Curse

Ariathon · Aug 10, 2006, 03:29 PM // 15:29

I see lots of ritualist who seem to lack the use of channeling skills ..... theres to many communing and spawning

Jeff Highwind · Aug 10, 2006, 03:52 PM // 15:52

Well the Rt's main use is support and healing, while spirits lay down support fire. All the channeling magic I've seen thus far is either not effective in Damage:Recharge ratio or requires a contrived gimmick to work.

Besides, the 2 better offensive spells are already in Spawning: Doom (For spirit spammers w/o Rit Lord) and Rupture Soul. I've done 170 to an Afflicted mage just using Doom, so that's humorus.

Dodo The Extinct · Aug 10, 2006, 04:15 PM // 16:15

You can never have enough skills :P

But yea, Chanelling needs a buff or something because it has pretty bad damage atm.

runeseeker1 · Aug 10, 2006, 04:45 PM // 16:45

I think they made channeling bad for a reason. The elementalist is clearly meant to deal more lightning damage than a ritualist can. If they buffed channeling, then elementalists could become useless in the domain of air magic because everyone wanting to deal lightning damage would flock to the ritualist like the mooing mammals they are. You could, however, complement the ritualist skill line with the elementalist's, using the knockdown of a rit with bed of coals, for instance.

Pick Me · Aug 10, 2006, 06:36 PM // 18:36

Ritualists are for support mainly. Since the cries of "GLF Monk(s) for mission, self invite" happen all over the entire planet of GW in PvE, Ritualists have been called upon to help these poor folks in missions.

PUGs tend to want people to be healers and protectors, so Monks and Ritualists are usually built like that. You rarely see smiters or channelers in a group without healers, or even with healers.

Cherno · Aug 10, 2006, 07:46 PM // 19:46

Two threads below this one discussing channeling for rits:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10016568