Ritualist - Power DPS

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Focused on: Strike damage

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Expansions required:

Difficulty:

Normal

This build was last updated on June 07, 2026.

Overview

A power DPS build for Ritualist.

Skill Bar

Greatsword

Spear

Utility

• Ritualist spends much less long in Shroud than other Necromancer specialisations, which strongly inclines it towards the higher sustained damage of Spear over other weapons.

Skill Variants

Signet of Spite can be swapped out if extra utility is needed:

• Spectral Grasp - AoE pull for easier cleaving.
• Corrosive Poison Cloud - destroys projectiles.
• Summon Flesh Wurm - 1200 range teleport. Can also bodyblock certain projectiles (e.g. Old Tom's poison whirl).

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Specializations

• Chill of Death is poor damage against against targets with no boons, so you could run Spiteful Fortitude to boost your life force.

Equipment

Head
Assassin

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Accessory
Berserker

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Ring
Berserker

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Spear
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x12

Infusion
x6

Relic

Equipment Variants

• You want to aim for ~2005-2010 precision (with Sigil of Superior Sigil of Accuracy).
• Rune of Superior Rune of the Scholar would be a tiny DPS loss.
• Sigil of Superior Sigil of the Night or slaying sigils if you can benefit from the bonus (replacing Sigil of Superior Sigil of Force).
• If you don't have stat infusions, use Assassin stats legs.

Impact Sigil Variant

If you want to benefit from Sigil of Superior Sigil of Impact, you will need to slot in more assassins pieces:

Head
Assassin

Shoulders
Berserker

Chest
Berserker

Hands
Berserker

Legs
Berserker

Feet
Berserker

Backpiece
Assassin

Accessory
Assassin

Accessory
Assassin

Amulet
Berserker

Ring
Assassin

Ring
Assassin

Greatsword
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Spear
Berserker

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x18

Relic

• You want to aim for ~2155 precision.

Consumables

Food:

• or ascended versions

Utility:

Usage

Necromancer's Spear is one of the less complicated spears. Most of your weapons skills build up stacks of a powerful lifesteal buff called Soul Shards that caps at six stacks. Perforate consumes these stacks for a burst of damage and healing. Addle and Extirpate generate four and two stacks, respectively, so these are used for the first Perforate. Distress generates six stacks, and so it is used both to recharge, and power the second Perforate. You may gain different numbers of stacks depending on the number of enemies nearby, but this doesn't change your rotation.

Rotation

You want to cast both your Weapon Spells off cooldown while close to allies. You also want to cast Innervate Anguish off cooldown, but bear in mind that the attack happens around your spirit, so make sure it is next to your target. The other F-skills can be saved for utility.

Opener

Start on Greatsword

1. Splinter Weapon and Nightmare Weapon - make sure not to cast these two early in raids, as the stacks will be removed by the boon strip
2. Grasping Darkness to trigger Relic of the Claw
3. Ritualist's Shroud

Shroud Loop

The Shroud Loop is the same each time. Summon Spirits causes your spirits to perform an extra attack if they're not still using their summon attack, so you want to use at least two autos between Preservation and Summon Spirits. At the same time, you want the attack from Summon Spirits to be finished in time to cast Anguish a second time without delaying it, which means using no more than three autos here.

1. Anguish - Cast this first both to get the debuff on your target, and because we want to cast it twice before exiting Shroud
2. Wanderlust
3. Preservation
4. Essence Blast x2
5. Summon Spirits
6. Essence Blast until Anguish is ready
7. Anguish
8. Exit Ritualist's Shroud

Greatsword-to-Spear Loop

You want to cast Nightfall as soon as you can, but otherwise the skill order doesn't matter on Greatsword as long as you don't interrupt the auto chain.

1. Nightfall - use whenever it is available
2. Death Spiral
3. Gravedigger
4. Dusk Strike ⇒ Fading Twilight ⇒ Chilling Scythe - This resets Gravedigger so don't interrupt it
5. Gravedigger
6. Weapon Swap
7. Addle
8. Extirpate
9. Isolate
10. Perforate
11. Distress - make sure Perforate has finished casting or this won't reset its cooldown
12. Perforate
13. Ritualist's Shroud
14. Return to Shroud Loop

Spear-to-Greatsword Loop

You want to cast Nightfall as soon as you can, but otherwise the skill order doesn't matter on Greatsword as long as you don't interrupt the auto chain.

1. Isolate
2. Addle
3. Perforate
4. Distress - make sure Perforate has finished casting or this won't reset its cooldown
5. Perforate
6. Weapon Swap
7. Nightfall
8. Death Spiral
9. Gravedigger
10. Dusk Strike ⇒ Fading Twilight ⇒ Chilling Scythe - This resets Gravedigger so don't interrupt it
11. Gravedigger
12. Grasping Darkness
13. Ritualist's Shroud
14. Return to Shroud Loop

Below 50%

When your target is below 50% health, replace the auto chain on Greatsword with three Gravediggers (so you're using five each time).