Guild Wars 2

too little place for sigils to use stacking

energy, battle, aoe on crit(torment and fire blast), condi cleanese

I prefer Sigill of Battle, because it doe 210 statbonus on condition dmg and on power, and since an ingeneer has no weapon or kit that is not applying any conditions or burst dmg, both are used, so you get at least a " total bonus or 420 " on both stats together, instead of 250 on one.

And I also feel that Battle is much more reliable if you`re surprised by an opponent, or get downed in a team or zerg fight. ( and this nasty trash mob killing before the fight is falling apart ^^ )

I run two armor sets for Static Discharge, Hoelbrak Knight’s and Scholar Berserker’s.

If you were planning on running Hoelbrak or Strength runes, you would get a better return with Battle, offering 315 points of Power and 315 points of Condition Damage; you’d have a baseline of 9 Might stacks from the sigil alone.

If you decide on Scholar I wouldn’t bother with a stacking sigil either since sooner or later you’ll be getting run over by zergs or chased down by a 5-man of classes that have superior mobility. Instead of Battle/Air I opt for Air/Fire with the full glass setup to finish it quicker and leave the scene.

My current Rifle setup is Fire/Force, but I’ve considered replacing the latter with Intelligence, since my opener tends to either be a ‘sniping’ fireball from FT or Prybar from Toolkit.

How good is Air in a damage situation? I do see nice bursts coming from Fire (even when its only a Major sigil), but the guaranteed crits from Intelligence seems tempting instead (at least for PvE).

Sungak Alkandenes.1369:

My current Rifle setup is Fire/Force, but I’ve considered replacing the latter with Intelligence, since my opener tends to either be a ‘sniping’ fireball from FT or Prybar from Toolkit.

How good is Air in a damage situation? I do see nice bursts coming from Fire (even when its only a Major sigil), but the guaranteed crits from Intelligence seems tempting instead (at least for PvE).

The Superior Sigil of Air will hit slightly harder than your Superior Sigil of Fire because it has a higher damage coefficient, however, it is single target as opposed to Fire’s AoE.

As for Intel, Static Discharge doesn’t revolve around one hard hitting attack, but instead several attacks in quick succession. Having a Fire and Air Sigil adds in two more hits to your rotation.

However, if this is for PvE I’d go for something else entirely; Static Discharge does great burst damage, but lacks sustained damage. The utility slots generally used in SD are also not very damage orientated; Utility Goggles/Rifle Turret/Toolkit.

That’s just my opinion, play how ya wanna.