Guild Wars 2

So power builds sigils are a bad things (burst sigils are gone and passive power sigils are gone).

Anet dislike ‘’sigils that passively boosted damage’’ while they truly love those passive +25% condition duration sigils amright?

Phantom.5389:

So power builds sigils are a bad things (burst sigils are gone and passive power sigils are gone).

Anet dislike ‘’sigils that passively boosted damage’’ while they truly love those passive +25% condition duration sigils amright?

You realize how bad condi duration sigils are compared to application sigils right? And do you realize that they removed every single application sigil from the game?

I tested my necro, even with the 25% agony sigil my condi stacks are still lower than what I had before with hydromancy and earth, and it takes twice as long to ramp up my condis.

Also the bleed duration sigil, the burning duration sigil, the poison duration sigil, the weakness duration sigil, and the vulnerability duration sigil existed before this patch. They ain’t new.

There’s still

• Doom
• Exposure
• Stagnation

Substantially less condi burst than before from sigils, but its still possible to apply 2 cover conditions trivially via sigils if you wanted to.

OriOri.8724:

There’s still

• Doom
• Exposure
• Stagnation

Substantially less condi burst than before from sigils, but its still possible to apply 2 cover conditions trivially via sigils if you wanted to.

The damage is still demonstratively lower, and those sigils are worse options than what existed prepatch. Also cripple is useless as a cover condi since every single condi build already applies cripple. Same for vuln. Doom is pointless as a cover for necros, thieves, engi, and ranger due to those classes already having poison access.

Moreover weapon swap cover condis are only really good on condi warrior. While other condi builds can use them, it requires them to go out of their way to use the sigils to effect.

At least you have option, as power there is hardly a choice.

sure there is a choice… there is no tanky amulets in spvp other then paladins. you dont think power was over the top for past year? not sure what game you playing.

LinhZeri.6412:

sure there is a choice… there is no tanky amulets in spvp other then paladins. you dont think power was over the top for past year? not sure what game you playing.

i thought this thread was about sigils?

It is still lower, but like Cynz said, at least you still have the option if you want to use it. Based off of the discussion when these changes were being proposed, there are a good amount of people who wouldn’t have actually read the list of sigils in PvP, and wouldn’t have known that there were still ones that allowed you to apply cover conditions via weapon swap.