Guild Wars 2

let’s request for a new sPVP sigil in our PvP Build Menu shall we?

Sigil of Manipulation
60% Chance on Critical: Poison yourself (6 Seconds) and transform a boon on your foe into a condition. (Cooldown: 5 Seconds)

discuss on the %, cool down, basic functionality.

edit:
revision #2
Sigil of Manipulation
60% Chance on Critical: Poison yourself (10 Seconds) and transform a boon on your foe into a condition. (Cooldown: 8 Seconds)

cooldown increased by 3 seconds as Jelzouki.4128 clearly pointed out that the cooldown is too short. i also increased the self poison duration to 10 seconds.

edit 2:
revision #3
Sigil of Manipulation
60% Chance on Critical: Poison (10 Seconds) and burn (10 Seconds) yourself. Transform a boon on your foe into a condition. (Cooldown: 10 Seconds)

as Oprah.1347 commented that it is still way too powerful, i have made further adjustments.

edit 3:
Sigil of Manipulation
60% Chance on Critical: Poison yourself (6 Seconds) and transform a boon on your foe into a condition. (Cooldown: 9 Seconds)

Booms.2594 commented that this is balanced.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

let’s request for a new sPVP sigil in our PvP Build Menu shall we?

Sigil of Corruption
60% Chance on Critical: Poison yourself (6 Seconds) and transform a boon on your foe into a condition. (Cooldown: 5 Seconds)

discuss on the %, cool down, basic functionality.

This is a stupidly overpowered sigil. Take into account Corrupt Boon on the necromancer utility bar is a 40 sec cd. It can corrupt a maximum of 5 boons. So in 40 seconds a regular player can corrupt 8 boons with this sigil. Give this to necromancers and it will throw us in the wrong direction, necromancers dont need more damage, they need more sustain mechanics.

On the other hand you will have other professions running around with incredibly better sustain than necromancers while still maintaining good damage. This would throw pvp out of whack more than it would with perplexity runes. Sorry but I do not think this is a good idea.

@ Jelzouki.4128
ah, i see. good point!
okies, i have adjusted the numbers a bit.

how does it fare now?

Still too powerful even at 8s, you’re basically giving every class a very slow corrupt boon with no counter (you can’t stop criticals, you can’t even dodge the effects of this sigil because it’s on hit proc). Even though corrupt boon is hard to dodge – it can still be countered somehow via blinds or random dodging when you have a lot of boons up.

@ Oprah.1347
i see. what if this sigil burns yourself as well? i also adjusted the cooldown to 10 seconds. see revision #3

burning yourself for 10 seconds is like 6k dmg to yourself… no one would take that lmao..

@ Booms.2594
but what if the user is able to quickly remove the poison and burning?

This sigil would be a big buff for shout warriors. You can apply the conditions on yourself, and convert it right away.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

@ Booms.2594
but what if the user is able to quickly remove the poison and burning?

honestly the self inflicted poison for 6s, corrupt 1 boon every 9s is balanced.

@ Sunshine.5014
which revision are you talking about?
when traited, warrior warhorn skills 4 and 5 have recharge times of 12 seconds and 16 seconds respectively, they cannot spam convert boons that often.

@ Booms.2594
ah, thanks for the feedback, i have added your revision up there.

Might want to give it a different name. Pretty misleading. :P

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Corruption

Kneru.8014:

Might want to give it a different name. Pretty misleading. :P

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Corruption

aaaaaah thanks!
i changed the name of the topic title.

this just shows that i hardly ever uses other sigils. XD