Guild Wars 2

I believe this has been brought up before; about Runes and Sigils. I can’t really find anything about what I was searching for.

Anyway I was upgrading my Greatsword with two sigils (Superior Sigil of Force and Superior Sigil of Fire) and forgot to put one of the sigils in the empty slot. Needless to say I destroyed said sigil that was worth 8 gold on the TP (this is the part where you all laugh).

But beside that, how come we have to choose an empty slot to upgrade a two slot weapon or armor when equipping the runes or sigils?

It’s entirely plausible you might want to replace the existing sigil. You know, if you got the weapon as a drop or something. Or you just plain want to leave a slot open because you’re saving up for a different sigil. Or any number of reasons.

It’s also why there’s a big confimation dialog that asks “Are you sure you want to replace sigil X with sigil Y?”

Just to make sure you have to confirm by hitting yes that you want to make a costly mistake, same as the confimation when salvaging rare+items, deleting rare+ items, selling rare+items, etc.

Obviously these “mistake proofing” measures can’t stop all user error, but they eliminate most of it.