Is it just me that thinks sprites are useless?

I don’t know if it’s just me but the only one that seems to be of any use is the water sprite. The earth/gold earth sprite does absolutely nothing in terms of finding better loot in fact I think the gold one was more useless for me than the standard one. I’ve seen it work for other opponents but my fire sprite seems to do nothing, ghost sprite is decent but the rest seem to be genuinely useless what’s everyone else’s opinion on this?