Guild Wars 2

Recently Anet has continued to buff spirits and their chance to proc effects, but really, the only spirits that people are likely to use are Sun Spirit, Stone Spirit and Spirit of Nature because of the high-impact benefits they give.

This is the problem the other two Spirits have, they do not give benefits that are really worth notice. The 10% increased damage given by the Frost Spirit is great but the 10sec cooldown coupled with the fact that the proc is also based on chance just lessens it’s potential impact. On the other hand the Storm Spirit gives swiftness…. I’m still left wondering why I’d want to use it when I could just take a bird pet and Warhorn.

My suggestion for improving these skills is to give them a different proc ability. Frost Spirit should proc 2s of chill every 10sec. This may not be an offensive based proc but the utility of chill is undeniable, being able to constantly keep someone slowed and their defensive skills on long recharge can really put a damper on things. My suggestion for Storm Spirit is to change it to a chance to proc lightning strike once every 10 seconds or Proc Blind once every 10 seconds. I can see the lightning strike proc being very favourable in teams (maybe too favourable) and in that case, instead of lightning strike, a new skill could be in its place; Storm Strike. Lightning Strike but with 30% less damage.

That brings me to the active abilities. These skills have such a long cast time, yet they do so little. Nature’s Renewal is the best one out of all of them and yea it deserves its cast time but Solar Flare? Call Lightning? Quicksand and Cold Snap? Their cast times are just a bit overdone, on top of the fact that you have to bring the Spirits into melee to actual make use of those skills which furthers the unwillingness to use these spirits. My suggestion is to make these active abilities ground targeted and the targeting distance is based on distance from the Spirit itself. Having the abilities be ground targeted means that you can have the Spirit hidden out of arms way but still be able to send a rez or immob to someone with reduced risk of losing your Spirit.

So those are my suggestions. Please feel free to leave yours or scrutinize mine.