Soul Twisting with other spirits?

Spirit Lord Elites! :

Channeling; Take SoS! A spirit wall in one skill - it's free, and you've also specced to take spirit siphon, painful bond and splinter weapon.
Communing (Offense); Take SoGM! You'll use it way better than heroes (they summon offensive spirits when in combat, and use SoGM whenever a spirit they control attacks - therefore the first spirit will get SoGM, and none of the others).
Communing (Defense); Take ST! Ignore people who think Ritual Lord is also good - this lets you summon Shelter (arguably the most important one) for 10 energy 3 times every 15 seconds.
Restoration; Take Ritual Lord! The only way you can boost the effects of these spirits is by increasing the level at which they are summoned.

Still prefer ST Displacement over Shelter if I put a single spirit on my ST hero,
but that of course depends on what I'm up against. If mostly spell casters with heavy hitting spells, Shelter is good to soak up the spells getting passed the dom mesmers.

I would put both displacement and shelter on an ST bar if I ever ran ST bars... but I prefer ER prot on heroes more. On my player ST build though, I use both spirits.

Shelter is pretty much always much, much better than Displacement. Shelter prevents massive party-wide spikes, Displacement prevents some DPS. Physical attackers are inherently MUCH easier to neutralize (Weakness/Blind/Blocking, put any of them on and physicals pretty much do 0 damage), AoE casters are much harder to handle. Shelter scales better so that it takes less damage as it levels. Etc, etc. That said, bringing both isn't a bad idea, though neutralizing physicals another way so that your rit can do nothing but spam Shelter is sometimes better.

Ritual Lord is a nice idea for an elite, but has a number of problems:

1. SoS is better for offense.
2. ST is better for protection spirits.
3. SoGM is better for Communing offensive spirits
3. All thats left is spirits that don't quickly lose health on their own (ST is better) and don't attack (SoGM is better). This leaves you with nothing but Recuperation/Rejuvenation. Sadly, Recuperation costs 25e, and you have almost no energy management to rely on. Super-powerful Rejuvenation is nice, but in the end not being able to throw down Recuperation means you don't gain much actual healing at all. SoS + Spirit Siphon + healing spirits ends up being better.

Wish Ritual Lord could be used with all rit spells. R20 Splinter Weapon is infinitely badass...