Ritualist - Quickness Support Power DPS

A power 急速 DPS build for Ritualist. It can also provide 25 stacks of 威能, permanent 激怒, ~25-30% 保护, 活力 and 决心. Additionally, it can provide 圣盾 and 稳固 on a 20-second cooldown, while its spirit of 庇护灵魂 provides a small amount of consistent healing and condition cleanse.

The downside to Ritualist is the small AoE of its boon provision, plus the fact that your Innervate skills are triggered at your spirits' locations and they can only be repositioned while in Shroud making it weaker on encounters with a lot of movement.

• Ritualist spends much less long in Shroud than other Necromancer specialisations, which strongly inclines it towards the higher sustained damage of Spear over other weapons.

Skill Variants

怨恨纹章 can be swapped out if extra utility is needed:

• Any Elixir can be used for better personal boon uptimes or condi cleanse.
• 鬼灵缚爪 - AoE pull for easier cleaving.
• 腐蚀毒云 - destroys projectiles.
• 召唤血肉地虫 - 1200 range teleport. Can also bodyblock certain projectiles (e.g. Old Tom's poison whirl).

Food:

• 碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤 or ascended versions

Utility:

• 超级磨刀石

• 死亡冰寒 is poor damage against targets with no boons, so you could run 恶意坚韧 to boost your life force.

Equipment Variants

• You don't strictly need extra boon duration to maintain 100% 急速 uptime, but it would be rather tight and the small AoE on 强化灵魂 makes it easy to miss your allies.
  • You can bring more boon duration by swapping in Diviner stats pieces. Bear in mind you will need to swap other pieces to Assassin stats to maintain your critrate.
  • A simpler method would be to swap your runes to 超级烟花符文. This provides 37% boon duration and is marginally more efficient than swapping in Diviner stats - DPS wise it is equivalent to 35% boon duration from Diviner stats.
• You want to aim for ~2005-2010 precision (with 超级精确法印).
• 超级学者符文 would be a tiny DPS loss.
• 超级夜幕法印 or slaying sigils if you can benefit from the bonus (replacing 超级武勇法印).
• If you don't have stat infusions, use Assassin stats legs.

Impact Sigil Variant

If you want to benefit from 超级冲击法印, you will need to slot in more assassins pieces:

萨菲尔假面

AssassinHead

BerserkerShoulders

BerserkerChest

BerserkerHands

AssassinLegs

BerserkerFeet

DivinerBackpiece

AssassinAccessory

AssassinAccessory

BerserkerAmulet

AssassinRing

AssassinRing

BerserkerGreatsword

Sigil

Sigil

BerserkerSpear

• You want to aim for ~2155 precision.
• The extra precision from makes it very efficient when combined with , so if you want more boon duration you can bring this and run full Berserker stats gear with Assassin stats head and shoulders (strictly speaking it is optimal to run with 98-99% crit chance, but crit-capping is absolutely fine too).

Necromancer's Spear is one of the less complicated spears. Most of your weapons skills build up stacks of a powerful lifesteal buff called Soul Shards that caps at six stacks. 千疮百孔 consumes these stacks for a burst of damage and healing. 腐坏纷争 and 斩草除根 generate four and two stacks, respectively, so these are used for the first 千疮百孔. 悲痛欲绝 generates six stacks, and so it is used both to recharge, and power the second 千疮百孔. You may gain different numbers of stacks depending on the number of enemies nearby, but this doesn't change your rotation.

Boons

Your 急速 comes from 强化灵魂 every time you summon a Spirit. Depending on the spirit used, you also provide an additional boon. 支配苦痛 provides additional 威能 and 激怒 in an AoE around your spirits, while 支配庇护 provides 圣盾 and 稳固, which is useful for mitigating mechanics. Finally, 庇护灵魂 provides a small amount of 保护 and 活力.

Rotation

You want to cast both your Weapon Spells off cooldown while close to allies. You also want to cast 支配苦痛 off cooldown, but bear in mind that the attack happens around your spirit, so make sure it is next to your target. The other F-skills can be saved for utility.

Opener

Start on Greatsword

1. 分裂之器 and 噩梦之器 - make sure not to cast these two early in raids, as the stacks will be removed by the boon strip
2. 黑暗抓攫 to trigger 克达之爪古物
3. 祭祀帷幕

Shroud Loop

The Shroud Loop is the same each time. 灵魂召集 causes your spirits to perform an extra attack if they're not still using their summon attack, so you want to use at least two autos between 庇护灵魂 and 灵魂召集. At the same time, you want the attack from 灵魂召集 to be finished in time to cast 苦痛灵魂 a second time without delaying it, which means using no more than three autos here.

1. 苦痛灵魂 - Cast this first both to get the debuff on your target, and because we want to cast it twice before exiting Shroud
2. 流浪灵魂
3. 庇护灵魂
4. x2
6. until Anguish is ready

Greatsword-to-Spear Loop

You want to cast as soon as you can, but otherwise the skill order doesn't matter on Greatsword as long as you don't interrupt the auto chain.

1. - use whenever it is available
4. ⇒ ⇒ - This resets Gravedigger so don't interrupt it
6. Weapon Swap
11. - make sure Perforate has finished casting or this won't reset its cooldown
14. Return to Shroud Loop

Spear-to-Greatsword Loop

You want to cast as soon as you can, but otherwise the skill order doesn't matter on Greatsword as long as you don't interrupt the auto chain.

4. - make sure Perforate has finished casting or this won't reset its cooldown
6. Weapon Swap
10. ⇒ ⇒ - This resets Gravedigger so don't interrupt it
14. Return to Shroud Loop

Below 50%

When your target is below 50% health, replace the auto chain on Greatsword with three s (so you're using five each time).