Guild Wars 2

The Ritualist (Revenant version) is a powerful summoner of spirits from the mists. The playstyle is to summon spirits which either attack enemies or empower allies within a wide area, and using the scepter to snare and slow enemies and keep them in range of the spirits. To commune with spirits you use the new legendary stance of Master Togo (from GW1).

• Spirits are somewhat like a mixture of engineer turrets with Glint aspects. You put a spirit down and the skill slot is replaced with another skill that detonates the spirit. Each detonation skill is different (reflecting the type of spirit).
• Unlike turrets or aspects, spirits have a limited duration and can be killed by enemies.
• The F2 skill is an offensive spirit skill that summons 3 spirits at once and can be used outside of Togo stance. This means you can have 3 offensive spirits, 1 healing spirit, and 3 utility spirits.
• The elite skill is Clamor of Souls (also from GW1) which in its GW2 form will be a spreading AoE attack. Imagine a mass of spirit energy moving forward slowly in a giant “S” shape damaging anything caught inside it. Clamor of Souls damage and recharge are inversely proportional to each other and depend on how many spirits you have active.

The spec plays like something in between a turret engie and a phantasm Mesmer. Through traits you can either deal heavy aoe pressure, or you can be a healer.

Here are the GW1 spirits to give you some ideas. Obviously they would work a lot different in GW2 to be balanced.

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Binding_ritual

There’s a LOT of them so we can never really get them all in GW2, but we can get a lot of the main ones like Bloodsong, Shelter/Union, etc. Others could also be turned into traits, such as Agony and Destruction.

Also here are the weapon spells from GW1 which I think are also good material for trait ideas.

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Weapon_spell

Interestingly Splinter Weapon already exists in GW2 and is used by the Jade Bow enemies added in recent patches. I really loved that skill and it was a bread and butter DPS ability back in the day.

I really want to see Binding Chains used as the scepter 3 skill. Also I would love to see skills like Spirit’s Strength and Soul Twisting used as inspiration for traits.

To be fair, I think ritualist should be the 5th core legend. The revenant needs more skill variety, and going by numbers, it’s far far below the rest of the professions.

In general I just wish the revenant had been focused on original ritualist much more, instead of being a nostalgia dump :/.

This is the end all be all of legendary stances for me. Give me three spirits in 7-9 (bloodsong, anguish (maybe scaling damage based on foe’s conditions?), disenchantment (boon strip), etc.), 6 could be some healing spirit, elite would be Signet of Spirits.