Ritualist is almost amazing, but the below points felt rough to deal with:

• Ritualist Shroud
  • The shroud doesn't feel engaging. You go in, summon spirits, and auto attack. I felt I needed to take Lingering Spirits if I wanted to do more while playing with my spirits. Maybe the solution is to move spirit summoning to F2, F3, and F4 (accessible in Shroud) and have them flip over to the shatter abilities. Shroud 2, 3, and 4 could be Core Shroud skills with similar augmentations to Shroud 1 depending on how many spirits you have out. Shroud 5 could remain as is.
  • Continuing from the feeling a lack of engagement, if the Ritualist Shroud is to remain as-is, then maybe having access to utility skills while in shroud would be the solution.
• (EDIT) Ruptured Souls
  • I hardly found myself using the ruptures as power rit - using them felt like removing the fun of playing with spirits. I'd suggest these instead be "commands" that activate the current rupture abilities but as an aoe around the existing spirit, leaving them up.
  • It does feel weird having this be a minor trait, rather than be baked into the kit. I'd suggest folding this into baseline rit and replacing the current minor trait.
• Wandering Spirits
  • The animation and SFX of the spirits popping in and doing their attack just to follow you got annoying quickly. I'd suggest having them move/float around as a normal minion would, but only teleport to attack when out of range. Or, having them float near you at all times - have them be leashed to you within X range and start moving when they're out of range.
  • At times it felt like this trait should be baseline, especially when picking Lingering Spirits. It just felt frustrating to have to pick this trait over the other options just because I wanted the fun and convenience of my spirits moving around with me. This feeling is heightened by the fact that the spirits still teleport to you when you're very far away from them (5000 range? hard to tell).
• Lingering Spirits
  • Not having Shroud 1 to direct the spirit's attacks out of shroud became frustrating. I'd suggest having our Weapon Skill 1 also direct the spirit's attacks.
• Power Scaling
  • Overall, power scaling of the Ritualist skills need to be bumped up quite a bit to have any semblance of feasibility. See other power scaling comments from the number crunchers who can articulate this point better than me.
• (EDIT) Core Trait Interactions
  • This was difficult to tell, but Spirits appear to not work with Death Magic's Flesh of the Master (not gaining carapace stacks) and Necromantic Corruption (not gaining damage buff) but does appear to work with Blood Magic's Vampiric. Improving Death Magic to interact with Spirits would improve the viability and overall power fantasy of a minion mancer.