Pet Ritualist weapon and attributes?

[xeposuwa]

For a Ritualist that mainly focuses on pets, what type of weapon and attribute distribution?

• Attacking with Psionic Beam, i.e., should be using a staff.
  
  • Elemental staff: Scales off Intelligence, requires a ton of Intelligence. Not many ways of boosting the damage via mastery (only via Susceptibility?)
  • Vitality or Strength staff: Scales off Intelligence or Strength, but most of the items themselves still require a ton of Intelligence. More ways of boosting the damage via mastery (Lucid Dream/Strength of the Pack/Susceptibility?). Rare items, might not even find one?
• Just holding a weapon with pet bonus (not trying to contribute attack damage at all)
  
  • Staff seems to be the only weapon type that can roll with pet bonus, will require a ton of Intelligence for the better ones
  • Ragnarok has some legendary weapons with pet bonuses. Requires Strength and Dexterity. Rare items, might not even find one? Not relevant before endgame?
• Am I missing something? Is there a better way?

No particular one of these seems especially appealing to me and I wouldn't know what to pick and the different options would require quite different attribute allocation, so I probably have to decide on a route early and can't change my mind later.

What kind of weapon would you use on a Ritualist that is mainly focused on pets and what attribute distribution to go along with it?

[Medea Fleecestealer]

Ideally you want a full "set" of Bonus to Pets items and those are jewellery and staves.   You'll get plenty of intel from both masteries; the usual route is just to put enough into dex to equip items and the rest into intel. 

I usually just rely on the pets to do all the fighting.  I might use Plague to help them out, but that's it apart from buffs/auras.  You could use Psionic Touch line if you wanted to I guess.

[xeposuwa]

Running with mostly Intelligence now and a staff that augments the pet skills.
Working well so far, thanks.