Why do all spirits face east? - Guild Wars Guru Archive

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We Step on Puppies [PuP]

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Joined Mar 2006

Dec 26, 2006 at 2:56 PM • #1

I was playing around with my new ritualist using Restoration and Recovery. I noticed before long that whenever I cast a spirit it would be facing east no matter what was I was facing.

Is there a significance to this? Are you guys having the same thing happen?

Epinephrine

Master of Beasts

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

Joined Mar 2005

Dec 26, 2006 at 3:26 PM • #2

They're praying to Mecca, obviously.

No idea, probably just that a default direction is needed for orienting things, and typically on a cartesian plane zero degrees corresponds to east. since the positive x axis is 0/360 degrees, and on a map would be east, it just makes sense from a default perspective.

M

Made In Ascalon

Krytan Explorer

None

Rt/

Joined Jun 2006

Dec 27, 2006 at 4:17 AM • #3

Quote: Originally Posted by Epinephrine

They're praying to Mecca, obviously. You just won 3 internets.

jon0592

Wilds Pathfinder

N/

Joined Jan 2006

Dec 30, 2006 at 2:49 AM • #4

It's just like Dodge/Zojun's Haste.

Whenever you use the skill, there are 2 flat yellow panels coming out of your body, but they always face north (the super paper thin sides are W and E)

Bankai

Desert Nomad

Bubblegum Dragons

Mo/E

Joined Sep 2006

Jan 4, 2007 at 10:11 PM • #5

I was playing GvG yesterday, and was waiting for a bit. We run a split build with a ritualist on our flag team and I'm always on the gank team. We had changed monks and while the enemy was turtling I looked at the spirits and I was shocked.

They face east indeed.

Redfeather1975

Forge Runner

Rhedd Asylum

Me/

Joined Sep 2006

Jan 4, 2007 at 11:53 PM • #6

Pac-man always comes from the east and the ghosties are very scared of him.
Is very true.

Retribution X

Desert Nomad

N/

Joined Nov 2005

Jan 7, 2007 at 7:53 PM • #7

I didn't really ever give a damn, so I never noticed.

NukeouT

Pre-Searing Cadet

Rt/N

Joined Jan 2007

Jan 21, 2007 at 11:06 PM • #8

Quote: Originally Posted by Bankai

I was playing GvG yesterday, and was waiting for a bit. We run a split build with a ritualist on our flag team and I'm always on the gank team. We had changed monks and while the enemy was turtling I looked at the spirits and I was shocked.

They face east indeed. yup same here

(i guess they might have had orientation programming problems)

-also it would be weird for a spirit with chains-to-ground to be spinning around in circles.