My Spirit Spammer needs improvement

Who votes for a name change of the profession?! Flaggist?

I guess the OP is trying to do damage, if so, then stick with Channeling. Lots of damage and good energy management. People underestimate [destruction], mainly because it just sits there. But its damage is armor-ignoring, the recharge is fast, and it's very cheap. [ancestor's rage][splinter weapon][spirit rift] are all strong aoe as well, and [offering of spirit] is excellent energy management to top it all off.

I've never been a fan of communing, because the skills are too expensive, take too long to cast, and I don't think really do good damage for the cost. Since a Rit's primary attribute is garbage and thus totally optional, you can fully spec into Restoration as well. [life] is an incredible binding ritual, and a bigger help to your team than you may at first realize. [blind was mingson] is a truly great defensive spell (and heroes use it VERY effectively), and of course [mend body and soul] works wonders when you have a lot of spirits down. Let's not forget [spirit light] of course.

An efficient Rit build can lay down serious damage and provide excellent healing support with incredible ease. Only a monk with [smiter's boon] (PVE version, of course... sneer) comes close to that kind of efficiency. The biggest thing about spirits is what I call "portability." A portable spirit is one that doesn't take long to cast (3 seconds), and recharges fast (preferably less than 30 seconds). That offers you a lot more flexibility in with your other skills. Being forced into using [ritual lord] means the recharge is too long. Being forced to use Summon Spirits means that it either takes too long to cast the spirits and have them all ready for the next skirmish, or the recharge (again) is too long, or even both. Those are anti-"my spirits slow me down" skills. To be most efficient, you don't want your spirits slowing you down. The spirits are supposed to make the build efficient. The build should never have to make the spirits efficient.

i still fail to see how OoS is worth an elite slot..
15 sec recharge=no spam, so woohoo i gain a net 10-11 energy every 15 seconds? if i looked, i could find tons better elites or even non elites that can give you more energy.

i would agree w/ the OP's elite... 5 e regen is all u need, and for 10 secs u got it. the health loss isnt a problem at all

i may not be a pro rit... im just saying that mathematically OoS sucks as an elite Yeah but here's the thing, there's non-elites that really should practically be elite! Splinter anyone?

Also, there's not many other decent rit elites. Sometimes you might see [expel hexes] or some other secondary elite on a rit but not often.

i still fail to see how OoS is worth an elite slot..
15 sec recharge=no spam, so woohoo i gain a net 10-11 energy every 15 seconds? if i looked, i could find tons better elites or even non elites that can give you more energy.

i would agree w/ the OP's elite... 5 e regen is all u need, and for 10 secs u got it. the health loss isnt a problem at all

i may not be a pro rit... im just saying that mathematically OoS sucks as an elite How the hell would rits manage energy?

And I don't hate rits

Anet really needs to consider some sort of target system for spirits. They're not even that powerful. Mr. Derv, you should know, 1 mystic sweep on a group of spirits kills them all so it won't be OP. Rits have NO other good energy management. Spirit channeling? that's strippable. REsilient was w/e (the ashes) horrible just horrible....

With no good e-management, people turn to necros to get the job done. That's not the only thing wrong with rits...Spawning needs to be buffed....max spawning gives like what? 3 seconds extra on a Wep of Warding? big deal...

Flaggist?

I guess the OP is trying to do damage, if so, then stick with Channeling. Lots of damage and good energy management. Spirit damage is armor ignoring and many channeling lightning damage spells are not. Therefore offensive spirits in combination with painfull bond can perfectly well compete with a channeling build in my opinion.
Particular in HM areas offensive spirits are usefull, of course with the mobility that summon spirits offers.

Spirit damage is armor ignoring and many channeling lightning damage spells are not. Therefore offensive spirits in combination with painfull bond can perfectly well compete with a channeling build in my opinion.
Particular in HM areas offensive spirits are usefull, of course with the mobility that summon spirits offers. Exactly, I'm going to upload a better quality video. Armor ignoring kicks butt in high armor areas. (Titans, Behemoths, Golems, Distroyers etc.) Where you do 111 damage on a burning titan with [vapor blade] when you can do 216 in 1 sync attack.
Another Example: Your going up against a Destroyer of Flesh. He has 500 health. Your [water trident] does 60 damage against his 100 armor and knocks him down. That's 12% of his health.
Now you have five spirits up. Pain, Anguish, Shadowsong, Bloodsong and Vampirism. You have those spirits up before battle. You engage the Destroyer with 500 health and cast Painful Bond. 30+18+40+18+18+21+15+18+18=196 (200) He is blinded and loses 40% of his health.

Would you rather take away 40% or 12%?
Spirits have a fairly good targeting system. They attack what you attack. Once the target dies they do what the please until you attack another target. However, not all spirits will always attack your target, this happens mostly when the first target dies. Most of the time they do.

Another problem with spirits is order killing. Your going against 2 Rishan hunk titans. This is HM and Fist/Hands are very powerful. Your spirits and team attacks the hulk and kills it, No problem, the other hulk takes some damage, good. Your casting another Shadowsong spell (5 seconds) and both hulks are hexed with Painful Bond. During those five seconds your spirits attack 3 times. (~500 damage) and the hulk dies. Now you have Hands and Fists running around everywhere. Your monks are going to have a hard time even with SoD

I was wonder what can I do to increase damage and increase survivability. Can it be improved?

Powerful? Ya, maybe if Anet allowed rits to select a target for their spirits. The fact is if u are an OFFENSIVE spirit rit, it takes way too long to set up you spirits. You can't even get them to focus fire. Secondly, defensive spirit rits are effective and decent however the spirits aren't very strong and spirits like shelter and displacement are usually down before the fight is half over. A rit CAN select spirit targets. Just call a target, although a spirit will prioritize something that attacks him.
It doesn't take too long to set them up because you go into battle with the old ones, and during a battle you can recast them.