Guild Wars 2

Was playing around with conjures for a bit in sPvP, and actually stumbled across a build that I can stomach! However, as I was smashing faces with my Lightning Hammer I came across two small issues that made the weapon feel playable, but clunky.

1. Lightning Hammer and Earth Shield cast times are 3/4s, whereas Flame Axe and Frost Bow are 1/4s. Is this intended?
2. The 4 and 5 skills on Lightning Hammer require the caster to stand still. This is mildly obnoxious as I don’t enjoy standing still in the fray. Could be acceptable for the 5th skill, but I think the 4th skill at least needs to be castable while moving.

Other than that, here’s the build and a short description of how I play it if you’re interested.

videos!
interesting combination of arcane and conjure.
I was always trying to not spec arcane with the conjure.
hammer does have pretty impressive damage.
The bump to crit chance is not bad either. going full power and crit i hit a 75% crit chance with hammer.

I can’t do videos…. but I’ve been playing around with the build again today and having a blast. Switched to Flame Axe because it’s much… smoother. As far as speccing into arcane it was just something I wanted to try, and turns out it helps conjure builds a bunch (in my opinion of course). The reasoning behind this is that you still have access to attunement swapping while wielding a conjure and Evasive arcana still triggers.

Fiery Great Sword → stand still whilst casting, is this an elite? I thought so, apparently not a awesome as the other conjures.

Wow! I came up with the same trait set-up for a hammer-focused build earlier today. I would think this build, combined with the staff, would be a great way to overcome the range limitation attributable to being unable to swap weapons in combat.

Question: I understand that weapon swap sigils work on attunement change. If I equip a conjured weapon, then would a weapon swap sigil (e.g., sigil of battle) still proc if I change attunments (i.e., while the conjured weapon is equipped)?

Moonrabbit.1543:

Wow! I came up with the same trait set-up for a hammer-focused build earlier today. I would think this build, combined with the staff, would be a great way to overcome the range limitation attributable to being unable to swap weapons in combat.

Question: I understand that weapon swap sigils work on attunement change. If I equip a conjured weapon, then would a weapon swap sigil (e.g., sigil of battle) still proc if I change attunments (i.e., while the conjured weapon is equipped)?

as far as i know this is changing. some sigils work or keep their effects some dont but its changing or changed.
search forum.
there is a list here somewhere that explains it pretty well as it was. what it is now or is going to be… something else altogether.

as one of my bosses said to me… Didnt record it then it didnt happen.

@Crunchy

I hope so. I am aware that sigils now apply to engineer kits. Also, from what I have read, stacks formed by a stacking sigil prior (e.g., bloodlust) to equipping a conjured weapon are maintained. However, I could not find a post, dev or otherwise, indicating that sigils work (or will work) while a conjured weapon is equipped. I think this, and allowing elementalists to shift back and forth between the conjured weapon and existing weapon set (e.g., staff, D/D), would go a long way to solving players’ reticence toward using conjures.

Moonrabbit.1543:

@Crunchy

I hope so. I am aware that sigils now apply to engineer kits. Also, from what I have read, stacks formed by a stacking sigil prior (e.g., bloodlust) to equipping a conjured weapon are maintained. However, I could not find a post, dev or otherwise, indicating that sigils work (or will work) while a conjured weapon is equipped. I think this, and allowing elementalists to shift back and forth between the conjured weapon and existing weapon set (e.g., staff, D/D), would go a long way to solving players’ reticence toward using conjures.

I main a conjure ele, sigils still work.