Rit and Warr?

The fact is while you can have spirits and melee weapons as a rit, your overall effectiveness decreases. As with any class you need to be dedicated in what you want to do. If you have nightfall a Rit elite skill called Spirit's Strength (of Strength of Spirit can't remember) gives you extra damage to your attacks. If you want a rit with a sword, axe, or hammer (I strongly discourage hammer for a rit) then that is the path you need to take.

Or if you prefer spirits go with one of the many Spirit spamming builds avaiable now. If you are going for the melee option you will still have some spirits at your disposal since you should be using either communing or (preferably) channeling attributes for the weapon spells that will also boost your attack strengths.

An important thing to remember is don't get discouraged and play what you are comfortable with. Also make sure that if you are playing with other humans they need to be relaxed and know what it is you are doing. There are lots of people out there that only want cookie cutter builds, so unless you have people that play the game for fun (as it is intended) you may find it hard to find a group to play with.

Another note is that the Warrior build mentioned by Grenth above me is more suited for Farming than actually general gameplay. A warriors very shallow energy pool and extreme lack of energy managment make having a war/rit much less effective than a rit/war.

Rt/R or Rt/P with a spear is much better than Rt/W. (spirit's Strength for spear, splinter weapon with 14-15 channeling magic and zealous bow for barrage)

You can use your spirits to "tank" if you use a ranged weapon. In Guild Wars there's no such thing as a tank though.

So anyways, I decided that since I only have Prophs and Factions. And from what I just read, some of the good melee elite skills only come from Nightfall. So I think I might go with a Rt/N spirit bombing and explosive growth. because I always tend to have too little health and energy.

So if anyone can give a nice build for it, it would be nice. I tried PvX wiki but I swear... I could spend like weeks trying out the builds. I'd like a build or like a structure for someone unfunded, and can only get skills in factions until level 15.

Also can someone tell me how to get elite skills besides.. using the tomes from others?

Thanks

You can get an elite skill by buying a Signet of Capture from a skill trader (not all skill traders will have it) and then you will equip it on your bar. You must kill a boss of your primary or secondary profession to capture that bosses elite skill. You will just click signet of capture after the boss is killed and that will give you the elite skill on your character and your account for PvP.

The Elite tomes only give you the elite if one of your characters has already unlocked it.

What that means is you have a ritualist he captures signet of spirits, later on another character of yours wants the same skill but is nowhere near that boss in the game, an elite tome will give him that skill.

So a tome is unlikely to help you unless you already got that skill last time you played.