Guild Wars 2

Ranger support specs are not only lackluster, but counterproductive as well. Most of this has to do with things like Call of the Wild and Healing Spring capping at 5 targets. Even if spirits become more viable, each additional spirit in a build eats buffs that would otherwise be more beneficial on players. A possible solution would be to increase the target hit cap on buffs to 10 and/or give players higher priority.

Spirits themselves are extremely squishy, even with the double hp trait. Any decent AoE has them dying in short order. While it would be nice if they were made intangible like the guardian spirit weapons, it’s probably more likely to get a hp buff.

Spirit internal cooldown. Some say there’s no internal cooldown, some say there is. The tooltips all show a 10 second ICD. Regardless, 10 seconds is too long in my opinion to provide meaningful support. Either lower the ICD or incease the effect duration on proc. Additionally, the increased proc chance trait is still a trap trait as it’s not that beneficial assuming the 10 second ICD applies to all spirits.

Attempting to use spirit activated abilities in many fights gets them killed. This ties mainly into the low hp pool. If spirit hp isn’t increased then maybe the activated abilities should be ground or mob targeted?

The class in general needs help, we all know this.