Guild Wars 2

So, besides the ever problematic issues of finding which sigils work best to my playstyle, there is usually the other issues of ‘will these stack?’ comes to mind.

I already know sigils such as Bloodlust won’t stack with others that have the “each kill grants 1 stack of 5/7/10 <stat> per kill” and similar stuff. But other sigils aren’t exactly as easily distinguishable to know if they would or wouldn’t work in set combos. Given that many can be expensive, knowing such is usually nice to know before its wasted.

For instance, I have a Sigil of Purity and a Sigil Nullification. I know they work on separate weapon sets, but if I had the two sigils in the same set, would they stack? Given they work on two different targets but have the same activation begs the question.
Those kinds of sigils and others such as the “% chance to cause effect” are also hard to determine if they stack. (Not including the annoying “how much damage/heal do they even do?” issues.)

On a side note, I wouldn’t mind also knowing what Sigils to completely avoid when purchasing/obtaining. I have pretty much figured those such as “+10% Damage Versus Flame Legion” are ones to drop, but are there other less obvious ones?

Any other tips and tricks to Sigils would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Generally everything works together but doesn’t stack to raise caps on anything. So the let’s say 10 pow/kill stacks to only 25, but if you use two sigils it will accumulate twice as fast.

This is because 25 is the cond/boon stacklimit from a gamedesign POV. Although I do not know the 100% certain answer, I think you can safely assume that your sigils will work together. Especially cause in your example 1 is targeted at you and one at the mob. It might even be weaponlinked.

Currently the answer is NO for that specific combination. They would not stack. This is because they both have a 10s cooldown and currently sigils that have a CD share the same timer. Meaning as soon one procs neither can proc again for the next 10s.

What is worse with Purity is that it can proc and go on cooldown even when it would not have provided any benefit.

I generally avoid having more than 1 sigil that has a CD across all equipped weapons because I don’t want to have to think about the interaction between them.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil

Khisanth.2948:

Currently the answer is NO for that specific combination. They would not stack. This is because they both have a 10s cooldown and currently sigils that have a CD share the same timer. Meaning as soon one procs neither can proc again for the next 10s.

What is worse with Purity is that it can proc and go on cooldown even when it would not have provided any benefit.

I generally avoid having more than 1 sigil that has a CD across all equipped weapons because I don’t want to have to think about the interaction between them.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil

That’s rather unfortunate. This is something I will have to take into consideration when taking a look at Sigils. Doesn’t harm my current build too much but it is a notable problem for sure. Will keep it in mind for sure.

Thanks for the very useful link as well! <3