Ritualist buff

Ritualist is an incredibly fun class, but let's be real here. Nobody uses it for anything but Mask of the Lunatic, one of the first perks. Let's make some changes.
1st of all: Why is the best perk almost the first one? It's not like you will almost ever use Fanatic or Coward, and Mask of the Awakened isnt worth spending so much AP to get. So it could possibly get swapped with the place of Fanatic/Coward. Now, onto Mask of the Awakened.
After saving 200 mana from your Masks' mana reductions, casting Uproot will equip the Mask of the Awakened for 15s, giving you the power of all masks at once, while also activating a special stat buff.
Melee damage: +20%
Aura damage: +40%
Damage resistance: +30%
Walk speed: +50%
Haul range: +20%
Haul height: +1 block
Overall spell costs: -30%
This is my first time doing this, so please tell me what could i change!

 

Mask of Awakened just needs the negative effects removed and then it would be worthwhile.

Also hot take: Lunatic should not be the first mask available because Acolyte + Lunatic is too broken. I'd rather have Lunatic be the final mask, making it worthwhile to actually pick Ritualist (plus Summoner and Acolyte are already strong as is, they don't need Mask of Lunatic to perform well)

 

True, but early game players would be struggling so this could also do imo

 

I'm not entirely sure if they would struggle since Rebound is accessible fairly early, but I haven't played early game Shaman since 2.0 came out so I cannot say much. I still stand by my opinion that Acolyte shouldn't be restricted from Mask of Lunatic, but it shouldn't be free either. Ritualist definitely needs a buff but in a way that doesn't buff Acolyte directly.

I would like to see Regeneration buffed back up again or at least have Mask of Fanatic increase the Totem's heal

I do like the concept of having Haul's range boosted, but that could potentially conflict with Blood Connection, so maybe Haul's speed could be boosted instead? I think the biggest issue with Shaman is that in terms of movement it sucks so having Haul launch the player at a greater speed would be a worthwhile incentive, plus that would make Frog Dance very viable for mobility

 

Few more things could be like greatly increased distance travelled with frog dance, also i think awakened should do more dmg coz you usually use Mask of the Lunatic and the ws + def arent that useful

 

Fanatic was more useful before the nerf (which is justified), and honestly Fanatic still isn't a bad option (I use it in TNA in situations where I'm about to encounter unavoidable damage like The Greater One's Arrow Storm)

You probably know this but for anyone who doesn't, Mask of Awakened does poop damage because it also takes into account Fanatic's negative damage buff, which makes it less powerful than Lunatic. Furthermore, it also takes into account Coward's negative resistance which hurts Fanatic's resistance buff (and essentially all of this makes mask of Awakened worse than just having a single Mask active). Also Lunatic's negative walk speed also counters Coward's walk speed, so really the Mask of Awakened is just conflicting with itself with all these stat buffs and nerfs.

The mask only lasts for a few seconds so I don't see the harm in removing all the negative effects. More of an incentive to go with Ritualist

 

Yeah but either Lunatic and Coward need to switch, or it should have some different buffs coz like Acolyte (which is quite literally immortal with its heals), has the +50% aura dmg and shocking wave while still easilly getting mask of the lunatic

 

Another option would be to reduce mask of the lunatic damage bonus to 30%, and then add an ability later on in the tree that increases lunitic's damage by another 30%. It wouldn't be as front loaded, but would remain an option Archetype dips.

 

Awakened still needs to have the negatives deleted tho