Guild Wars 2

If I’m traited all the way to allowing spirits to move and follow me, will they stay alive until killed? Or will I need to keep re-summoning them every 1.5 minutes?

Thanks

Gotta keep summoning them every 60 seconds or w/e their life spawn is. Spirit build is awsome btw until you face aoe stages in dungeons and what not, then they become useless

Oh that’s a pity. I envisioned having these spirits with me everywhere, like how necromancers have their minions.

Spirits are incredibly fun.

Until you are faced with the terrible inner 10 second cooldown on their procs, and them dying when being farted upon.

Also, I think spirits are included in the five person limit for procs. Meaning that your pet and any spirits up will or could steal the buff from other members of the group.

Agadar.4931:

……… dying when being farted upon.

So poetic and correct!

Pendleton.6385:

Also, I think spirits are included in the five person limit for procs. Meaning that your pet and any spirits up will or could steal the buff from other members of the group.

They changed that, or so they say. Buffs now prioritize players, then pets, then NPC’s. It used to be all equal.

Cool. Thanks, Agadar. I didn’t know that.

Yeah, spirits are cool when you use it in the PvP lobby, but as soon as something stares at them, they explode.

I want to run a spirit herder build with my ranger, but currently that’s simply not viable.

I’m running spirit-build for ages now and I’m doing just fine, I run it mostly wvw. When fully traited and make sure you’re in the backlines and not targeted much, you can be of great assistance to your party/group/zerg. I’m running SB/LB.
Dungeons/PvE is a bit different story though. My spirits get targeted—>killed faster. Though still I find them usefull enough, my party gets protection from stone spirit very often, burning also helps as well damage buff from frost spirit. I only use storm spirit when my party brings enough burning already.