and loses 60 heal per hit, meaning it'll stop 7 attacks from hitting completely. Against sins, it could be huge. In PvE (especially HM), it greatly helps the monks in preventing damage.

In practicality, the spirits will soak up and prevent ~300-500 damage, making it just as effective as trying to heal with restoration magic.

and then i also take [skill]signet of binding[/skill] plus [skill]ritual lord[/skill]. Those are so awesome for protective spirits. [skill]signet of creation[/skill] can be usefull in a lot of cases, as well. Even better in some situations.