Guild Wars 2

Are there any plans to make weaponswap sigils work for engineers? Right now we are not able to use 6-7 sigils in pvp, and most of them are extremely good (100% critchance, aoe chill, 50% endurance regeneration, etc.)

Elementalists got them working on swapping attunments, so why don’t they work when we swap kits? The sigils themselves already have cooldowns so it wouldn’t matter that our kits don’t.

I’d really love an official statement on this issue.

As would I.

Seems to stem from the fact that engineers don’t ever weapon swap.

Are these the ones that give X when you swap to the weapon?

Nepocrates.3642:

Are these the ones that give X when you swap to the weapon?

Yeah. Engineers are the only class not allowed to use them. Everyone else can.

Sigils and stats from mainhand weapon applied to kits have probably been the most requested Engi feature since launch, I think. So you’re not alone.

Persoanlly, I think these should work. Not sure if it is a bug or intentional that they do not, but here is my 2 cents:

We do not get our bonuses from our weapons when switching to a kit. I.e.: when I equip my Grenade Kit I lose the stats from my Pistol/Shield. I regain those benefits when I remove the Grenade Kit. Thus, it stands to reason that if I can lose and regain those stats (as if I actually swapped weapons) I should also lose and regain any sigil effect (which we actually do in case of say a Sigil of Frailty).

That would be a bit overpowered for engineers, wouldn’t it? Weapon swaping has quite a bit of cooldown before you can swap again (warrior is faster, I think), but engineer kit swaping has only has a small (1 second?) cooldown.

Take this for example:
You gain 3 stacks of might for 20s when you swap to this weapon while in combat.

You could swap back and forth quickly to get tons of might, which other professions can’t do with the sigil.

Maybe if they gave it the “can only activate every 9 seconds” like the other sigils, it would be okay…

But then again, I guess we wouldn’t get the weapon swap effects when we swap TO a kit, so perhaps it wouldn’t be as overpowered as I first thought.

I agree fullheartedly.
This is something that we’re really missing out on.
Come’on ArenaNet!