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The Ritualist Breakdown

• Channeling Magic
  • Damage
    • Lightning Damage (direct) (Caretaker's Charge)
    • Hexes (untyped damage) (Clamor of Souls, Lamentation)
    • Offensive Life-stealing (Nightmare Weapon, Bloodsong)
    • Burning (Spirit Burn)
    • Damaging spirits (indirect) (Agony, Destruction)
  • Support
    • Damage buff (indirect) (Splinter Weapon)
    • Energy gain (Offering of Spirit, Renewing Surge)
    • Spirit buffing (Spiritleech Aura)
    • Rez (Death Pact Signet)
  • Control
    • Offensive Blindness & Cracked Armor (Gaze from Beyond, Spirit Rift)
• Communing
  • Damage
    • Attacking Spirits (direct) (Pain, Signet of Spirits)
  • Support
    • Blocking (Displacement)
    • Damage buff (indirect) (Brutal Weapon)
    • Damage Reduction (Shelter, Union)
    • Maximum Health (Vital Weapon)
    • Skill buff (direct) (Weapon of Quickening)
    • Spirit buffing (Signet of Ghostly Might, Armor of Unfeeling)
    • Rez (Restoration)
  • Control
    • Anti-Adrenaline (Soothing)
    • Block Bypassing (Guided Weapon)
    • Debuffs (Disenchantment)
    • Hexes (anti-martial) (Dulled Weapon)
    • Interrupts (Dissonance)
    • Knockdown support (Earthbind, Wanderlust)
    • Indirect Blindness & Cracked Armor (Shadowsong, Sundering Weapon)
• Restoration Magic
  • Damage
    • Defensive life-stealing (Weapon of Remedy, Vengeful Was Khanhei)
  • Support
    • Spike Healing (Spirit Transfer, Spirit Light)
    • Spot Healing (Spirit Light Weapon, Wielder's Boon)
    • Self Healing (Generous Was Tsungrai, Soothing Memories)
    • Party Healing (Life, Rejuvenation)
    • Remove Conditions (Mend Body and Soul, Pure Was Li Ming)
    • Regeneration (Recuperation, Resilient Weapon)
    • Rez (Flesh of My Flesh, Lively Was Naomei)
  • Control
    • Defensive Blindness & Cracked Armor (Blind Was Mingson, Weapon of Shadow)
• Spawning Power
  • Powerful skills that shouldn't be accessible to secondary Ritualists. (Spirit's Strength, Attuned Was Songkai, Doom etc.)
• Exceptions
  • There are always exceptions to guidelines and certain skills will do two things, each characterized above by different attributes. Like Shadowsong or Weapon of Warding, they're placed in whichever attribute suits it better.

tl;dr

I have to confess that I haven't fully perused most of your ideas because (a) there are tons of them, (b) they are too dense with details, and (c) too empty of explanation. I think your feedback articles might benefit from three types of edits:

• Include a problem statement: what issue have you identified that is so important that ANet should drop something else to address it?
• Include a solution overview: how does your feedback address the problem identified above?
• Remove almost all details unless they illustrate either/both of above.

For example, PvE flash enchantments: Since you haven't explained what's wrong with any of the listed skills, it's unclear why turning them into an FE makes sense. As you have noted in various places on the wiki, Asuran Scan is already a skill with some useful functionality. If it's OP'd, how does turning it into an enchantment balance its value?

For example, the case of the missing masters is a good idea, but 90% of my browser is filled with maps and (sometimes empty) skillbars: there is so much detail that it's easy to miss its benefit and its simplicity: the Isle is missing at least three Masters, one each for teardowns, assassins, and command — please add them. Everything else can be left up to ANet to figure out (since regardless of how many details we provide, ANet still has to balance, playtest, and otherwise micromanage the idea's implementation).

Short story: less is more — tell us the issue, offer your idea, and then help us understand how it might work. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 23:42, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Asuran Scan is a Flash -Hex- Spell (if I've proposed otherwise, then its outdated). Where did I say AS is enchantment? ^_^ How do I create a "Suggestions to Make/Improve" section? --Falconeye 00:27, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Flash Hex or Flash enchant is not the issue — the point is: what's wrong with the game that makes updating the skill a good idea? – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 01:09, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

My suggestion

I know, I have no idea about gameplay, balancing, but beeing called the worst is really funny (or depressing..? No, i think funny fits better^^). Wanna keep this suggestion as a negative sample, elsewise i would delete it. --Naruuu 22:50, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

No disrespect or insult was intended, it was merely for reference; and honestly, I had nearly forgotten that link. ^_^ --Falconeye 05:19, 12 January 2013 (UTC)