Guild Wars 2

I searched for this but didn’t come up with much. How does this skill work? The initial activation gives a one time heal? Does it heal everyone within a certain range? The activated effect (“Nature’s Renewal”) is described as “Command your spirit of nature to revive and cure conditions on nearby downed allies.” If you press 0, what happens? Does it revive and cure conditions on multiple allies? Or does it pick one and if so how does it pick that one? Does it both revive and cure conditions? If not how does it decide whether to revive or cure? Can you actually command anything or do you just press 0 and the spirit acts of its own accord?

I was in Twilight Arbor the other night and half of our group wiped. I called up the spirit, hit 0, and it proceeded to revive not one of the downed players but a downed NPC who was lying right in the middle of a bunch of spider eggs. He jumped up, aggroed the spiders, which then wiped the rest of us.

I used to use the spirit in a full bunker build.

If you are traited for the spirit to move, it will follow you like a pet, otherwise it will spawn where you cast it and stay there.

The spirit is basically a really powerful Heal over Time. I dont remember how much it used to tick for, but it was quite a bit, and was AoE.

The /use ability is a PBAoE revive/cure that will fire where the spirit is when you activate it.

The AoE is friggin low, when not traited, that’s the main problem with it.
It’s a great way to self-rezz or rezz nearby allies, but at range, it’s just not that good… cause you’d have to swoop there and drop your spirit.