Guild Wars 2

I searched the forums and didn’t find any posts that specifically stated that pets benefit from spirit buffs. I was in the mists toying with some builds and testing spirits out and for the first time I noticed my “black feline of death” was applying burning to the golem. I was not attacking. The cat was applying burning from the sun spirit buff.

I tried it again and it kept happening. Were pets always affected by the buffs or is this a stealth buff?

Thanks.

Why would they not be?

Maybe you didn’t notice it before because of the five member limit on support skills. Pets take a lower priority than players so the majority of the time they will miss out on all the buffs being thrown around (unless you have the trait which shares ranger buffs). The range of spirits is also not that large so it’s possible the pet was out of range of your spirit before.

I don’t believe anything has changed. I didn’t explicitly test it before (I stopped using spirits during the BWE and only tried them out twice since then) so I can’t say for certain they are the same now as before, but I can think of reasons why you might not have seen pets benefit from them in the past.

Shiren.9532:

Why would they not be?

Maybe you didn’t notice it before because of the five member limit on support skills. Pets take a lower priority than players so the majority of the time they will miss out on all the buffs being thrown around (unless you have the trait which shares ranger buffs). The range of spirits is also not that large so it’s possible the pet was out of range of your spirit before.

I don’t believe anything has changed. I didn’t explicitly test it before (I stopped using spirits during the BWE and only tried them out twice since then) so I can’t say for certain they are the same now as before, but I can think of reasons why you might not have seen pets benefit from them in the past.

Thanks for the response. Part of the reason I’ve never seen it is because I’ve never attempted to use it. I was just pleasantly surprised. My ranger finally reached 80 and now that I’ve played BM bunker enough I’m experimenting. Knowing the 5 man limit is very helpful. I’m going to go back an test the buff’s range. I’m also, curious if the swiftness buff could help the pet stick to my opponent. Lastly, I want to know the range of the spirits second (activated) skills.

Now before people chime in and tell me spirits will be dead in a few hits my response is, “I know.” I’m just testing and then going for proof of concept. Who knows maybe something will work.

Again, thanks for the information.

Well, the range of the active spirit skills vary, but are generally between 150 and 240 radius (pretty small). The passive affects all allies (cap 5) in what seems to be a 900-1200 radius reapplying every 2s for 5s.