This Ritualist has many friends
3-4x Blight Fiend
1x Briarthorn
8x Skeletons
1x Eldritch Talon
2x Blighted Riftscourge
1x Eldritch Hound (occasionally)
a few Eldritch Webweavers (rarely)
And they are all doing acid (damage)!
Also, they are dead.
Pros
- Hilarious DPS
- Pets can tank a fair amount and taunt
- only 2 green MIs, one of them entirely optional, both pretty easy to farm
Cons
- Piano playstyle
- You have to resummon individual pets occasionally and there are so, so many of them
- only 25k HP and 13k from Fiendflesh proc, that is most of your defense
The pet bonuses on the flexible slots (devotion, augments, affixes) are selected for:
- resistances (mostly all capped, some overcapped)
- speed (as much as possible)
- offensive ability
- damage and crit damage
in that order.
Showcase
Ravager of Flesh (~1min 12sec)
SR 30-31 with some fast rooms (~5min)
Callagadra is possible, but last time I checked, it was a 6-7 minute kite fest. The pets aren’t tanky enough against her, so lots of resummoning.
Didn’t push much into SR. Average SR runs are ~6-7 minutes, but if the rooms are bad for the pets’ pathing, it can be longer.
Alternative items would be:
Mythical Black Grimoire of Og’Napesh (for one extra pet and possibly extra (but weaker) skeletons)
Mythical Reaper of the Accursed (just solid overall)
Nightshard (If you can somehow fit another button for Siphon Souls, maybe)
Mythical Wildshorn Legguards (Solid, built-in +3 Embolden)
Mythical Runebrand Legwraps (Also solid, +3 Mog Pact for more flat damage instead of phys res from Embolden)
If you can’t find Mythical Blightshard:
Bysmiel’s Iris (defensive, mostly for heals every 25sec)
Mythical Sovereign Ruby of Domination (Just really solid)
Mythical Deathwalker’s Grace (for the slow res to pets, but it’s a lot of +skills to make up for.)
Leveling
I leveled using Primal Strike and then swapped to pets around level 40.
Going into skeletons first and then adding Briarthorn and Shaman passives, before going into Blightfiends.
Gear was mostly picked up around Homestead/Bloodgrove:
Spectral Crown
Zaria’s Pendant
or Death-Watcher Pendant
Bloodsworn Sigil
Rhowari Shoulderguard
Rhowari Cuirass
Bysmiel-Sect Legguards
Bloodsworn Codex
Bargoll’s Core
Wendigo Gaze
If you watch the pets resistances and your own, this should get you through the game eazy-breezy.
You can also follow this pet ritualist beginner guide by Uncle_Mac, which looks good!
Always happy to hear feedback.
I didn’t pour infinite hours into this one, so I bet there is room for improvement.
