Blood Ritual - A kinda sorta upgrade.

[Nebi]

Good day friends.

Shamans get this terrible tome that only gets worse as you get more of them because it is a percentage based reduction vs a fixed amount. The reasoning for this is because the damage that is done to the shaman will become more trivial as the shaman gets better ( rightfully so in my opinion. the game should get easier the better gear you get / the better the shaman becomes).

The reasoning for this post is to request that Blood Ritual work with shaman hots so that shamans can eventually get some form of decent group hot but at a big trade off to the shaman. For those of you who do not know this is what blood ritual does -

Grants an endurance-reliant stance (/s 4) in which the Shaman's DoT spells are amplified by 15 / 23 / 32 / 40% and direct healing spells are amplified by 10 / 15 / 25 / 33% in exchange for 20-to-30% of the Shaman's maximum HP per spell cast.

Doing so will still cause massive damage to the shaman and negate one of the hot ticks but at least my bro's can stay up longer.

Thank you for reading!

Best Regards,
~a sad panda.

 

[Pecannius]

Dang you don't have R2. The world will never know how many Blood Ritual 4 inspired R2 casts will kill a high tier shaman. Aka the important questions.

 

[Nebi]

Dang you don't have R2. The world will never know how many Blood Ritual 4 inspired R2 casts will kill a high tier shaman. Aka the important questions.

While i do like my bro's i refuse to outright kill myself for them.

 

[null1fy]

I had intentions of bringing this tome up once I had xp'd it more. I have the first rank, but I have yet to complete it. I feel as though a fair compromise would to have it be a flat 20% based off of current hitpoints versus maximum. This would have the same consequential effect at near 100% hp as the current tome status however, in the real-world situations where the tome will likely be used as either a DPS buffer or "oh shit" button, you will be far less punished for being at 30-60% hp.

 

[Pecannius]

I figure this post is kind of relevant enough to try to get blood ritual looked at / changed instead of making another new post about this tome.

Suggestion:
Name change: "Blood Ritual" to "Spiritual Fortitude"
Keep it as a stance.
Rank 1: When stanced, all shaman hots have the snare effect removed, but
option a) the base mana cast of the hot is taken by the shaman in damage.
or
option b) the mana cost is increased by X, let's say 50%.
Rank 2: When stanced, everything in rank 1 + the slow effect is removed.
Rank 3: When stanced, everything in ranks 1 & 2, but something beneficial? Maybe a very minor 5 mana/tick component to the hot?
Rank 4: When stanced, everything in ranks 1, 2 & 3 plus something beneficial (thinking something like adding the ability for a melee proc you summon a minor shaman pet that lasts a tick or 2, barely does any dmg but at least looks cool!)

Shamen still couldn't be main group healers (except for trivial content or trivial AEs) but they could at least be a little useful in group heal intensive fights that require mobility.