How so? Healing Strike will ignore armor.
EDIT: to clarify I don't think that is ideal, but it isn't much of a big deal to me. This is in the same logic to me that the spell strike skill Empowered Strike is completely replaced by Warrior's Incantation. As in there is no point in taking the skill if you can even sometimes have access to that ritual on a weapon because of how much better it is.
It was removed in playtests of yore, but they have been added back in due to feedback. I, too, hate the idea of having to ask "does X Slayer work on you?" or whatever.Let's get rid of monster slayer (and race reaver for parody). They're the only rituals in the game that where the player using them has to make an assumption. I hate that so much.
Probably because that verbal would be utterly annoying during actual combat.
As someone who had a weapon that dealt 13 Lightning for a season, I think players can handle it.
-MS