Guild Wars 2

Just thought the storm spirit is pretty much useless right now. I think if it “grants nearby allies a chance to strip (1 or 2) boons when attacking” rather than swiftness, spirit rangers would be more viable. Rangers does not have any boon stripping skills anyway~

1 boon would be great. 2 boons might be a little OP in group fights.

Edit: Also change active to 20 seconds of swiftness.

Idk even 1 boon would be very powerful lol. Total boon hate on a target, although rangers should be good at something I guess. And I agree swiftness is meh.

Well, with an internal cooldown of 8 to 10 seconds should really balance it out.

Yeah but it applies to the party so that is 5 boons every 10 seconds. But that is assuming you get a really good proc and are running 70% proc on spirits so actually I’m going to change my stance and agree with you.

I just feel spirits still need a little something something, the recent buff was great but I believe they just pale in comparison to banners.

how about… and i’m just throwing this out there as a crazy idea

but the storm spirit causes a chance to land a lighting strike?

Fiorrello.8126:

how about… and i’m just throwing this out there as a crazy idea

but the storm spirit causes a chance to land a lighting strike?

The active does a lightning strike…what would the active be changed to?

Fiorrello.8126:

how about… and i’m just throwing this out there as a crazy idea

but the storm spirit causes a chance to land a lighting strike?

We already have the Frost spirit for extra damage; don’t need an extra spirit for more damage. Thanks for the input though. And like Mcrocha said, the active for storm spirit is a lightning strike already.

How about chance to gain vigor when hit, and changing the activate to a stun/daze?

I think the storm spirit should go with the theme of storm/air on other parts of the game.
That theme usually goes as speed – crits – CC.
A good change would be it gives fury instead (or on top of) swiftness and the active is a 1/2sec (or 1/4sec) stun.

I also like the idea about stealing/stripping boons, but I think that would fit more a reef-rider pet.

Nah. We already have access to stun/daze, fury, etc. I think in one of the SOTGs, the devs were talking about placing more options for people to fight against boons. Since rangers have no access to boon stripping abilities, I thought placing this on a useless spirit would be a good idea lol.