Guild Wars 2

Rangers can apparently buff siege damage as long as there aren’t too many players in the spirit radius hogging all the buffs (spirit buffs seem to prioritize players over pets/npcs/siege and then prioritize based on proximity to the spirit). I tried it myself with a treb and noticed the damage going from 6477 to 7124. I also set a few people on fire with ballistas. I can add damage to siege.

10% bonus damage 50% of the time (and/or setting one enemy on fire every 10s or so), is kinda cool. Something else most people may not know is that Frost Spirit does not have a 10s cooldown like other spirits (despite its claims to the contrary).

So while I’m hanging back with a spirit buffed ballista (and a couple levels of ballista mastery) and my 30BM pet with 25MB stationed on Guard duty down front, I feel like I’m doing a lot more damage than most people when using the same siege. Almost like some sort of long range master… weird right?

Is this intended?

I don’t have a solid verification that it also works on golems and I haven’t checked whether golems get player priority or not, but I was able to get the buff onto them with careful spirit placement (though you could also use good communication to get the siege near the spirits and everyone else outside of the invisible radius.) The hard part then is keeping the spirit alive which is an artform in itself.

Yarrr, if ’dis be true, ’den rangers finally be good ’fer something in WvW.

A lot of buffs work on players using siege. Just run a pure condition build sometime and hop on a arrow cart. I also siege to stack my sigils on my weapons! Lots of things you can explore with siege that most do not know.

iCryptik.1496:

Yarrr, if ’dis be true, ’den rangers finally be good ’fer something in WvW.

Ah, I’ve missed the Pirates’ posts from the BG/SOR/TC matchups.

My love for these posts aside, I agree with the Pirate. Personally I couldn’t care less if Rangers are able to buff siege damage. In my opinion, Rangers need some serious help when it comes to WvW, and if this makes them even slightly more desirable then more power to them. Of course, their core issues should still be addressed.

It would be nice if every profession had some special uses in WvW. Seeing people asking for eles to protect trebs or mesmers to port golems is commonplace. Or mesmers to hide in keeps… or elementalists to AoE siege… or mesmers to Time Warp… etc.

Here’s another pic showing +10% damage twice in the same blast, and setting a moa on fire with a cannonball. Compared to Frost Spirit, the Sun Spirit really is not that impressive.

I hope this is intended, I like little quirks like this.