Guild Wars 2

What condi set is best, trailblazer’s or viper’s? I do general PvE, dungeoneering, and a lot of Fractals. Gonna be running Dire until I get the insignias to swap.

Second question is On Swap Sigils, do they activate when I swap kits or just when I return to my weapon by putting kit away?

Sup! What is recommended for Condi engineers is to take Vipers stats, and Sinister stats in the shoulder and in one ring.

Yes, the Sigil swapping triggers when you go from a Weapon to a Kit, and Visceversa, it works as another weapon, so yes, swapping to a kit will trigger your Sigil.

Ivantreil.3092:

Sup! What is recommended for Condi engineers is to take Vipers stats, and Sinister stats in the shoulder and in one ring.

Yes, the Sigil swapping triggers when you go from a Weapon to a Kit, and Visceversa, it works as another weapon, so yes, swapping to a kit will trigger your Sigil.

So condi on swap sigils are great then? (EX. The stacks of bleed on swap)

Thanks for the tip on Armour, woulda never mixed in Sinister if I didn’t hear that

MrThompson.8347:

Ivantreil.3092:

Sup! What is recommended for Condi engineers is to take Vipers stats, and Sinister stats in the shoulder and in one ring.

Yes, the Sigil swapping triggers when you go from a Weapon to a Kit, and Visceversa, it works as another weapon, so yes, swapping to a kit will trigger your Sigil.

So condi on swap sigils are great then? (EX. The stacks of bleed on swap)

Thanks for the tip on Armour, woulda never mixed in Sinister if I didn’t hear that

It’s only better if you can stay at melee range the whole time, otherwise, if you find yourself being in range most of the time, bringing Sigil of Bursting will be better than the Sigil of Geomancy.

Ivantreil.3092:

MrThompson.8347:

Ivantreil.3092:

Sup! What is recommended for Condi engineers is to take Vipers stats, and Sinister stats in the shoulder and in one ring.

Yes, the Sigil swapping triggers when you go from a Weapon to a Kit, and Visceversa, it works as another weapon, so yes, swapping to a kit will trigger your Sigil.

So condi on swap sigils are great then? (EX. The stacks of bleed on swap)

Thanks for the tip on Armour, woulda never mixed in Sinister if I didn’t hear that

It’s only better if you can stay at melee range the whole time, otherwise, if you find yourself being in range most of the time, bringing Sigil of Bursting will be better than the Sigil of Geomancy.

Ooh it has a small range? kitten okay, thanks

What about sigil of earth that triggers on hit and causes bleed?

shion.2084:

What about sigil of earth that triggers on hit and causes bleed?

Sigil of Earth is a must, what you swap is Bursting or Geomancy depending of the situation, but you will always want Earth in 1 of your pistols.

Why not full viper’s? I have not done the math myself but I will eventually is it because you overstack the condition duration?

Ryze.2891:

Why not full viper’s? I have not done the math myself but I will eventually is it because you overstack the condition duration?

Exactly, going full viper will overstack the condi duration, and that missed condi duration is better spended in pushing more your condi damage, hence, the sinister stats in the shoulder and in one ring.

Ivantreil.3092:

Ryze.2891:

Why not full viper’s? I have not done the math myself but I will eventually is it because you overstack the condition duration?

Exactly, going full viper will overstack the condi duration, and that missed condi duration is better spended in pushing more your condi damage, hence, the sinister stats in the shoulder and in one ring.

has the source of your math taken the extra duration on poison and confusion and the slightly more intangible soft cc duration into consideration

out of curiosity

Ivantreil.3092:

Ryze.2891:

Why not full viper’s? I have not done the math myself but I will eventually is it because you overstack the condition duration?

Exactly, going full viper will overstack the condi duration, and that missed condi duration is better spended in pushing more your condi damage, hence, the sinister stats in the shoulder and in one ring.

Almost same result if you put a sinister back and one ring in case someone have already craft full viper’s or have a sinister backpiece