Overview
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Power (Quick) Ritualist is currently the strongest power build for Necromancer in fractals. It provides Quickness, great Might uptime and some Protection as well as Resolution. With , ritualist has access to on-demand Aegis, Stability, Resistance. Offensively, it helps the team by providing Vulnerability, which can be especially lacking in condition comps or fast phasing fights. On top of that, it also provides low amounts of Fear, which can help out Mesmer players with . While it does have great crowd control with and , it lacks the same Stealth, Superspeed and reflect capabilities as Power (Quick) Scrapper.
Equipment
For fractals, due to Exposed and Stun, it is worth adjusting your build to make use of . On certain bosses, other sigils like (Dark AI), (Siax and Ensolyss), (Eparch), or and (Kinfall) can be used as further damage increase instead of - or sometimes on top of - . Check the cheat sheet for the best consumables and sigils in each fractal or ask on discord if you are unsure.
This version uses 12 power and 6 precise infusions as well as accuracy sigil.
Check the gear optimizer for more gear variants!
Check the gear optimizer for more gear variants!
Build
Traits
Spite
Soul Reaping
Ritualist
| Take "Empowering Spirits" if you want to give quickness. | |
| Take "Spirit's Strength" if you are pure dps. |
Defiance Bar Damage
| Skill | Damage |
|---|---|
| and | Multiples of 200 depending on hitbox size. |
| Up to 5 time 150. | |
| 150 | |
| 150 | |
| Fear | 100 damage per second |
| Slow | 50 damage per second |
| Chilled | 33 damage per second |
| Blinded | 20 damage per second |
| Weakness | 20 damage per second |
| Crippled | 15 damage per second |
Utility and Food Variations
is the standard utility.
can be used on fights with adds or in T4.
Relic Variations
can be used instead of .
Situational Skills
| Provides a block and additional defense. | |
| Amazing 1200 range pull and cc. It provides an 150 defiance bar damage per hit and hits up to five times if you cast it inside an enemy with other enemies around. | |
| Heal skill option that provides some damage and a spirit weapon target. Can be consumed by using to gain health and life force. | |
| A strong AoE boon corrupt which can be used on days with Mistlock Instability: No Pain, No Gain. | |
| Standard dps option. | |
| Additional cleanse. | |
| A useful skill for mitigating projectiles. | |
| A secondary teleport skill that allows one to solo the turret room in the Thaumanova Fractal. Also great for consuming conditions on consoles in the Aetherblade Fractal. | |
| A 1200 range teleport skill that can double as a projectile blocker for fights like Old Tom in the Uncategorized Fractal. | |
| Can be used as a greedy dps option when CC is not needed or to precast . |
Class Concept
Ritualists use skills to generate life force which allows them to enter and summon spirits, namely , and . One can then use for additional spirit attacks. The auto attack in shroud, , scales with the number of spirits present. , and are instant cast skills that can be used around the summoned spirits.
Quickness is provided by summoning spirits due to .
Spirit Attacks
: Anguish fires a barrage of projectiles that deal increased damage against crowd-controlled enemies and for each condition on those enemies.
: Wanderlust knocks down enemies and creates a lingering area that deals damage and inflicts conditions.
: Preservation will unleash a burst of energy, healing and removing conditions from nearby allies.
Due to , spirits remain alive outside of shroud, continuing their attacks.
On spear, (Spear5), (Spear3), (Spear 4.2) create soul shards which can be consumed by (Spear 2) for extra damage. resets . and (GS 2 have improved effects against low-hp targets.
Rotation / Skill usage
Golem rotations out of the raid builds are generally suboptimal in fractals due to Stun, Exposed and phases being much shorter compared to raids. The raid rotations are optimized for sustained DPS while in fractals a player needs the ability to adapt a rotation to the amount of time a group needs to finish a phase.
The newer fractals with long phases like Kinfall, Sunqua Peak and Silent Surf play much more similar to raids though such that essentially raid benchmark rotations can be used there with little tweaking.
Precasting
At the Mistlock Singularity for better boons:
- Summon to create life force.
- Enter
- and
- Let the spirits cast their attack.
- and
- Take Mistlock Singularity.
- and again.
With trait swap items, you can use to precast.
Potentially, precast by casting before the start of the fight. Then swap in time to your fight template that uses .
Swapping equipment templates or skill templates with the same traits will not apply a status reset. Due to this, using a precast skill template and a precast equipment template with 100% Boon Duration is advised.
At spawnable bosses, you can also precast staff marks:
- , , ,
Optionally, also use the elite to precast . can be used with the deluxe upgrade. can be used as charr with portals.
Light AI Waterskip Example
Example Opener Ideas
Invisible bosses usually still take damage although the first second might not be logged properly in the arcdps addon. Use aoe skills which do not require a target during that time.
before the fight and it into the breakbar.
(Greatsword 4) before the boss spawns.
- (GS 3) for instant 12 stacks of Vulnerability.
Activate the boss during the cast. - (GS 5) for
Cancel its aftercast with weapon swap or shroud. - Skills
- (GS 2) and Weapon Swap
- Spear Skills
or
- (Spear5) to strip Mistlock Instability: No Pain, No Gain
Activate the boss during the cast. - (Spear3) to help with the breakbar and trigger . Careful not to cancel by spamming.
- Skills
- (Spear 2)
- and (Spear 4.1 and 4.2)
- again (Spear 2)
- (Spear3) if available
- Weapon Swap
- (GS 2), (GS4), (GS 3)
- (GS 5) and Skills
What is actually optimal depends on the phase time and boss. Try to get as many high damage skills as possible into a phase while quickly ramping vuln, stripping boons and stunning the boss.
, and can be used anytime.
Example Video (MAMA Solo)