Guild Wars 2

hey all, just have a question on this sigil, is it actually working? or am I just not seeing it activate? Im currently playing a heavy interrupt remorseless druid spec and i decided “hey i got alot of dazes and interrupts and this sigil has life steal on interrupt so why not use it on my weapons?”. So off i went into tangled depths and farmed for an hour or two and got enough crystals in order to buy the Sigils of draining and so far I can’t tell if they are proccing correctly or not….one main issue thats making me ask this question here is I don’t think it is showing up in the combat log at all but on the wiki it states that it steals around 1100 health per interrupt.

Can anyone confirm this cause I don’t see it going off, and im about to swap them out for something I can see but I wanted to ask here before I do it.

Seems like a bug, go report it in the bug section.

It does not show in the log. You have to watch the on screen flashes and that can be very hard to do if you have other damage inflicted.

It tricky to test as well as you need an interrupt so golems make it hard. You do it in game and you have to be able to read damage sperate from the interrupt itself.

My own tests show white damage around close to what the wiki says though oddly sometimes it was less. Part of the issue here is white damage pops up with the white damage of the weapon itself so hard to read them.

The heal I am not sure on . Green heal does not show on screen yet your health bar goes up on an interrupt.

Ok ill go test it more and look for the white numbers i was originally looking for the greens from healing but i guess thats still screwey…

wow, i missed this post. for some reason, searching “Superior Sigil of Draining” using the above tool won’t bring you to this post.

i noticed that it is not working still (and the post above is 4 months ago). i have been testing and checking my damage and healing log but, sadly, nothing. i already send a bug report before i saw this post. hope it gets fixed soon – or i just wasted my time on TD trying to get that sigil for nothing.

With the recent (June 14, 2016) update and making this sigil available in WvW, is it already working or is it due to be nerf or removed – given the silence (none reply) from this query?

Perhaps, if you posted your query in the Bugs sub-forum, the Devs responsible may see your concerns.

Good luck.

did you record it and review the recorded video frame by frame to look for the damage? that’s what i would have done to verify it.

anyways, do you have to unlock it with ley line crystals before you can purchase it from the wvw vendor?

darkaheart.4265:

did you record it and review the recorded video frame by frame to look for the damage? that’s what i would have done to verify it.

I used the combat log to check and verify.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Perhaps, if you posted your query in the Bugs sub-forum, the Devs responsible may see your concerns.

Good luck.

Already a couple of threads there …

Compass.9621:

darkaheart.4265:

did you record it and review the recorded video frame by frame to look for the damage? that’s what i would have done to verify it.

I used the combat log to check and verify.

Unfortunately the combat log has always been unreliable for leech/life steal so that is not a very meaningful thing to do.

Hard to say about the damage, but the heal definitely works.
I personally seen my hp go up by a lot after interrupting enemies.

It is much harder to notice if the damage from it is there without testing it with another player though.

Well it should be very easy to test with a guild arena. Just make note of the victim’s HP before the interrupt and after and compare the damage listed in the attacker’s combat log. With traits disabled and armor removed to avoid any accidental effects from runes of course.