Guild Wars 2

Spirits apparently dont work underwater when u summon them on land…

as soon as u dip into water u lose all ur spirits

this is kinda kittened isnt it? i mean there were not that great to begin with.. now u can counter it by just running through a pond…

more problem is atm a bug on spirits,
when we summon them and press the active effect fast, it goes on cooldown but dont cast.
most big problem of this is on rez ulti :/

It think this was the “fix” for the “exploit” of casting 3 spirits underwater when you were fighting near water. You could load the spirits as your underwater utilities, cast them underwater, then pop back up on land and use 3 other utilities while getting the benefit of the spirits.

A more elegant solution would’ve been to kill the spirit if you go from land <=> water and don’t have that spirit loaded in your other utility bar. That way if you have a particular spirit skill loaded both above and below water, it wouldn’t die. (I haven’t tested it so they may have actually coded it this way.)

Or you could treat it as inventive skill use and not an exploit. But ANet seem to be constantly on the look out for any excuse to nerf the crap out of rangers.