Which healing Sigil is the better one?

Which healing Sigil is the better one?

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Posted by: ExiMaster.4820

ExiMaster.4820

I have built a very good healing support elementalist. But as for my main weapon I don’t know if I should use Superior Sigil of Life or Superior Sigil of Water.

Superior Sigil of Water has a 10 Second cooldown to heal allies for who knows how much health since the game doesn’t tell us and I have precision built (1,344) so I do get frequent critical hits.

So the main question is, either kill 25 things to gain 250 healing power but it ends on down and other things like logging out or waypointing to a different map area.

Or

Have a single healing sigil that is always at full power and requires no charge to heal but has a 10 second cooldown to heal for an unknown amount and requires a 30% chance on a crit to activate.

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Posted by: Maladon.5760

Maladon.5760

Go to Heart of the Mists and test it

Malzarius – Guardian
Malzerius – Thief
Dark Covenant (SBI)

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Posted by: IndigoSundown.5419

IndigoSundown.5419

Go to Heart of the Mists and test it

And once you’ve learned what the sigil of water does, determine just how much 250 Healing Power adds to your heals. I can tell you that on my Necro I changed out several pieces of cleric’s gear, lowering HP by more than 250. On the regeneration applied (trait, focus 4, staff 2) I barely noticed a difference.

Finally, look at how often you can apply heals. Some of them have more than 10 second CD’s.

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Posted by: ExiMaster.4820

ExiMaster.4820

Right now I am having an issue on how to tell when the Superior Sigil of Water activates. There really is not a clear sign of what it does or how I can tell how much HP its giving me when I have full hp practicing on the PvP bots.

I wish they would be more clear on this stuff.

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Posted by: Lokki.1092

Lokki.1092

Sigil of water heals for 380+(0.1*healing power) and is based on the percentage of a percentage. If you have 50% chance to crit for example you would then have a 30% chance of procing that heal

Roughly a 15% chance at the heal going off per offensive skill used. for 380+(0.1*healing power)
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Sigil of life is a lot harder. Lets assume you have no build up time and always have 25 stacks so 250 healing it would add

62 healing on every geyser
31 healing per second on every regen
250 healing on water trident
80 healing on cone of cold
250 healing on cleansing wave (dodge roll)

Remember though you will not always have 250 stacks, and you can lose them by going down. Hope that helps you decide.
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Generally speaking healing power/healing sigils aren’t good enough to truly invest in however if you are set on this, I would suggest looking at sigil of water only if your crit is over 40%. The sigil of life will not boost any one skill to the levels that the sigil of water will passively heal you if your crit is that high (because of skill cooldowns). With an elementalist and using Arcane Fury you should be at just about permanent +20% crit chance. If you have built yourself well, 50% shouldn’t be that far off. If however you are looking at 20% or lower then you are looking at a 6% or lower chance for the heal proc to go off. It simply isn’t worth it, and at that point I would suggest using sigil of life.

(edited by Lokki.1092)

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Posted by: ExiMaster.4820

ExiMaster.4820

I think ill just stay with the Superior Sigil of Life then. For what the Superior Sigil of Water gives me on heal, its disgustingly cheap and barely helpful. I rarely go down except on legendaries who insta-down players, but that can’t really be helped.

Thanks for the stats Lokki, but I wouldn’t be asking this question if arena net had it so when you logged out or waypointed long distances all your stacks would get reset.

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Posted by: Seras.5702

Seras.5702

Both. Build the 25 stacks, then swap out weapons.

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