Guild Wars 2

I did some testing tonight in a post-victory dungeon situation, as I noticed a potential problem earlier in the evening. I drop sun, stone and frost spirit. Obviously, it’s hard to tell when the 10% damage bonus of frost spirit kicks in.

However, when traited with Vigorous Spirits, both Sun Spirit and Stone Spirit have a 70% chance to trigger ON HIT, both protection and burning.

From my testing, my first 5 attacks stack burning, and I usually get 1 or 2 stacks of protection. Then, I get roughly one tick of burning and protection for every 15-20 hits.

Maybe I am missing something with the mechanic, but a 70% chance to cause burning and protection from the two spirits should trigger more than every 15-20 hits.

Let me know if anyone else sees this issue. I will keep testing and give an update here if I am wrong, but as far as I can see, it seems bugged.

Thanks.

UPDATE: Just did more testing on veteran pinesouls, so I could get more hits in. The best run of applying burning that I had was 3 out of 21 hits. That is the only time out of several fights that I got more than burning to trigger more than twice. All fights were at least 10 hits, all but one time were 2 or less burning triggers.

FS has no internal cooldown. The other spirits have a 10 second cooldown.

I was curious about the spirits too.
Can you guyz tell me why every spirit has written “Effect Recharge: 10 Seconds” ?
Frost Spirit doesn’t seem to have an Internal Cooldown. Others seem to have either 6 or 10, I dunno.

May it be possible that if you hit volley – it can proc more effects since it hits simultaneously?

Oops, I mis-remembered the CD. The “effect recharge” is the CD. I believe the (6s) refers to how long the affect lasts in your boons.