Titan Quest Anniversary Edition – Melee Ritualist 5 pets

General info about the ritualist

 
Hey you adventurer ! Are you tired of killing hordes of monsters yourself and would like to stay back while having a horde of allies doing the dirty job for you ? Search no further, this melee ritualist guide is made for you ! 
 
But… What is a melee ritualist ? Well.. Unlike other melee class, the melee ritualist focuses on survivability and auras to give buffs to pets that are the ritualist main weapon, therefore, the melee ritualist is only there to assist his pets more than the pets assists the ritualists. This is a very powerful class especially late game when equipped with the right gears…Not the most hard hitting but pretty much unkillable. 
 
 

Attribute points and synergies

 
How to distribute your attribute points ? 
 
Pretty simple there strength and dexterity equally and nothing else. Do no waste points in intelligence, you don’t need it and do not spend any points in life or energy. You’ll get more than enough by levelling up your mastery in both dream and nature. 
 
Nature has 4 main synergies. 
 
– Wolves : up to 3 of them will tear any mob apart, in legendary with oak core buffs and maxed out, they are very hard to kill and will even be efficient boss killers 
– Oak core : Gives a ridiculous HP buff to your character as well as elemental resist 
– Nymph : a ranged fragile but nice DPS dealer, deals a lot of elemental damage late game and provides with an aura that gives absoption buffs to the team. 
– Plague : Slows the ennemies down, reduces their life and gives them huge debuffs to both physical and elemental resitance. This will indirectly increase the DPS of your pets. 
 
Late game, feel free to invest in the healing synergy to chain heal your pets when needed. Even though it wont happen often, the recharge time of this spell is very short and will make you save on potions A LOT. 
 
Dream has 5 main synergies 
 
– Nightmare : A pretty unkillable beast which will increase the damage of your other pets up to +60% 
– Transe of Empathy : Will reflect up to 85 % of physical damages to the ennemy. Your pets are affected, them being hit will result sending back 85% of the physical attack damage to the ennemy. This again, indirectly buffs the DPS of your pets. 
– Lucid dream : Gives you more speed and absorption buffs 
– Psionic hit : Your main source of primary damage assign to LMB 
– Distorted reality : Great crowd control effect as well as continuous damage dealer 
 
The way you play early game does not really matter. The most important is not to waste your attribute points in life, energy or intel. As far as weapon goes, swords are advised since your character not having any serious skills to improve his physical damage nor his attack speed, swords are the weapons of choice having a balanced attack speed and damage. 
 
 

Gears

 
The following gear puts a high emphasis on being able to carry heavy armor with high elemental/pierce/bleed/poison/stun/sleep/slow resistances and is not geared towards high damage output from your character. Hower this gear will allow your pet to deal a very high amount of damage. It will also allow you to be very resiliant. What about DPS ? Well with the following gear and the + 7 extra skill points it grants the DPS with the buffs granted by the wolves should be slightly above 4k with an attack speed of about 160% Which is not bad considering this gear is first and foremost made to get the best from your pets as well as allowing you to tank a lot. 
 
Helmet : Visor of the Shadow Lord : 
 
+40% Life Leech 
+50% Electrical Burn Damage 
80. Bleeding Resistance 
20. Elemental Resistance 
80. Life Leech Resistance 
80. Energy Leech Resistance 
50. Stun Resistance 
+210 Defensive Ability 
+2 to Trance of Wrath 
+1 to all Skills 
 
Ring 1 : Star of Elysium 
 
+15% Physical Damage 
+15% Pierce Damage 
+40% Bleeding Damage 
+40% Poison Damage 
40. Pierce Resistance 
40. Poison Resistance 
+700 Health 
+5.0 Health Regeneration per second 
+34 Strength 
 
Ring 2 : Blackpearl ring 
 
+50% Life Leech 
18. Elemental Resistance 
+175 Health 
+125 Energy 
 
Bonus to All Pets: 
8. Elemental Damage 
+12% Elemental Damages 
 
Amulet : Blackpearl pendant 
 
Part of The Cursed Jewels 
+50% Life Leech 
19. Elemental Resistance 
+700 Health 
+25% Health Regeneration 
+125 Energy 
 
Bonus to All Pets: 
 
20. of Attack damage converted to Health 
+20% Total Damage 
 
Torso : Alexander Cuirass 
 
50. Reduction in Bleeding Duration 
20. Cold Resistance 
42. Lightning Resistance 
+59 Defensive Ability 
13. Chance to Avoid Projectiles 
+59 Offensive Ability 
+32 Strength 
+2 to all Skills 
 
Arms : Phobos 
 
0. Chance of: 
3.0 second(s) of Fear 
50.0. Slower Movement for 3.0 Seconds 
3. ~ 42 Life Leech Retaliation over 3.0 Seconds 
100. Life Leech Resistance 
+40% Attack Speed 
+72 Offensive Ability 
+1 to all Skills 
 
Legs : Discs of Mani 
 
37. Pierce Resistance 
42. Bleeding Resistance 
58. Cold Resistance 
57. Poison Resistance 
+12% Energy 
+10% Total Speed 
+35% Movement Speed 
+2 to Strength of the Pack 
+2 to all skills in Nature Mastery 
+2 to all skills in Dream Mastery 
 
Bonus to All Pets: 
+200 Health 
+10% Total Speed 
 
Artifact : Thot’s Glory 
 
100. Reduced Freeze Duration 
100. Sleep Resistance 
100. Stun Resistance 
100. Reduced Entrapment Duration 
-20% Reduction to all Requirements 
+10% Increased Experience 
+1 to all Skills 
 
IMPORTANT NOTE : Only thanks to this artifact requirements reductions can you wear the most of the armor pieces mentionned above. 
 
Weapon : Wild hunt 
 
+70% Pierce Damage 
10.0. Chance of +100% Bleeding Damage 
10. ~ 200 Bleeding Damage 
25.0. Chance to Fumble attacks for 3.0 Seconds 
+50% Damage to Beasts 
+50% Damage to Plants 
+25% Attack Speed 
 
Bonus to All Pets: 
20. of Attack damage converted to Health 
+20% Total Damage 
 
If you do not have the Thots glory artifact yet, I suggest you to take this equipment until you can get it. 
 
Torso : Mantle of Secretos 
 
15.0. Chance of 45 Elemental Retaliation 
33. Elemental Resistance 
+10% Defensive Ability 
+10% Health 
+10% Energy 
+10% Offensive Ability 
+26 Strength 
+1 to all Skills 
 
Weapon : Sword of Covu 
 
+70% Life Leech 
2. Vitality Damage 
17. of Attack damage converted to Health 
+50% Electrical Burn Damage 
+30% Attack Speed 
6. Chance to Dodge Attacks 
+2 to Phantom Strike 
+1 to all skills in Dream Mastery 
 
Arms : Solon’s Brassers 
 
Part of Armor of Solon 
+50% Bleeding Damage 
+10% Shield Block Chance 
25. Elemental Resistance 
25. Pierce Resistance 
+30% Attack Speed 
+3 to Lacerate 
+1 to all skills in Hunting Mastery 
 
Or 
 
Stonebinder Cuffs with attack speed and resist affix/suffix which you may empower with a relic giving you the resist you lack. This will also give you + 3 to all skills which is very nice but it won’t give you the enormous life leach resist as well as the armor value given by Phobos 
 
Legs : Athena’s Battlegreaves 
 
+25% Physical Damage 
52. Cold Resistance 
52. Fire Resistance 
52. Poison Resistance 
+50 Defensive Ability 
+315 Health 
+30% Movement Speed 
+32 Strength 
 
This gear will allow you to be pretty much unkillable and will make your pets real furies. of course you can exchange both the ring and the amulet that give pet buffs for rings with stronger elemental + damage bonus if you want your character to hit harder. For my part i think it is more beneficial for this build to be oriented towards the pets effeiciency rather than the char brute force. 
 
I hope you enjoyed this guide and that it will help you in your quest of the ultimate melee ritualist build ! 
 

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