Update - 2/17

BUH Will revive:

-Dead spirits
-Dead Summons from skill
-Dead summons from stone

Will not revive:
-Minions


Me + Friend have been going crazy. 10+ ruby djinns + a million spirits is lol stomping everything and anything. hoping to clear entire UW + dhuum before update lol

Anet's probably gone home by now. Any changes like BUH, the /deaths fiasco, and other associated bugs will probably be fixed in the morning.

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I would have to agree; spirits don't do any damage

Agreed. The time it takes to set up a bunch of spirits just is not worth the 30 seconds of PB or SL based damage.

If you summon the spirits just once they do 1/3rd damage. Any more summoning and they do zero damage.

EDIT - As a solo. After looking at the pictures above, a team might work well.

Access to the PH 50% requires you to have a Derv enchant to strip, which means you have to pay the cost for the enchantment and stance every time you want that movement burst. To get a similar output as Dash, you need at least two skills and a decent spec in Mysticism.

Overall, it's better than Dash in PvE if you're going to run (lol pious renewal + dwarven stability), but fair enough in PvP. Who would even bother really running Dash or PH in PvP anyways?

playing with derv, here something survivor will be alot easier for new players, cause able to hit 1k+ hp at 20, probaly 600+.

they dont. But summons still use skills and do dmg. I have an entourage of 15 ruby djinnis right now.

And spiritleech + painful is more than enough when you got 50+ spirits


EDIT: yeah i am totally over spirits now. Summons is where its at. 100+ summons in your party. Walk into uw and just walk around watch things die. Pop a BU for nice running

Just went to UW with full party, hard mode. We all had spirits + buh. It's not very effective although it sounds and looks impressive. It's quite easy to kill aaxtes and darknesses. But wastes are nightmare. Need painfull bonds to make rezzed spirits effective and smites remove them regularly. Chaos planes(mindblades) are also innefective because hex breaker.+
We tried Escort quest and it takes forever. All in all not very good.

Having a Dervish enchant to strip is essentially required and they said it themselves, it is expected that you have a flash enchantment which are almost all under 10 recharge, and even then with Avatar of Lyssa thats no problem. Even if it was a problem you can combine IMS enchants with Pious haste

Flavor wise I'm disappointed, I play both professions but...im disappointed.
I demand a PvE split where Dash increases movement speed by 320%. for 7 seconds

Use Spirit Leech aura. For general purpose it will hold better, you don't need to hax the targets hexe for it to work.

what also thinking, Avatar of Grenth with ranger using toxicity, constant AoE heavy degan

oh god, that is so out of control.

I daresay that this is a record of sorts that is not about to be overdone with any future update.

If this isn't one for the history books I don't know what is.
A-net should remember this and summon 100 spirits or something for halloween later this year.

be perma Derv build coming up pretty soon, Pious Assault is just flat out OP when it comes to perma.

Will try. Overall all this mutiple spirit crap (while it lasts) needs some coordination with feast of souls + buh . In pug everyone just fires off BuH randomly.

Can we split the stupid spirit BUH bug/glitch into a separate thread please? Yes, it is interesting and LAWL worthy, but there are TONs of other skills that need discussing in this update besides that.

Only take 1 or 2 ppl to focus on spirits. ( need to coordinate BUH, and spiritleech+painful bond). Rest should take summons. Spend 10minutes working up 50+ summons and you just walk around UW and things die.

wondering is plains farming will come back now cause kill spectres without using hex just use derv enchants awhile under SF, have SF recharged using Pious Assault, how I see it like this pull small mob have them infront atk using like Heart of Holy Flame than Pious Assault cast SF, repeat over and over again.

This multiple spirit bug is definitely going to be fixed by tomorrow, so there is no point in putting too much effort into it.

Not that it really matters because it takes so much effort to set it up its not worth it anyways.

I won't bother with BuH glitch anymore cause it won't last.

Here's the thing that bothers me :
Since they partially killed WE scythe, is it possible that they could adjust the attack speed of a hammer to be 1.5 s too? This would motivate me to use hammer more often. This could probably affect something in pvp (and therefore they would have to adjust some warrior skills again), but in pve it wouldn't be that much of a big deal. I remember that anet said that hammers weren't so popular before. Even after that tactics / hammer skills update it is still kinda meh.

Quickening Zephyr + Serpent's Quickness to make sure you never run out of BUH time while soloing.