Guild Wars 2

Having spirits being capable of receiving boons from other spirits and players seems to be a bit of a problem currently. I’ve noticed a few times that my spirits would not always apply boons to allies within their range, and would instead apply them to other spirits that were summoned. I think boons should either not be applied to spirits or spirits should be a low priority when receiving boons. Since spirits are not a combat pet, having them being capable of receiving boons isn’t very beneficial and they end up taking the boons players need instead.

This shouldn’t be happening as all NPCs throughout the game are lower priority on boons than players. I guess your allies aren’t in range.

They count each other as allies, which is fine, assuming they are prioritising party members 1st. Was there 5 party members within range? If not, then they would be applying the “excess” boons to reach the 5 target maximum. If there are 5 party members in range, then its a bug.

Since they can take damage, the boons applied to them will help them survive, but in PvE that is kinda moot now anyway, perhaps they should not be able to boon each other.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

They count each other as allies, which is fine, assuming they are prioritising party members 1st. Was there 5 party members within range? If not, then they would be applying the “excess” boons to reach the 5 target maximum. If there are 5 party members in range, then its a bug.

Since they can take damage, the boons applied to them will help them survive, but in PvE that is kinda moot now anyway, perhaps they should not be able to boon each other.

I can’t really remember specifically. I’m not sure if the allies were in a party with me or not. I remember two times when I wasn’t receiving the protection boon from my stone spirit even though I was right next to it and there wasn’t other allies around, besides an npc maybe. I did have 2-3 other spirits summoned though. I haven’t had many opportunities to test this more.
I was thinking mostly about pve when I made this post. Maybe it is more useful in pvp though. I think the better solution would probably be to not have them receive boons at all in pve.

Edit: Okay, well I tested it a bit just now, and it doesn’t prioritize non-party members. I’m not sure about party members though.

Either way, they should prioritize players over other spirits, I would submit a bug report on it.

Ok, I might do that then. I also noticed that the distance someone stands from the spirits has a lot of do with who gets the boons. The spirits also don’t prioritize players over ranger pets. I suppose that isn’t as bad but I would prefer the boons applying to me first before my pet.

is that fixed?
thx

lmao you necro’d a 5 months-old thread.
to answer your question, yes it was

sry about this, is the first in google search about this problem.