Ritualists: One Big Joke?

Rits are great utility, as has been already mentioned skills like [splinter weapon] and [ancestor's rage] work wonders in PvE.

Something that hasn't been brought up yet is the Rit's synergy with [ursan blessing]. Set up a spirit tower with [pain][shadowsong][bloodsong][painful bond][summon spirits] and [ursan blessing], leaving you two more slots to add in some resurrection or a handy PvE skill like [pain inverter] or [finish him]. Move the tower with [summon spirits], enter [ursan blessing] and do some nice damage. This is great for HM because all of the spirit damage goes through armor. no thank you

Anyone who thinks (insert class here) is a joke obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. Every class has its merits, and can perform well in different situations. It's just that the playerbase is too stupid to know that, and prefer cookie-cutter stuff that's been proven to work even with the stupidest of players playing on it. /signed
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Anyone who thinks (insert class here) is a joke obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. Every class has its merits, and can perform well in different situations. It's just that the playerbase is too stupid to know that, and prefer cookie-cutter stuff that's been proven to work even with the stupidest of players playing on it. Amen to that. People will always flock to overly simplistic builds that even a blindfolded monkey could play, no matter how crappy the build might be.

Rits have somewhat of the same concept with infinite energy with the usage of [Offering of Spirit] Sorry, but offering of spirit comes nowhere close to soul reaping, not even somewhat.

1) OoS is an elite that takes up a slot, SR is an attribute that every necro uses
2) OoS gets a max of 18 energy every 15 seconds, SR gets a max of 48 energy every 15 seconds.

OoS is good energy management on a ritualist, but certainly does not give ritualists close to infinite energy.

1) OoS is an elite that takes up a slot, SR is an attribute that every necro uses
2) OoS gets a max of 18 energy every 15 seconds, SR gets a max of 48 energy every 15 seconds. I'd like to point out that OoS also requires 5 energy and has a chance to be interrupted (never mind how little) in certain areas. It can have its recharge manipulated still, however.

I'd probably go with a Necro considering that what a Ritualist can do other professions can do more efficiency in some places, but a Splinter Weapon at 14 and above spec can really have a large impact on the damage capabilities of your party.

Anyone who thinks (insert class here) is a joke obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. Every class has its merits, and can perform well in different situations. It's just that the playerbase is too stupid to know that, and prefer cookie-cutter stuff that's been proven to work even with the stupidest of players playing on it. So tell us what the rit is good at.

Too true.

I think this is the reason why the most popular professions are Warriors and Monks. Anyone can use them with little effort. I’m not dumping on these classes, but both are relatively easy to use. Everyone and their mother has a warrior. With hardly anything to really think about you can just auto-attack and spam adrenal skills.

Now when people get to playing more complicated classes, they get confused. They'll say, "Wait, if I use a Mesmer I have to target certain enemies and actually look at the skills they're using???" IMO Mesmer, Ritualist and the Paragon take the most effort (if you call it effort) to use. Paragon is by far the least used. Sure they are kinda imbalanced atm, but people feel frightened when they have to adjust their build to what's coming up next or who's in the party. (Mind you, the imbagon is an all-around, useful for anything build, but it's just another reason the paragon is in need of a change)

After some people try these types of professions, they'll go back to playing their pet prof., knowing it’s just easier to use. Considering Frenzy is the most balanced skill in the game, I do believe your claim that Warriors don't take skill is wrong. You really don't know what your talking about on the account of skillful profession usage - I mean, I can say Ranger takes more skill than Mesmer because there's line of sight introduced in their interrupting. The same about Warriors in your post can be said about Paragons by the way. (Oh, and I'm not starting an argument here on skillful profession usage, just placing a small observation into words)

Anyone who thinks (insert class here) is a joke obviously doesn't know what they're talking about. Every class has its merits, and can perform well in different situations. It's just that the playerbase is too stupid to know that, and prefer cookie-cutter stuff that's been proven to work even with the stupidest of players playing on it. stupidest - gg.
You go on and on about how everyone is dumb and then you say "stupidest". E-P-I-C

stupidest - gg.
You go on and on about how everyone is dumb and then you say "stupidest". E-P-I-C lol if you wanna look cool bashing someone's grammar ( masamune in this case, who has a huge reputation btw) be sure to google it before, you might want to avoid epic fails like the one you just did. Stupidest is not a mistake, it's the superlative form. I thought someone fitting the adjective meaning as perfectly as you do would at least know the spelling. Btw dictionary.com is your friend.


Back in topic, I was sure the best form of energy management was a smart player but I might be wrong

To the guy bashing wars and monks, no they aren't the easiest classes to play, they are among the hardest.

To the other guy wanting to know what ritus do better than necros, for starters they can buff up party dmg better than necros/rt. And for energy if you're smart you won't spam skills mindlessy, usually my pve battles end up before I've burned half of my energy pool. I'd rather take a mark of pain/barbs curses necro over a n/rt for casual pve, so things would die even faster. All of this with the shittiest among primaries.

Back in topic, I was sure the best form of energy management was a smart player but I might be wrong That's really only a segment of the equation, at least to yours truly.