Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I was always under the impression that the 5% damage sigils don’t stack if you use them on both MH and OH.

However, the other day I created a thief for PvP (so I could learn to counter better) and noticed that the default build has D/D with 5% damage sigil on both hands.

Have I been wrong all this time or has no one told Anet that the sigils don’t stack?

I’m hoping I’m wrong!

Nope, they do not stack.

Does equipping a 5% damage and a 5% critical chance sigil provide both bonuses?

Med.6150:

Nope, they do not stack.

Yes they do.

-%-based increases stack
-proccs share an internal cooldown (so you can only benefit from 1 proc effect at a time)
-you may also only have 1 stacking Sigil at a time (which will remain active even after unequipping).

As far as I can tell equipping a 5% dmg bonus to the mh weapon will not effect the dmg of the offhand weapon and vise-versa.

I would recommend putting blood lust on your offhand and keeping 5% dmg on main hand.

And the thought just occurred to me, are you talking about the default build the game starts you with? In that case don’t give it any credit, the default builds for every class are pretty much terrible.

They don’t stack, but the sigil affects all of your abilities (MH/OH and utilities).

I would recommend neither using 5% damage or 5% crit chance, since both give only a miniscule damage bonus.

First 8 or so hits on a 100b, only difference is the sigils.
Base ESD: 7886.46
5% damage: 8178.55
5% crit chance: 8081.67

As you can see, there are much better sigils you can put on your weapons.

Sand Beagle.9867:

I would recommend neither using 5% damage or 5% crit chance, since both give only a miniscule damage bonus.

First 8 or so hits on a 100b, only difference is the sigils.
Base ESD: 7886.46
5% damage: 8178.55
5% crit chance: 8081.67

As you can see, there are much better sigils you can put on your weapons.

To be fair, thiefs are all about killing people with that mug/backstab combo. More damage is more damage. (and 5% non crit dmg is 10% crit dmg)