Channeling Magic

The Channeling Magic attribute reflects a Ritualist's skill when using offensive damage spells. This is not a primary attribute and may be used by secondary ritualists.

Guild Wars Description
No inherent effect. Many Ritualist skills, especially those related to lightning damage and energy, become more effective with higher Channeling Magic.

General Description
Channeling Magic is a requrement for meeting some wand and staffs max damage.

The Channeling Magic attribute increases the damage and energy gain through channeling magic skills.

Associated skills
Channeling Magic is the main way a Ritualist can deal direct damage without relying on spirits. Channeling Magic is probably the best choice for a player who does not want to use spirits or is using Ritualist as a second class.

Channeling Magic can do big damage, probably more than an Air Mage. As both Air Magic and Channeling Magic deal lightning damage they can be used very well in tandem with each other, but the energy benifit from Energy Storage would probably make the Elementalist the wiser choice for the first class. Skills like Spirit Rift, Channeled Strike and Spirit Boon Strike can destroy a target quickly.

There are also a lot of Channeling Magic that can be used with spirits, but using Channeling Magic, Communing and Spawning would mean that you would be dependent on Ritualist skills (this is because it is advised that only three attributes should be leveled up to create a well balanced character).

To some up, Channeling Magic is a very powerful weapon when used correctly, but is best used at the expense of spirits