Guild Wars 2

There are some great on swap sigils out there. Sadly, you only get to use them every 18 seconds for most professions. Professions that only have one weapon set or Revenants can trigger their on swap sigils more frequently than other professions.

My suggestion is to turn on swap sigils to time interval sigils. For example, Sigil of Leeching would grant an effect every 9 seconds that allows you to steal life from a foe. Like it does now, if your attack misses, is blocked, etc., then you lose the effect.

What do you guys think?

The ‘on swap’ still has an internal cooldown, so even if an Elementalist flipped through all their attunements as fast as possible it would still restrict the triggering. Those with two weapon sets can have two different ‘on swap’ effects; those with one weapon set only get one effect. I’d say it evens out well enough.

Since they all have the same 9s CD having fewer weapons doesn’t provide any sort of benefit. On the other hand some builds do benefit from it more than others.

They are fairly powerful already, even with the current limitations.

You can put the same sigil into both weapon sets and activate it every 9 seconds on each swap if you’d like (thus functioning just like Engi and Ele’s one-weapon sigil swaps). Offhand, I think the only classes that can take advantage of different swap sigils every 9s are Warrior and Necromancer (with fast hands and shroud, respectively)?

The suggested change will break existing use of certain sigils. For example to guarantee a crit with a particular skill using Sigil of Intelligence. Having sigil of energy being wasted while when you don’t need it would also be bad.