Restoration Ritualist

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Why would you post this? It just proves that the Ritualist cannot match a Monk's healing. No, it proves that a ritualist can easily be on par with a monk in terms of healing efficiency while still allowing for other utility skills.

Spirits in general act as aggro absorption.

SoS + Splinter Weapon + Ancestor's Rage for more team DPS, as well as fuel for Feast of Souls.

Xinrae's Weapon for a heal/quick prot/slight addition to DPS.

Ritualists are also ridiculously efficient at party healing without expending energy or requiring GoLE. The fact that their skills synchronize in so many ways is what makes them so good.

I will, more often than not, pick my monk for protection and my ritualist for healing.

Allow me to summarize. When healing, damage mitigation is key. It not only protects your allies from taking damage it also aids you in energy management. Ritualists for the most part lack damage mitigation spells and therefore in that sense is inferior to a monk. When damage mitigation fails, and your allies take damage a healer has to spike heal. While a restoration Ritualist is quite capable of spike healing, ultimately a monk can vastly out spike heal a Ritualist. This simply means that a monk has more potentiality for spike healing, but both are effective in the right hands. Well said.

And with this whole Rit v. Monk healing and crap. Let's just end the discussion with the fact that ER Infuser ele is superior

End of discussion.

Well, I have been still struggling trying to find a decent Resto build. Because there isn't one. The closest you'll get is a Necro-primary restoration build.

Okay, explain why a Ritualist cannot match a Monk in healing? I recently created a monk and while playing her I realized I'd much rather just heal with my Ritualist. agreed. ive been in ta with a rit and outhealed enemy monks. its all about how u play it i guess. for me some of the best resto skills imo are:

weapon of remedy
weapon of shadow
weapon of warding
blind was mingson/soothing memories
pure was ming li

i have more, but its been awhile and cant remember. xinrae weapon or however u spell it is overatted. i used it maybe a few times in ra, but never anywhere important.

making a hybrid rit is good, but your really not gonna do well unless ur bar is truly dedicated to healing. the only channeling skills i would take for a resto build would be essence strike and warmongers weapon. anything else u may as well go straight dmg.

i use to play resto rit as my main and i blew monks away in healing. for group healing as a whole rit is better imo.

At 16 Resto:

Boon of creation
Preservation- every 4 seconds heals someone for 122
Recuperation- +3 health regen for 47 secs whole group (spammable @16) 45 sec recharge
Rejuvenation- +10 health every sec for whole party
Life- 140 health every 20 seconds
Spirit light - 188 health @ 4 secs recharge
mend body & soul - heals 122 spam @ 3 secs also remove condition
Choice of res or w/e


I ran this old school fow before speedclears when u needed 2 monks for 4 hour run. i had no proble with energy or keeping group alive with NO monks. They got bored of doing nothing and left. Preservation is an awful skill. Often heals people who need it least. Boon of Creation, Rejuvenation are pretty lackluster. I like recup but that too isn't that great.

This wouldn't heal as well as a HB monk but its still a good healer. But for absolute BEST healer between Monk and Rit can still be debated, but this won't be the foremost favored bar for the rit.

Besides ER Protter ftw.

So let's get some ideas out!

I have been trying to come up with a decent Resto build, and I usually run into energy problems. It seems Spawning Power is not of much use, and I might have to turn to Channeling for Spirit Siphon, or perhaps another profession.

I think if we focus on what the Ritualist CAN do, rather then comparing it to others, we might come up with some good stuff.

Recuperation, Life and Protective was Kaolai are examples of party wide healing that can be used effectively. What else can anyone else think of? Blind was Mingson is good AoE blind which is good in physical areas and works well with discord.

Weapon of Warding is powerful and unstrippable. Weapon of Shadow is also good if WoW does not suffice.

If you put any spawning, you should also run GDW as even relatively low Spawning makes a difference in the length of GDW due to its 20 sec duration.

Death Pact Signet is the fastest reusable rez. It's drawback is mitigated assuming that your team don't kick the bucket too quickly. Otherwise FoF is still good.

For heals, MBaS and SL are the best in the rit arsenal and MBaS also removes condition and its req is easy to fill as is SL. Very good skills for the cost and recharge. Staple on every restoration rit bar. Soothing memories are also good with item spells.

Recovery is really good in condition heavy areas if the condition removal matters.

Recuperation is ok but is pretty good with minions, which seems to be in every heroway these days. Some people like Rejuvenation, but I don't. Personal preference.

The damaging and healing weapon spells: WoR, Xinrae's, Vengeful are good support heal and WoR is good at removing conditions. Xinrae's is one of the rit's best prot skill and prot is sorely needed in the rit line.

Kaolai is a good item spell.

Everything else is pretty mediocre for the restoration line or unplayable.


So let's try to make an example bar.

For an elite, let's go for WoR. Condition removal, decent heal/support and damage. 1 slot so far.

MBaS and SL for good heals. 3 slots so far.

Need a spirit for MBaS and SL. Life is good since we already have WoR, Recovery isn't as good. Recup is too expensive and I don't like Rejuv. 4 slots.

Add in a second weapon spell. WoW is very good. Can't add more weapon spells or it will conflict with WoW and WoR. 5 slots.

Death Pact signet is good but iffy on a healer. You must be really brave to use this. Stick with FoF. 6 slots.

PwK is a good party wide heal. I would run it. You could also consider Energetic was Lee Sa, a strong emanagement skill. I like to use PwK. 7 slots.

Since I didn't use Lee Sa, I need good emanagement. For this I can go secondary for stuff like /Me for Power Drain or /E for GoLE. But I think Siphon Spirit in Channeling works better. Last and final slot.

So that's a decent bar for Rits. Good enough for most areas in PvE in a decent team. No matter how you make your restoration bar, building the bar needs to cover most of the areas I talked about.

Preservation is an awful skill. Often heals people who need it least. Boon of Creation, Rejuvenation are pretty lackluster. I like recup but that too isn't that great.

This wouldn't heal as well as a HB monk but its still a good healer. But for absolute BEST healer between Monk and Rit can still be debated, but this won't be the foremost favored bar for the rit.

Besides ER Protter ftw. for group heal preservation isnt awful.. drop a spirit that heals randon someone every 4 secs for 122 and you dont push buttons... what you say is an opinion not factual..nor is mine..just wanted to share.

for group heal preservation isnt awful.. drop a spirit that heals randon someone every 4 secs for 122 and you dont push buttons... what you say is an opinion not factual..nor is mine..just wanted to share. The problem with Preservation is the fact that the heals ARE random, and they will rarely kick in when you need them the most. And because they are random, you will still be spamming heals and wasting energy when it heals the target you were healing.