Guild Wars 2

Price spiked like many things after the video. Plat doubloons that make it also spiked. Seems to of settled down again.

The new sigil giving a random boon on kill i think is quite good, i expect it to go up in price as people slowly start to realise it is good. My investment in it is already sold on this spike.

It can be crafted so the price shouldn’t sky rocket to much. This is why i jumped ship early. Yet i still expect it and plat doubloons to increase in price on Tuesday.

So who made money on this today like me?

I gambled on it and bought alot of them today for a bit under 1g each, I think it has a chance to become a very popular sigil esp for large scale wvw, boons are all very good and alot of people run boon duration also.

Even in zerg pve, i would maintain a full stack of boons with this sigil. After i get 25 stacks swap out to a weapon with this on.

Dungeons have enough trash mobs to keep lots of boons on, not that anyone needs help with trash.

For a mesmer, that can have a random boon every few seconds, and boon on interpt, and boon on kill, and run a boon share build, would be awesome.

So yes it has so much potential, its a wait and see. Might be a niche market that lots of people missed.

Here are some facts, which (I hope) may help diffuse the almost transparent attempt to inflate prices for personal gain by making this post.

Generally speaking, most people don’t like “random” boons, this is why engineer is the least played class, this is according to the majority of replies from a post I made in the engineer forum a while ago asking why people favour this class the least. Some people also stated in that post this is why they don’t like using a staff on their mesmer.
People prefer to control their abilities to maximize performance, not bet on an RNG.

Losing 3% damage or 5% crit (force/accuracy sigil) for a random boon, of which you may already have in combat from other players, or your own skills, is not likely going to be favourable for the majority player base.

The only chance I can see this sigil would be useful is if the duration from each boon is so long that you can stack up all boons from chain killing mobs and keep up an array of useful boons that you would otherwise not be able to get, but I highly doubt anet would develop such an OP sigil for obvious balance reasons.

So no, investing in these items will not likely yield you a profit unless people believe the statements made in here and buy them, pushing up the prices.

Just look at all the “on kill” sigils, food, runes etc that are for sale, they are the cheapest and least liked items in gw2, because people want the stats before combat, to apply in the combat, more than a bonus to your next kill in short concession.

Depends on one thing.. internal CD..

In a wvw situation (or a farm fest), you could have a stacking weapon, switch to this and if it has no Int.CD then you could get a massive stack of boons that last for a long time. Of course it depends on the boon duration from it.
Kill a 50 man zerg, and get 50 boons? definately something to consider imo. I definately keeping the 2 runes i got from the forge recently waiting to see what they do with them till it been tested out.

It’s random boon ON KILL, now it if it was on crit, with an ICD, then it might have a use. But in dungeons or WvW, you don’t really kill things fast enough to make it worthwhile over something like a sigil of force or fire. Now if it was a boon that lasted, say, 2 minutes then I’d probably try it out, but I still can’t see this beating other sigils given how easy it is to stack boons.

Without know how long the boons last, its very hard to judge this item’s effectiveness yet.

Whether is has an ICD and the boon durations are the important thing to know, for example if it had a 5 sec ICD and the boons only 2 sec duration, most will consider it near worthless even if they are rocking +100% boon duration.

The worth of one of these is otherwise is dependent on the class and build it is being used in; some classes have a hard time generating any boons at all, so an item source of them is extra valuable.

I had a buy order in for 8 when the initial new came out a few days ago. Only 2 where filled. I read what it was going to change to and sold those 2 immediately. I just don’t see the value in it. Maybe in just PvE some people will like it in WvW I don’t see why you would take this over any other stacker.

oZii.2864:

I had a buy order in for 8 when the initial new came out a few days ago. Only 2 where filled. I read what it was going to change to and sold those 2 immediately. I just don’t see the value in it. Maybe in just PvE some people will like it in WvW I don’t see why you would take this over any other stacker.

You don’t take it over another stack, you stack and then swap to it. I see a big need for it in ZvZ. But it all depends on what boons are in play and for how long do they last, and what if any icd is in play. For me it would be random boon on kill, where I might kill 20 to 30 people, or plus 100 cond damage.

All depends on the boons and durations.

Vashoom.8512:

Here are some facts, which (I hope) may help diffuse the almost transparent attempt to inflate prices for personal gain by making this post.

Generally speaking, most people don’t like “random” boons, this is why engineer is the least played class, this is according to the majority of replies from a post I made in the engineer forum a while ago asking why people favour this class the least. Some people also stated in that post this is why they don’t like using a staff on their mesmer.
People prefer to control their abilities to maximize performance, not bet on an RNG.

Losing 3% damage or 5% crit (force/accuracy sigil) for a random boon, of which you may already have in combat from other players, or your own skills, is not likely going to be favourable for the majority player base.

The only chance I can see this sigil would be useful is if the duration from each boon is so long that you can stack up all boons from chain killing mobs and keep up an array of useful boons that you would otherwise not be able to get, but I highly doubt anet would develop such an OP sigil for obvious balance reasons.

So no, investing in these items will not likely yield you a profit unless people believe the statements made in here and buy them, pushing up the prices.

Just look at all the “on kill” sigils, food, runes etc that are for sale, they are the cheapest and least liked items in gw2, because people want the stats before combat, to apply in the combat, more than a bonus to your next kill in short concession.

I agree, I have a level 80 mesmer, it has a signet that gives random boon. it is not that useful

You guys are largely forgetting guardians who will benefit largely regardless if the boon applied in AH builds

Prismatic Understanding boon share mesmers could benefit as well.

Or any build that gets a damage bonus per boon.

The price spice is due to speculators buying up some of them.
But like already mentioned, this sigil is craftable with 1 ori ingot, one glob and one platinum doubloon so the price will depend on the prices of the ingredients.

However, i got one for personal use already, i didnt buy much to sell later on.
I think it will be very good in zerg fights when you have a good guild group together.
You will have enough kills to rack up some boons and is at least for my build better than the sigil of force that gives 5% damage flat. I have Empowered traited, which gives me 2% damage for every boon.

50% chance for a 3-5 second boon. Pass.

Shifu.4321:

50% chance for a 3-5 second boon. Pass.

Yeah and it is only defensive boons too…. had some real promise. Oh well.

Rennoko.5731:

Shifu.4321:

50% chance for a 3-5 second boon. Pass.

Yeah and it is only defensive boons too…. had some real promise. Oh well.

Ouch! I don’t know what they where thinking with that one make it 10 seconds and it would be more appealing.

The Sigil and Rune designers are so hit and miss lately it can’t be the same people doing all the Runes/Sigils. Whoever is designing them now though is better than the launch people.

Hell Avenger.7021:

I agree, I have a level 80 mesmer, it has a signet that gives random boon. it is not that useful

The passive effect of that signet may not be that useful, but the active effect of it is one of the most useful in the game.

oZii.2864:

Rennoko.5731:

Shifu.4321:

50% chance for a 3-5 second boon. Pass.

Yeah and it is only defensive boons too…. had some real promise. Oh well.

Ouch! I don’t know what they where thinking with that one make it 10 seconds and it would be more appealing.

The Sigil and Rune designers are so hit and miss lately it can’t be the same people doing all the Runes/Sigils. Whoever is designing them now though is better than the launch people.

That would give me 20 seconds of Protection, Retaliation and Regeneration every 10th kill on average, when i run 100% boon Duration. Would be OP in zerg fights and we would have to give the rallybots the nickname boonbots.