Guild Wars 2

A lot of people feel that kits are already balanced to work without sigils, but many of the sigil effects (i.e. on weapon swap, kill streaks, magic find) are trickier to pull off on an Engineer. If you want to stack a kill streak bonus you have to remember to switch out of your kit before completing a kill and a lot of Engineer builds rely mostly on kits for damage. The simplest solution I’ve heard is for equipped weapon sigils to carry over to kits. Another more complicated solution that seem good to me but is perhaps less realistic would be to add a backpack weapon with unique skins (an added bonus that makes Engineer kits a bit less aesthetically exciting than weapons). It could be equipped by Engineers in a second weapon slot of sorts but would only take effect when using a kit.

I’m going to suggest a third simple solution: add a sigil slot to the back item. This sigil would be active only when a player switches out of a regular weapon and it wouldn’t need to be limited to just Engineers. The sigil could take effect while using Engineer kits, environmental weapons, Elementalist conjured weapon, Warrior banners etc. This way players that use “irregular” weapons frequently won’t lose out on kill streaks, magic find, or the on weapon swap triggers.

Does anyone else have other good ideas for extending sigils to Engineers or do you feel like it is okay as is?