Guild Wars 2

Hey,

I was wondering if there is a difference in damage between the Superior Sigil of Fire’s flameblast and the Major Sigil of Fire’s verison of the same effect. Or is it just a difference in the chance of the flameblast happening as indicated by the tool tip?

Also, does the flameblast damage scale with power or with condition damage? My own tests indicated that it scaled with power since I changed my traits to Domination giving me an extra 300 power and this seemed to have an effect on the flameblast damage.
Shouldn’t it scale with condition damage instead since it is a burning effect?

Thanks for reading.

It scales with Power, and is the same for all Sigils of Fire, just better ones have a better chance to proc.

The blast is a form of direct damage and does not actually applies any burning condition on the target so it would not scale with condition damage.

Thanks a lot guys. I’m really not sure now if spending 4+ gold on the 30% version is that good an investment. The 20% version is going for a couple silver.

Yeah, it’s really a min/max issue. If you have the gold to spare, it’s probably worth it to go with the 30% rate, but it’s not going to be gamebreaking running with the major sigil.

if you have pretty good % crit chance (say 50%), with the cooldown, the difference between 30% and 20% is negligible.
let’s say 1 attack per second and both of them just proc’ed.
5s until either can proc again.
after that, the 30% will proc in 3.33s on average. the 20% will proc in 5s on average.
adding the 5s cooldown: superior will proc every 8.33s, while major will proc every 10s.

Thanks for that Mystic. So, talking effective dps, it would matter more, the longer a fight’s duration.

I just got an exotic with the superior sigil in it so I think I’ll put that on my GS and keep the major sigil on my sword and see if it makes any sort of difference in practical terms.