Sigil of fire stacks with sigil of air?
The last thing I read was that each one has a 30% chance to proc on every crit but once one procs both are on cooldown.
They changed the way sigils works from bw1 + 2 as having 2x sigils gave a distinct advantage to those who had 2 single handed weapons as opposed to classes that double handed ones.
If you have 2 sigils on your 2 single handed weapons, only 1 sigil will activate at a time. So, if you have a 30% to bleed sigil on crit and a 30% to freeze on crit, you will only either freeze OR bleed a target 30% of the time, both will NOT hit at the same time.
Most people who use earth sigils want to stack bleeds so using 2 different sigils on the 2 weapons you have in your hand sets actually defeats the purpose and actually kittens you as you’ll only be stacking half the bleeds you should.
Using 2 different type of sigils can also stop sigils from working, e.g having 1x lich sigil (health on weapon swap) and 1x hydromancy sigil (freeze on weapon swap), the lich sigil will never work at all. However if you have 2x lich sigil, or 2x hydromancy sigil, it works every time.
Also, if you have 2 different sigils that have cd’s, they share CD’s. E.g sigil of ice has a 10 second cd and hasd a 30% chance to freeze an enemy on crit, hydromancy has a 3 sec freeze on weapon swap and a 9 sec cd. With this, if your sigil of ice procs and you sewap weapons, your weapon swap sigil will not work for 10 seconds.
TLDR:
If you use 2 single handed weapons in one set, It’s actually not worth having 2 different sigils on these weapons as you do not get shared benefits. This is like this to not having advantage over 1 weapon users.
(edited by Hsulf.9370)
Sorry for the stupid question regarding this but how does it work if you have say a 5% dmg sigil in one hand and an on swap freeze in the other? Does the on swap still work? Do they both work?
Shameless bump..
Could anyone maybe explain to me how it works exactly?
Answer to your last question:
Both sigils will work.
As Hsulf explained the cooldown is shared between sigils that HAVE cooldown. +5 damage has no cooldown, it is a permanent effect so it will not be blocked,
By the way, GW2 Wiki is your best friend:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil