Guild Wars 2

Ranger spirit buffs prioritize buffing minions and pets and turrets, and even each other, over players.

To replicate, get 5 minions of any kind, pets, turrets, summons, spirits, etc.
Summon Spirits.

The players do not get the spirit buffs.

This is a very big bug for ranger spirits, because it makes them arbitrarily useless depending on how many summons your team has. Spirits buffing each other is pointless.

The attached picture shows a random person’s pet receiving spirit buff priority over both me and and a person in my party-

Notice how neither of us have the frost/sun spirit buffs on our bars, while the pet of the random person has both.

Bumping this because this is a huge problem- Spirits are essentially useless in certain team comps as they are. They buff Mesmer Illusions, Engi Turrets, and each other-

Taking 2 spirits lowers the effectiveness of both- Frost, lightnign and stone Spirits aren’t worth taking at all if there’s a mesmer, reaper, engineer, or another ranger.

Sun Spirit is only okay because burns are burns and they stack in magnitude.

This is a big issue not only for ranger but for ALL minions in game. Mesmer clones give alacrity to other minions etc, same for scapper gyros etcetc..

Anet, fix this asap, it’s gamebreaking!

Oh, that’s worse than I thought. A single Ranger could potentially troll everything by just bringing 4 spirits.

Really needs to be fixed fast.