Guild Wars 2

Never really payed much attention to spirits, and I’m looking for a good build for WvW. I know most pets in the game in general are pretty squishy in zergy fights. I’m curious how the spirits handle themselves. Or are they just as squishy as any other pet out there and not worth using.

pets are TANKS compared to spirits.
Anything can kill them in a couple autoattacks. In wvw they’re only “useful” (as like, not completely worthless) when defending keeps

Spirits are about as much use as a handbrake on a canoe !

the frost spirit is great for trebbing. That’s it.

Unfortunatly spirits suck atm.. traps give about the same effect but they dont die in 2 sec like spirits and have shorter CD.. I had to test it for myself since i always go full melee and spirits could work so kitten goooood with melee if they had a overhaul.. but atm they are completely useless…

Spirits are more squishy then pets, although Spirit of Nature has more survivability then the utility spirits. That doesn’t make them completely useless, though. If you are able to place your spirits out of harms way, on top of a wall, or inside a tower while you’re standing up on the wall, they can be useful. But if you run around with spirits in WvW, they will die faster then you can say “I could outrun a centaur!”.

Spirits are god awful and in need of fixes. They’re worse than useless.

I stopped expecting them after our patch of “We know there’s a problem! We’re just, um, working on that! Here’s a quickness nerf!”