Guild Wars 2

When you dual-wield weapons, does it work to have 2 of the same sigil on both of them (like the 60% chance to bleed on crit one) so that you have a greater chance to get the effect (in this case bleed)? Or does only having 1 work and 2 is redundant? Does it only proc on the abilities that the weapon gives? If so would dual-dagger number 3 skill proc twice since it’s a shared weapon ability?

It’s rather redundant to have two on-crit Sigils because they share cooldowns. That is, you can never proc the same on-crit effect twice, you can only increase the odds.

The cases that you get with, for example, the 60% chance to bleed on crit, would be:

1. The mainhand sigil procs at 60%
2. The offhand sigil will only proc when the mainhand doesn’t, so it’s (1-0.6) * 0.6 = 0.4 * 0.6 = 0.24 = 24%
3. From these, the total average proc rate would go up to 84%

As for the Dagger skills, dual wielding is no different from a mainhand-offhand set in terms of procing: you will still only ever proc once.

Just out of curiosity, Olba, if in main hand someone had the 60% chance to bleed on crit and in the other hand had a Superior Sigil of accuracy which adds +5 to critical chance with no cooldown, how do those compare for procing the crit bleed?

It does not make a large difference due to the cooldown of the earth sigil. Superior sigil of earth is a 60% proc chance every 5 seconds.

Baladir.2736:

Just out of curiosity, Olba, if in main hand someone had the 60% chance to bleed on crit and in the other hand had a Superior Sigil of accuracy which adds +5 to critical chance with no cooldown, how do those compare for procing the crit bleed?

• 2x Superior Sigil of Earth > 1x Superior Sigil of Earth + 1x Sigil of Accuracy if you have at least 13% crit rate without the Sigil of Accuracy. This can be solved from the inequality 84x > 60*(x+5)
• 2x Superior Sigil of Earth > 1x Superior Sigil of Earth + 1x Superior Sigil of Perception if you have at least 30% crit rate without the Superior Sigil of Perception. This can be solved from the inequality 84x > 60*(x+12)