Ritualism weaker then taming? Have none of you guys played a tamer recently? We have done a lot of testing with ritual pets now. And if you use high quality gems and the right carcasses, then ritual pets are a LOOOOT stronger then normal pets.
They take less dmg because they have resistance which makes them somewhat easier to heal but have lower HP pools then living counterparts.
My lvl 101 terrorbird, the highest i can bring with a horse, does around 19 dmg to a full steel thursar. Our ritualist took that dmg up to around 35.
He probably used a diamond as gem. sure thats expensive. But always keep in mind that can train his Bird up to lvl 125 AND can have a lvl 125 horse!!!!
Ohhh and he technically only needs 200 primaries for that? Instead of the 400 to 600 for taming. You can be a MA/Footfighter thursar and bring a freaking full lvl Bird and Horse. just for fun.
I do get that Ritual needs to be stronger because its a lot mor time/money investement and you cant really make any money off of it. But its just such a freaking lot that you get just for 200 primaries.
Unfortunately it is always people with a lot of assumptions like you that haven't done any testing and just talk about something that friends have told them. First of all there are no "Diamonds" in game. The highest gem you can use is an Adamant. I do have a Tamer with 100 CC and 100 ACC and 100 Taming. Ritual Pets do not have the same damage/hitpoints, even when made out of Adamant and the best support carcass. They also lack in damage mitigation which is the most problematic. So even with the starter sword and some good parries (Terrorbird has just one attack direction for example and is very easy to parry), you shred them in pieces in no time. 400 to 600 points for Taming? You count in Animal Care? Which you also need for necro rituals or your pet levling is just extremely slow because als risen pets start at level 50. Beast Influence and Beast Mastery aren't working just to inform you. A couple of the necromancers I know (me inclusive) have created excelsheets with a lot of pages getting all the data together for gems, artifacts and carcasses. It is not that we assume something when talking about this, it comes from hard facts that we have gathered by spending a lot of gold and time. So please If you can not bring hard facts to the table keep a distance to the feedback section because it just ruins any serious written feedback.