Guild Wars 2

there are tons of spirit weapon traits, it seems like it could be fun.

reduces recharge on spirit weapons by 20%
spirit weapons are not destroyed when commanded
increases spirit weapon damage by 50%
spirit weapons cause burning
spirit weapons last 50% longer

thoughts?

there fun to play around with i don’t use them because they don’t stay around long enough to really help a lot

Its called a druid build. And its terribad. Fun to kill open world PVE trash with. But complete kitten.

None of the traits are really worthwhile. What you can do to address the fundamental problem of them being so squishy they get their kitten destroyed in dungeons is use them when you’re running an innately AOE-heal centric or highly supportive build, like anything with a Mace, or Symbol healing, or Hammer, or any combination thereof. Writ of the Merciful + Mace/Hammer can typically keep a Sword alive as long as you’re fighting near it. Sword is the only one worth using in dungeons though – Hammer knocks enemies away from you which is bad, Bow is useless, and Shield is used in specific encounters but that’s it.

Basically the one saving grace is that they are affected by boons and healing.

foofad.5162:

Basically the one saving grace is that they are affected by boons and healing.

Yeah, a spirit weapon-mace build wouldn’t be bad for open world PvE or maybe leveling.
What would that look like trait-wise though? Hmm…

EDIT: Guys, I discovered the new meta: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNApdrEhgTBpIyKwSrHAsf+rqQ8uUkwHC-jgyAYLI0WApGBkIAl8kGziCpF3ioxqWwUlER1ejioVDA-e

I would do something like this instead:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNApdiEhgTBpIyFYzAg9rqQ8weoRP+RA-jAyAotASNCYyTZNLKIWcLiGraBTVSEV7NKiWNA-e

The Spirit Weapon duration trait is not worth sacrificing the other options you have. Neither is the Mace trait. Keep in mind that Spirit Weapons only go on cooldown once they die, so if your Sword gets killed after 10 seconds it’s as if you never had the trait at all.

Edited to add: The other thing is that Mace isn’t the greatest weapon to park in long term. It’s good to make use of the cooldowns, particularly Protector’s Strike to get some extra AOE burst in (as long as you don’t wait around for someone to hit you) but generally speaking you want to use it in conjunction with a weapon that has high base DPS. So in this case Hammer is a good choice to hang out with while you wait for weapon swap and other cooldowns on the Mace to wear off.