Guild Wars 2

I know a lot of engineers out there still use pistol/shield to gain access to two sigils. In yesterday’s stream they announced that two-handed weapons will now have access to two sigil slots.

Does this revise your opinion of the rifle?

I will stay with the P/S. The sigil value never played into my decision in the first place. I am not one of those “100% optimal” types of players. I take what works foe me, and I find fun and useful. In this case, I have found the reflect, AoE knockback, the block, and the AoE stun all to be of the value, look, and play style I enjoy.

Yes. I will love to have more.burst damage pve wise

You will find me swapping a whole lot more into and out of pistol/shield and rifle.

I still think conditions generally do better that physical damage.

My latest debate has been between pistol shield and pistol/pistol. When running in a larger group, I just am not getting the benefit from the defense that I do using blowtorch and glue shot.

For sigils, I think the most exciting thing is that you can take 2 with a cool down. That is going to mix up what sigils I take no matter which weapon set!

I’ll still use P/S, probably. I use rifle every now and then but it’s always buggy for me.

I think P/S will remain a fave for condition specs, especially in PvP. Us rifle useres are excited though, also interested to see what combos splitting up the cool downs will open up.

I’ll still stick with P/S, because I favor the skills more.

ive always used rifle anyways
p/s is for southsun
its such a relief though, no longer do i have to choose between 2 sigils or a useful weapon

Would love to see more love towards condi specs and people trying to perform well with them. I’ve been playing zerker builds with my engineer since I reached 80, got tired/bored and thought I’d try some conditions, mainly due to WvW. But then again I would like to stick to a similar build for running fractas etc. I am currently on my way to a Dire ascended armor, undead runes, P/S with sigil of torment and corruption. I use maintenance oil which rocks with dire stats. On unforgiving fights for melee range I switch tool kit with elixir gun.
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Though many players I encounter find my choice bad at the least, I think that apart from the damage that I offer, there is endless potential to the utility.

I’ve always used Rifle regardless of sigil quantity but now I can actually go Fire sigil and Battle whilst having a crit based build with just a bit of power. So good days all round.

Yes. The shield has too much utility for me as a WvW roamer.

PvE is going to be interesting, though.

I’ve been running rifle in my condition build to great success for a while, so this change will simply enhance my build. I considered returning to pistols for a time, purely for the extra sigil, so this change is great news. Can’t wait.