Guild Wars 2

Can please someone tell me why sigil of superior battle in sPvP has not really worked in anyway with changing attunements since a month ago?

I need it to know to create a build for new tournaments.

Thanks you all.

Eventine

Because you cannot use 2 on swap sigils. This has been prevalent the entire time. You will get one or the other, and then both will go on cooldown, then have to wait the max cooldown to get one or the other again and it will be random between the 2.

Use one sigil or the other, not both.

What? Are you telling me that if I have two different sigils on two different weapon they won’t work independently one from each other? So if I put the sigil of superior battle and sigil of rage (for example), the first won’t work until 45 seconds have passed?

Thanks anyway for help and answer.

Yes and no.

You cannont use 2 on swap or on crit sigils on 2 different 1 handed weapons. You can use 1 on swap sigil and one sigil of another type (save on crit). This is due to them sharing internal cooldowns, when one goes on cooldown, so does the other. This applies to on crit sigils as well.

You can however do the following (replace Sigil of Battle with any on swap/on crit sigil):
1 Sigil of Battle & 1 Sigil of Force/Accuracy/Night

1 Sigil of Battle & 1 Sigil of Bloodlust/Corruption/Life/Luck/Perception

1 Sigil of Battle & 1 Sigil of Restoration/Speed/Stamina

1 Sigil of Battle & 1 Sigil of Agony/Chilling/Debility/Hobbling/Paralyzation/Peril/Smoldering/Venom

1 Sigil of Battle & 1 Sigil of Conjuration/Sanctuary/Demon Summoning

1 Sigil of Battle & 1 Sigil of Centaur Slaying/Destroyer Slayer/Demon Slaying/Elemental Slaying/Dreams/Ghost Slaying/Grawl Slaying/Icebrood Slaying/Impact/Justice/Karka Slaying/Ogre Slaying/Seeking/Serpent Slaying/Smothering/Sorrow/Undead Slaying/Wrath

Hmm so what do you guys think would be better for pve ele to go along with sigil of battle?
Currently I’m using battle and bloodlust, but I’m not sure what to switch to when bloodlust is charged. I’m thinking either force or stamina (for more EA rolls). Restoration could possibly fit in there as well, but the healing seems kind of low.

Beware that he says stamina, not energy. Energy shares the cooldown as well.

if one of the two sigils is on cooldown neither will work.

I use battle and force in PvE.

Raif.9507:

Because you cannot use 2 on swap sigils. This has been prevalent the entire time. You will get one or the other, and then both will go on cooldown, then have to wait the max cooldown to get one or the other again and it will be random between the 2.

Use one sigil or the other, not both.

They are correct, I tried a Sigil of Battle and a Sigil of Hydromancy on my S/D. I would get one or the other every 9 seconds but not both. It was random which one I would get.

I switched to battle/bloodlust instead. One of the on crit depending on your build would be a good idea also like fire. Of course in PvP or WvW the on crit ‘may’ be better than on kill. It really depends on how long you survive IMO.

Equality.9023:

Raif.9507:

Because you cannot use 2 on swap sigils. This has been prevalent the entire time. You will get one or the other, and then both will go on cooldown, then have to wait the max cooldown to get one or the other again and it will be random between the 2.

Use one sigil or the other, not both.

They are correct, I tried a Sigil of Battle and a Sigil of Hydromancy on my S/D. I would get one or the other every 9 seconds but not both. It was random which one I would get.

I switched to battle/bloodlust instead. One of the on crit depending on you build would be a good idea also like fire. Of course in PvP or WvW the on crit ‘may’ be better than on kill. It really depends on how long you survive IMO.

Can’t use an on swap and an on crit sigil together either. They also share the same internal cooldown.

Raif.9507:

Equality.9023:

Raif.9507:

Because you cannot use 2 on swap sigils. This has been prevalent the entire time. You will get one or the other, and then both will go on cooldown, then have to wait the max cooldown to get one or the other again and it will be random between the 2.

Use one sigil or the other, not both.

They are correct, I tried a Sigil of Battle and a Sigil of Hydromancy on my S/D. I would get one or the other every 9 seconds but not both. It was random which one I would get.

I switched to battle/bloodlust instead. One of the on crit depending on you build would be a good idea also like fire. Of course in PvP or WvW the on crit ‘may’ be better than on kill. It really depends on how long you survive IMO.

Can’t use an on swap and an on crit sigil together either. They also share the same internal cooldown.

Didn’t know that. Hmmm I tried Fire and it did process even while keeping 25 stacks of might with battle.

Luck I guess but I switched to bloodlust anyway.

Both the Fire and the Battle sigil have the same cooldown so they seem to work together as you do get might and the fire blast every so often, however they do switch off. Also you might have been might stacking through fire fields/had help to get those stacks.

It took me a while to notice that they didn’t work properly together, as I was getting might and the fire blast every so often.

I really need advise on Superior Sigil. My char is staff ele focused on precision/crit build, I’m currently using Superior Air Sigil, and I’m not quite happy with it. Some
ppl say that Superior Fire Sigil is the best way to go, and I want to know why, before spending ~5g on it. I know about AoE, but does it have the same damage as Air one does?

I generally wanna go with Sigils triggering on critical, because of my high %. I won’t
using stacking sigils, because my build is pretty fragile, and I’m getting downed often,
but mostly getting away alive, still will drop all stacks. Switching weapons is obviously
also isn’t an option.

P.S. Mainly PvE/WvW, not PvP .

Tips?

Yes. Sigil of Battle or Sigil (more might stacks yay!) of Energy for more dodging. You can run it on a staff (I run Sigil of Battle) and it works.

You can use an on swap weapon sigil due to attunement swapping counts as a weapon swap. We make the most use out of any on swap sigil as we should be constantly swapping attunements and normally even swap before the cool down on that sigil is up.

You don’t need to actually switch your weapon.