Ressurection of the Ritual Lord

The recent change to the 'pve' version or rt lord sparked my memory of the old build that got it's head split open w/ the nerf bat. Anywhoo, after playing around a bit this is what i came up with.

Once you get the hang of the timing & how the skills cycle through you can pretty much keep the spirits up forever. With the small bit of testing i've done so far it seems to be just about as effective as it used to. Of course, there is a limit to how fast you can spam the spirits, but if you're at it they're pretty much dieing the second you cast them & obviously have other problems. =p

Anyway, C&C / "gtfo n00b" comments are welcome.

Full radiant/attunement w/ sup spawning & headpiece. Signet of binding is of course optional should your group wish you to have a res.



[Prot RtLord;OAajAyhDJPIDnJ4PYa9e2PuwJA]

I LOVED this build.
It is the reason why I adore my ritualist as much as I do.
BUT if you look the the numbers provided by the skills - it makes me wonder if it's worth it.
Look at Shelter.
It has 200 hp and it loses 50 per hit.
A 25 energy, 5 secs casting skill will protect you from 4 hits!
Same thing with Displacement.
Union isn't that bad - but one skill out of 8 not being bad isn't what I'd call nice.

The problem is that [protective spirit] and [aegis] do what your WHOLE build does.
And sadly better.

What is the purpose of GoLE? u have 2 spells, and u barely use them.

Otherwise looks good.

gole is a bit overkill imo u have plenty of energy imo,but i also have 1 hero bring blood ritual

Or let GolE in and change [Boon of Creation] with [Spirit's Gift], that works to.

btw, sweet build, only you need to be careful how do you use the [Signet of Binding] skill.

I'd love to see the come back of [Ritual lord] builds in PvE but until they buff spirits to where they're more than just dust in the wind and lower the energy cost on [shelter], I just don't see much of a point atm.

Sorry.

The killer nerfs to the rit lord build were the reduction of energy return from boon, the increase in spirit energy cost, and the decrease in spirit effectiveness. Making rit lord better doesn't matter at all.

First off, thanks for your input. The only crit I can really fully agree with is Upier on the health level of Shelter, which is why I used [signet of binding]. I suppose you could also [signet of creation] instead since it would apply to all spirits instead of just the one. But i put that in there out of concern for the hp level of shelter. Prot spirit and aegis may have better numbers, however prot spirit doesn't affect your entire party, and w/ that recharge time your uptime for aegis is only roughly 1/3rd of the time (forgive me if i missed anything there, my monk became a mule ages ago).

Now, I fully understand that the heavy hit to the old build was energy due to nerfing [boon of creation] and e cost for [shelter] and not [ritual lord] itself, i simply said the new change sparked my memory of it. However, the e-management issues is precisely what this build addresses. It doesn't matter that boon was nerfed and [shelter] costs 25e, because this gives you enough constant energy gain to keep them all up indefinately. The longest you will ever have to wait to cast off a spirit due to energy is rough 1.5 seconds. For reiteration, high nrg costs are a moot point if you've got the energy pool to pull it off regardless, which is basically the whole point of this build.....to have enough energy to maintain the three spirits INDEFINATELY.

I know GoLE probably looks like overkill, and it may be, I havn't tried it yet w/o it. As for the reason for putting it there, just more e-mngmnt. But I'll try it out later w/o it & see how it goes.

"WTB good defensive spirits"
until than, sry but no...
*throws Rit Lord out the window*

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