Why all the ritualist hate?

I have a character for every primary. They are all good and relatively balanced. People won't take Rt's because they have no idea what they do.

Most people in the game don't have large enough brains to comprehend anything beyond tanker/nuker/healer groups. QFT

That's basically the problem, well don't know whether its brainpower or more a comfort feeling some classes give.

When there were 6 classes only it was the Mesmer that was seldom used or wanted, ranger was pretty out of it too.

Ever since then all the new classes have been tested against the top 4 original classes.
The four most recent classes have all had their day in the limelight as new builds were discovered exploited then went out of fashion.

The result is its back to the basic 3 of Warrior Monk and Ele with the Necro in fourth place.
Anet gave us variety Player style and fads are trying to give us mediocrity.

Its also true that some classes need more player skill to do well.

Ritualists counts as healers, aside from the monks. They can also support, maybe better than the monk. You just need to find people who have a vast concept of strategies. They aren't better than Monks and they can't use Protection and Monk doesn't have to lay down spirits which takes time.Rits are good at takeing out Shiro.

Rits are kl, and have much better energy mngement then monks in the form of OoS, better protection spell in the form of WoW (which needs a nerf) why is it better ? because it cant be rended, Spawning here can add 1-2 seconds to this spell which in a tight spot is useful. Rits are better at AoE heals PwK and Life, and they have better survival with PwK adding 24 armor when held. Still communing is a retarded line, and anet proved they hate it too by moving Xinraes. There is rit hate in PvP as well as PvE, Rits have been called Wannabe monks (which is kinda funny)
wow is balanced now... rend needs a nerf, being able to strip any preprot without having to invest any point in an attribute is retarded, but a 1 second cast unstrippable prot that can't be maintained on more than 1 character isn't

btw, pvp rits are mostly used for 2 skills : kaolai and wow, which make them very good defensive support

as both are in restauration magic, rits have free points to invest to do something else (spike assist, snare, run...)

Because its so overpowered? nah, why all the paragon hate? Paragon is leetest prof in gw still ppl hate it I heard there was an Ursan nerf (thats what I HEARD)
Therefor, NOT LEET ANYMORE! lol.
People hate Paras because there is not enough versatability...They were only there to make Ursan even easier then it was...

I heard there was an Ursan nerf (thats what I HEARD)
Therefor, NOT LEET ANYMORE! lol.
People hate Paras because there is not enough versatability...They were only there to make Ursan even easier then it was...
SY! TNTF? lulzduh

Rits are kl, and have much better energy mngement then monks in the form of OoS, better protection spell in the form of WoW (which needs a nerf) why is it better ? because it cant be rended, Spawning here can add 1-2 seconds to this spell which in a tight spot is useful. Rits are better at AoE heals PwK and Life, and they have better survival with PwK adding 24 armor when held. blah blah blah whoa whoa whoa whoa...
rits are significantly less effective healers than monks pve and pvp. most of their use comes from spirits which are slow. they also have one (1) protection spell which costs a significant amount of energy and had a long recharge and a long cast time (yes 1 second is long, especially when rit's are typically holding an item such as some guys ashes or a flag, thus no cast or recharge bonuses). Rits DO have Mend Body which is decent but its decency is heavily relied on spirits.
The main issue with rits, while they are, imo, the coolest looking class in the game (rit fow is my #1 armor set and their casting animations are awesome), is they arent the best class at anything. theyre ok at everything, while all other classes are best at something. Rits are an ideal support class due to their versitility, but its often just better to take a different class, one that does something proficiently.

whoa whoa whoa whoa...
rits are significantly less effective healers than monks pve and pvp. most of their use comes from spirits which are slow. they also have one (1) protection spell which costs a significant amount of energy and had a long recharge and a long cast time (yes 1 second is long, especially when rit's are typically holding an item such as some guys ashes or a flag, thus no cast or recharge bonuses). Rits DO have Mend Body which is decent but its decency is heavily relied on spirits.
Ahh... and it continues.

The epic battle between Monks and Rit healers. IMO monks are easier to use and in general more mobile. Monks have a sublime primary attribute and plenty of nice skills in healing, protection and whatnot. Lotsa hex removals also do the class well, seeing as the rit has none. when it comes down to the monk's attributes Protection is a very versatile attribute, Divine Favor has [Healer's Boon] which is awesome if you know how to use it, but when Healing Prayers comes out hold on to your hat! Super skills like [Word of Healing] and the bar that goes with it is probably saved in every monks playbook. Mashing the keyboard with WoH and others like [Reversal of Fortune] in your bar should keep every (smart) person alive for quite some time, but this brings up the monks ability to use energy and skills effectively. I have seen many a monk players seem to spam WoH on recharge... on themselves if they lost 50 or so health. Not good. I would think these were veteran players too, having FoW armor, Tormented weapons, all that good stuff.

In my experience playing both classes (monk was my favorite when the game came out, but when factions was released I ditched the monk) rits do have better energy management. If you manage to lay down a spirit or two ahead of time you'll be better off in the long run, able to lay down [Weapon of Warding] and watch [Rejuvenation] and other spirits do a chunk of work for you. Rits also have skills in the resto line that steal health ([Weapon of Remedy]) and non-elite skills that blind ([Weapon of Shadow], [Blind was Mingson]), something the monk cannot do. Monks can deal damage with smiting prayers, but are better off using skills that target allies ([Reversal of Damage], [Smite Hex], [Smite Condition]) to take full advantage of Divine Favor. ATM though i dont see anyone seriously using smiting.

It seems the only reason Rits don't have the AWESOME GODLY POWERS OF THE MONK is because they were released later on, having less skills. This results in the cookie cutter builds we see, consisting of only the few useful skills. Plus with attributes like.... Communing (pukes in mouth), rits will never have the on demand protection monks have. Defensive spirits die too quickly and take too long to set up.

In the end, I guess everyone will turn to monks as the better healer, but when it comes to raw healing power is either class better than the other? We may never know...