Team build - Skyway

there might be a slight chance this would work in easy areas of normal mode. in hm loool.. barely any healing and nearly no protection in a team full of 60(68 at best) armor targers, you'd get mollywhopped before you could even get a single minion up... I guess that depends on where you use it.

You can clear some areas with just the spirit spammers alone, even on HM. I think the protection from the spirits should get you past the first one or two mobs (Armour of Unfeeling reduces the damage taken by the protective spirits by half when they protect) while you build up minions providing they're not too dense. Let's not forget the 5 summons as well as the huge amount of damage done by the Scythe and Barrage Ritualists with the buffs they have on them. Weakness also reduces damage by 66% and Meekness makes that already reduced damage come twice as slow.

By the way the Great Dwarf Scythe Ritualist has 99 armour. Ghost Forge insignias + Great Dwarf Armour FTW. Weapon Spells are unstrippable so as long as your Buffer maintains Great Dwarf Weapon on you properly you'll always have at least +15 armour.

And this is also the reason why I was thinking of running Protective Spirit on a bar to aid when battling the first mob, though if you pull right you shouldn't need it, though I have yet to test this.

In any event I want to try and run 8 Ritualists on a team for a laugh and to do something original. In no way at all am I saying you must use it, is the best build ever, or that it is even that good. If you have a constructive comment to pass to help improve the build, please share it. Negative comments that have no aid in improvement will just be ignored.

In any event I want to try and run 8 Ritualists on a team for a laugh and to do something original. Might I suggest people who signed up for the all ritualist trips if you lack people?
I still get people asking if trips will take place, but lately it's getting impossible to put together a team since people are expressing their desire to do do these events exactly at the time when pretty much they and me are the ONLY person on.
Still, since there is desire to do them - drop a line if I am on and I can try to help you bug people.

Meekness makes that already reduced damage come twice as slow. For some places, I often take Tryptophan Signet instead of Meekness (or shadow of fear) since they removed the touch-range requirement. Downsides - it affects all adjacent to target, rather than all in area... and it only gives 40% reduced attack speed, rather than 50%.

Upsides - it costs no energy (or sac), it casts in 1sec, it also reduces enemy movement speed 40%. But best of all, it is not a condition or a hex - so it can't be removed or shattered, and it will last its full duration even on bosses. Very useful in some places. If used well, it could replace Meekness - or in HM it might work well stacked on top of Meekness and Ice Spikes from the Imp.