Signet of Spirits

Well I just logged in game to check this skill out and quite frankly I'm blown away.

Signet of Spirits: increased recharge time to 20 seconds. Functionality changed to: "Create three level 1..12 spirits. These spirits deal 5..30 damage with attacks. These spirits die after 60 seconds."

First of all this is a signet not a spell. It recharges in a mere 10 seconds and has zero cost energy wise. So with a decent investment in Spawning power you can now combine Boon of Creation for a very handsome source of energy every 10 seconds.

Before spirit spammers had to invest in multiple attributes to provide an ample amount of spirits. This update provides a good source of spirits with just 1 attribute line thus freeing up resources.

Summon spirits is no longer really required for a full Channeling spirit Rit since Signet of Spirits has a relatively quick recharge thus freeing up more space. So as it stands right now what I'm seeing is this....

Signet of Spirits + Boon of Creation opens up a spirit spammers bar considerably. It provides extremely good energy management enabling a primary Rit to perhaps look into their secondary for utility. You get a spirit wall that can be spammed every 10 seconds reducing the need for summon spirits. Your bar is much more compressed now so things like Splinter weapon, Ancestor's Rage, Spirit's Gift, Great Dwarf Weapon(?) etc... can fit on a bar. You can even toss in Armor of Unfeeling (which cannot be removed) with a "small" investment in Communing.

Just my thoughts at the moment. I'm still testing things as we speak.

[Just tested] Signet of Spirits + Spirit's Gift gives a nice area wide heal/condition removal every 10 seconds. In fact you can just use SoS itself when you need the heal. I guess this "almost" makes up for the nerf to Protective Was Kaolai?

I believe SoS in conjunction with some of the other updates to the Rit class have given me a reason to invest in Spawning power again. Not to the point where I would max out Spawning Power but enough to make it viable.

I am currently racing my Rit through Factions (she was abandoned for 6 months and then I started playing her again a few days ago and just got her to level 20) just for this skill.

I killed my ranger to re-make a rit, just from this update.

There's something funny about the spirits from this skill, they seem slower to acquire targets than other spirits.

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20 recharge still good, but yeah the spirits from this skill act dumb

Mantra of Inscriptions at 8 Inspiration with Boon of Creation at 11+ Spawning Power will return 15 energy every 13~ seconds once the 20 second recharge is actually applied. Basically it's like you'll have 3 extra pips of energy regeneration and ample fodder for the spirit destroying/creating skills in Spawning Power, not to mention the damage the three spirits themselves will deal.

It's a fun skill.

I had the elite from way back when I first created my Rit and beat factions. However, I used it for the first time tonight when they changed it's function. I love it. It is now fun to play a Rit. Where I found before that my damage dealt was minimal, I'm now experimenting again with my Rit and enjoying the new skills...especially the 3/4 second casting time on my offensive spirits.

Thank you Arena Net. You giveth with one hand and taketh with another...now fix my Xunlai points.

/unhijacked

Forget the energy/health return with BoC abuse, this skill lets you have 270ish party heals or up to 400ish if you add in bloodsong and vampirism, every 10 seconds by using Feast of Souls

its crazy

don't forget armor of unfeeling

This skill will surely give a Spirit Spammer's bar some much needed compression, giving way to a bit more usefulness from Spirit Spamming builds.

Feast of Souls will be an interesting combination with it, though I think it would only work because of the 20-second recharge of the signet. It'll would almost be like having a supercharged Spirit of Life party heal everyone every 20 seconds.

The fact the signet is in Channeling will only go to strengthen that line also. It'll go well with Spiritleech Aura and Painful Bond also, with a reasonable spread of attributes between Channeling, Spawning and Restoration.

After Signet of Spirits / Spiritleech Aura / Painful Bond / Feast of Souls you have four skill slots to play with. I'm thinking a couple of weapon spells and Ancestors' Rage would fill those slots very nicely.

Still, as exciting as it sounds, I'll reserve judgment until I've tried it.

Do I like the concept?
Hell yeah.
The problem?
It's an elite.
Which means no AP or RL sprit spam.

Will need to toy with it - but I am guessing it will be more of a hero skill.

Took my discordway with my rit into HM Riven Earth and HM Dalada Uplands, zero death, and I dont even need a single pve skill. Didn't even need to use Feast of Souls. Rit was steam rolling through the charrs like they are nothing.

With the superb healing and damage, I predict Rits would be the most popular class when it comes to partying. Too bad heroes dont spam SoS, so you would have to micro it with heroes.

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Im using this now:

Summon Spirits
Painful Bond
Signet of Spirits
Pain
Vampirism
Bloodsong
[Optional]
Boon of Creation

Only annoying thing is sometimes the spirits from Signet of Spirits just sit there.. usually just 1 of the 3.

The thing is if you rely entirely on Boon for energy your screwed when it gets strpped. At the end of the day, the 3 Spawning enchantments are not particularly fast to cast and have long recharges. Coupled with the Rit having no useful cover enchantment its not unlikely.

I may be wrong on this but I think P/Rt will pack more offense with Signet of Spirits than a Ritualist with their tirade of chants and shouts to buff those spirits and party members alike.

Spirit Siphon Spirit Siphon: functionality changed to: "The spirit nearest you loses all Energy. You gain 15...43...50% of that Energy."
Thats a good E-management if you position yourself well when using it. Ofc doesnt heal you like boon of creation but you can get lots of energy if you have that elite and 1-2 more spirits.

I like spirit siphon, because you can get the energy when really needed.

EDIT: Those spirits from SoS are a bit dim indeed....even more so then others

Something like this maybe? Or then I have just have the urge to fit SoS now to every build I'm running.. ^^

No offense but if you wanna run a spawning power summoner you might as well go fully 12 in death magic and drop channeling, 12-12 spread with Aura of the lich as elite and a 40/40 set.
The signet is a weak elite, the main problem is in its attribute

Multiple Rit parties viable?

Rit/Me

Signet of Spirits
Arcane Mimicry

Rit/?

Signet of Ghostly Might

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