Ritual Lord Viable?

Generally, if you are getting spanked in hm, the first place to look is at your hero build, not your personal build. I would take a look at your heroes, as they will probably be the difference between you dominating HM and HM dominating you.

As for a rit lord build, yours seems a little directionless. You spam a bunch of spirits with passive effects, but they aren't terribly useful on their own unless you combine other skills with them. Basically, I think you need to have more synergy in your selection of skills.

As I see it, there are two uses for ritlord. One is in a pure restoration build, where you use ritlord to pump out party healing from life/rejuv, with the rest of the bar being energy-management and standard healing skills (spirit light, MB&S, ghostmirror light, etc.). This type of build is obviously intended to be the primary healer in a 2-healer backline sort of party.

My preferred use of ritlord is in a offensive setting, however. The Destruction/Rupture soul combination is deadly against PvE mobs. Add in Ritlord to reduce Destruction's recharge to manageable levels, summon spirit to move your destruction around, some energy management (spirit siphon), and some other filler skills like arage, splinter, and agony for use during destruction's downtime. Thanks for the first input.

Yes my direction is purposely 2 phase in Channeling and resto. Neither one has enough spirits to fill the needs of how quick I can cast, So I chose to do both (since RL adds to both).

Spamming lots of quick recharging spirits is the general idea. Get quick degen and recharging destruction, along with a fresh rejuvination and life. Recuperation was just tossed in (its not designed to be spammable).

Spirit's gift is there to take advantage of the quick casting turnaround on the rituals. I had Boon of creation in there, but Spirit siphon is so much better, especially since you get new spirits to leech on very quickly.

The problem with using splinter and arage and rupture soul, is if you mess up your timing, you will cause RL to take forever to recharge...and then you are dead in the water.

Easier to pre-cast an enchantment or two and then only have to worry about getting spirit siphon in the right order.

As I said, i ran this in the 3H days...maybe it will work better now with 7Heros. Then again, maybe I could just sit and cast nothing and that would work...

Thanks for the first input.

Yes my direction is purposely 2 phase in Channeling and resto. Neither one has enough spirits to fill the needs of how quick I can cast, So I chose to do both (since RL adds to both).

Spamming lots of quick recharging spirits is the general idea. Get quick degen and recharging destruction, along with a fresh rejuvination and life. Recuperation was just tossed in (its not designed to be spammable).

Spirit's gift is there to take advantage of the quick casting turnaround on the rituals. I had Boon of creation in there, but Spirit siphon is so much better, especially since you get new spirits to leech on very quickly.

The problem with using splinter and arage and rupture soul, is if you mess up your timing, you will cause RL to take forever to recharge...and then you are dead in the water.

Easier to pre-cast an enchantment or two and then only have to worry about getting spirit siphon in the right order.

As I said, i ran this in the 3H days...maybe it will work better now with 7Heros. Then again, maybe I could just sit and cast nothing and that would work... hehe, what you say about 7 heroes is true. You can go into any vq with an empty skillbar and complete it at a reasonable pace, assuming you have the right 7H team. I see that as a good thing, however, as it allows the player character to run whatever build they find most fun.

As for messing up RL's timing, that is true. I guess all I can say is that you have to practice the timing so that you don't accidentally use it when you don't intend to.