Guild Wars 2

The new sigil of intelligence received a buff, but the a duration was added to it.
Before as long as you swap to the weapon, the next hit will crit.

The new version gives 3 charges but on a 9s duration. This makes the sigil extremely clunky and unsatisfying to use.

Remove the 9s time limit for use?

Asahi.1487:

The new sigil of intelligence received a buff, but the a duration was added to it.
Before as long as you swap to the weapon, the next hit will crit.

The new version gives 3 charges but on a 9s duration. This makes the sigil extremely clunky and unsatisfying to use.

Remove the 9s time limit for use?

I believe that everyone but Warriors and Eles has a 10 seconds swap and I believe it was always 9s CD (like every other on swap sigil), they just never told us.. Eles would have a 100% crit all the time if it would proc every time they changes attunements. warriors with fast hands could get about 40% crit without any points in precision

I think this was done quite on purpose. Not only to prevent swapping back in preparation, but also to make sure the buff is actually used within a timely manner, making it somewhat more reliable on the receiving end.

I think what he means is that after it triggers, you only have 9 seconds to use those 3 crits or they’ll be gone.

The thing is, people used to ‘pre-load’ the sigil by going into combat against a critter or something. With just 1 critical hit that’s fine, but with 3 it would mean they’d get 6 garatueed criticals in a row. And that’s a little much.

I don’t think on-swap sigil work out-of-combat. I thought 9s is just the cool down of sigil before it can trigger again, its not the duration in which you have to use up that 3 crit strike. Can someone confirm?

You have to use the 3 crits in the 9s, it’ll go away afterwards. I’ve been using the sigil the entire day already. It doesn’t feel clunky at all for me. I mostly use up the crits before the battle is over. Also, blinds/blocks/dodges uses up crit charges.