Guild Wars 2

Will you play spirits after this change? Yes or no, keep it short ty.

Hope so…most stupid build ever and way way way too much rewarding considering skills needed to play it (Absolutely zero)…made hs spam thieves look like ultra-pro players..

So you’re saying spirits are a terrible mechanic and ANET screwed up in designing them? On a related note, I have an easier time winning with wellomancer necro than spirit ranger.

Hey there Chopps. I know you are taking the changes pretty rough and I am sorry for that. My suggestion is to go back into sPvP (hotjoin, soloqueue, teamqueue, whatever it is you prefer) and find a way to make it work if Spirits is the build you really, really like.

On first glance it seems the changes have put Spirits inline with other utility summons for other professions and, by consequence, made the build require more thought and skill. This is not to say that the build is dead, however, but it will likely have a different feel and flow to it.

Don’t let the changes, or other players, get you down. If Spirits is the build you love then go in and play Spirits; learn how to adjust to the changes. If after putting in sufficient experience playing with it you feel the changes have destroyed the Spirit utilities, then come back with evidence and suggestions.

I like the change, it’s less of a passive rip off of necromancer and more of a summon a spirit as you need it sort of play style now, which worked VERY well before that meta caught on. It also rewards killing the spirits quickly instead if having that chance where the spirit ranger can just summon it back immediately, and also lessens the punishment to the ranger for having all his spirits killed when summoned.

I’ll probably try out spirits again now that it’s not mind numbingly stupid, but I may still stick with my Survival(utility type) build instead, it all depends.