SPOILER I reverse engineered Ritualist with one spoiler.

This was put into the #ability-spoilers channel in the Wynncraft Discord yesterday, at 10:58pm.
I then proceeded to do the following.

Ah yes, totally sane behavior.

Ok, me going absolutely insane aside, I took this one spoiler and took it to it's own end.

Ritualist Overview
Before we jump into new info, what do we know before this spoiler?
We only knew this one description about Ritualist.

Ritualist Archetype
Ritualists create
miracles through hymns and dances, and can change
state on the fly with masks.
(Buffs, Versatility)

Not a lot of info, I know. 2.0 Dev Stream didn't have any comments on Ritualist except it's not going to be showcased, and that this is the description for ritualist.
I think you can already understand how this archetype would play out.
You switch your masks out to play in different game styles, while using your abilities for hymns and dances (aka various buffs to your abilities, as we learn later)

Contrast Increasing
My first, immediate thought was to locate where this ability was on the tree.
In the back of the original image, you can see a VERY dark ability tree.
By increasing the contrast of this image in 2 softwares: Windows Photos & PDN, I got this.

Alternatively, you may like this image better.

Now, I could see the full extent of the tree in the background.

With help from lemonalade's thread of the 2.0 Class Ability Trees, I was able to pinpoint this in the Shaman Ability Tree.

However, there's one problem.
This is not the tree shown in the background.

The Developers Change Their Minds
In the original image, the Pink Ability, is highlighted in the top right corner, slightly lighter than the background. This highlight means the description we are seeing, is from that ability.
If we assume this is the correct location for it, and the tree was just shifted around a bit, I estimate this ability is unlocked around 40-50, though I could just be plain wrong.

However, this one curves slightly to the right, and mostly down.
In my reverse-engineered picture shown above, this is not the case.
I scoured through every page of the ability tree that was shown on dev stream. Here is all the ability tree pictures, if you'd like to take a look.

Spoiler: Tree Pictures

The first 3 pages were omitted due to unnessecity, and to prevent me hitting the image limit.

So, what now? To what end?
Well, this end.

Other Routes
There isn't just one route to discover Ritualist.
There's more to Ritualist than one ability's placement in the tree.
There's WAY more.

First off, Ritualist's description.

Ritualist Archetype
Ritualists create
miracles through hymns and dances, and can change
state on the fly with masks.
(Buffs, Versatility)

From this, it is clear that Ritualists focuses on being versatile, by swapping masks.
Let's investigate each part.

Masks
Masks may seem very simple, but in reality, it is not.
There are 2 likely candidates for how masks play out.

Candidate 1:
In this first scenario, there are two masks. A defensive one, and an offensive one. The defensive one would give various health and defense related buffs to you and your allies. The offensive one, is the Mask of the Lunatic, and would give various offensive buffs to you and your team, such as shown in the ability Hymn of Hate above. My reasoning that this is a candidate, is that DnD's Paladin does a very similar thing, switching between focusing on offense or defense.

Candidate 2:
In this second scenario, there is an offensive and defensive mask, but also an healing mask, that focuses on healing and empowering enemies. This is likely, as this is WoW's take on DnD's paladin. It also makes sense as 3 masks feel much nicer to play with, as compared to only 2.

A Second, Confusing Lead
There's one more piece of the puzzle we're missing.
Let's take a look at Acolyte for another moment.



Blocks... Regeneration? What?
No, go back to that 4th page of the Shaman Ability tree.
The Red Ability on the left is Puppet Master, that lets Shaman summon Summons. The Red Ability on the right is the one I showed above: Sacrifical Shrine.
I have reason to believe that the one in the middle is Regeneration.
My best guess is that it acts similar to how Shaman's totem currently heals us.
I believe this as it is the only missing red ability, and in other clips, totem does not heal us.
This is further expanded upon that at the top of the tree, totem is not stated to heal.

But now, this theory gets us into a very awkward situation.
Why would Ritualist gain totem healing as a Red Ability? And, it also means that the Mask of the Lunatic would have to be a Yellow or Pink ability, which doesn't make sense in my opinion.

With this in mind, I believe Regeneration is actually the Yellow Ability, right below the Red Ability.

Dances & Hymns
Despite what the description implies, you aren't gonna be singing prayers to Salted through your microphones. Instead, your dances & hymns are simply abilities on your ability tree, that cause your spells to do miracles. For example, in the Hymn of Hate, shown above, Aura's that kill enemies also make the enemies cast Aura.
There's not really much to say in this section compared to masks.

Give me TL;DR!
From this spoiler, we can learn the following about Ritualist:
- The leaked ability is decently early on in the tree, estimating unlock around level 40-50.
- Ritualist's "dances and hymns" are really just abilities that make your spells be stronger.
- Depending on what Wynncraft wants, there are either 2 or 3 masks that the Ritualist will be able to switch between, with 3 being a more likely answer.

Conclusion
I wanna give a massive thanks to @lemonalade to making the tree showing all 5 2.0 classes' abilities. This would not have been possible without their thread.
I would also like to apologize for the lack of images in the latter half, as I do not really know what to put for images, and I am worried about hitting the image limit for one post.

With all of this in mind, this is a congregation of all the new information I have gathered. Thanks to lemonalade for making the original info.

Thank you for taking your time to read this thread, and I wish you a good day/night!

Disclaimer
I am not a CT member, and this is all speculation. I can not confirm whether any of this is correct. This is just an educated guess based on info we have been given, and some speculation. For all I know, I could be horribly wrong.

Spoiler: Edit History

7/31: Fixed a bad spoiler, and added something related to the blocked Regeneration ability.

 

wait this is sick, good job figuring this stuff out with such little info

 

ty

 

when endistic is in a cave with only a box of scraps:
lol anyways great work with such little info!

 

ty again

 

you're my best friend but i think you should go get some help

 

Yes worship me /j
Hopefully shaman gets released soon for the sake of sparing your sanity

 

jokes on you, i already lost all my sanity
if another spoiler releases w/o shaman releases im probably gonna go into the negatives

 

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