Guild Wars 2

I was playing around with spirits again after they got nerfed to death to see if I could make something work when I noticed a few things that make spirits even worse than I thought they were:

Once you cast a spirit, it seriously takes 3 seconds for the spirit to give you it’s effect? Once the spirit is summoned it should be immediate! Then I was looking at the sun spirit and the numbers are way off. It does not have a 75% chance of granting burning. It actually seems it has a 75% of not granting burning. Is there an internal cooldown on the burning or something? And why does it take so long for it to apply blind when I command it to cast solar flare? If I need blind, I need it now. I’d like to use it tactically; not predict it will be effective in 1-2 seconds from now.

I also noticed that even after I kill the spirit, it continues to grant it’s effect for a good 15 seconds after it dies. I’m happy about that, but that’s not what the tooltip says.

Perhaps I’m missing something, but it seems these spirits may not be working as they’re supposed to. Somebody wanna actually explain this to me?

75% still means a 25% chance to fail. Just cause you see some bad luck in it, does not mean overall you not got your 75% in the end. Also I would assume it more a bonus and not as your wild card, since it could still fail.
I do not know about the death, but a lot of boon when offer have a timer, and some things effect how long it last, and it might be though things that you see the effect with too.

It’s not like I just tried it once. I did it very many times, far more than is necessary for a statistically sound measurement. It is not 75% chance. I was seeing MAYBE 10% chance overall. This does not add up at all, unless there’s an internal cooldown once you do trigger the burning.

Except for frost spirit, all others have an internal cooldown, can’t remember for how long though.
So it has 75% to cause burn when it is off CD, that is why in practice it is less than 75% uptime.

Well, the spirit mechanics need a serious re-work all around.

Still seem like it worked like it suposed too.

Anybody know what the ICD is?