Guild Wars 2

Hi all,
I was wondering if superior sigil of force works correctly on pistol offhand on engineer class.
can someone confirm that for me please ?

and do sigils on offhand weapons in general have different working/activation mechanism ?

thanks in advance

Sigil of Force will work on off-hand pistol to increase all Direct Damage you deal by 5% (Percentage modifiers don’t affect condition damage though).

Sigils on off-hand weapons work exactly the same as main hand ones the only difference is if a proc from the main hand and off-hand occurs at the same time the main hand one will take precedent.

I am then a little bit confused about the stat u see on hero panel.
If u use sigil of accuracy on main hand, u will see an increase of 5% in ur crit chance. But if u use sigil of accuracy on offhand, nothing changed. Not sure if it’s a display problem though.

does 5% accuracy and 5% damage stack together ? or only one sigil will be in use at once ?

thanks in advance

Accuracy and Force sigils do work together.

The lack of a change on the Hero panel is likely a display issue (Other things are not displayed there such as Rune bonuses)

As Taril was saying, it is indeed just a problem with the hero panel, it has been improved but a few things have been overlooked, i once stacked the power boost and corruption boost and precision boost and every time i saw the damage scale like it should (it went up, i’m too lazy to do any real math outside of school)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil

The bottom of that page should clear up a lot of questions. Basically, your offhand Sigils work just fine. Just never stack any two sigils with cooldowns together.

My personal recommendation for a Pistol Offhand is pretty much always Corruption though.

Does sigil of force increase condition damage? If it doesn’t I suppose the sigil of accuracy is the way to go (after you got your 25 stacks of condition or precision)

Goloith.6349:

Does sigil of force increase condition damage?

No, percentage damage increases (From Sigils, Runes or Traits) don’t affect Conditions.

Goloith.6349:

If it doesn’t I suppose the sigil of accuracy is the way to go (after you got your 25 stacks of condition or precision)

I guess that depends on your setup and other Sigil.

After getting the 25 stacks of whatever you have several choices to go -

Proc Sigils –
Fire
Air
Battle (If using a kit)
Strength
Earth
Geomancy (If using a kit)
Rage

Non-Proc Sigils -
Accuracy
Force (Even if it doesn’t affect conditions, all skills do at least some direct damage)
Smouldering (Only useful if it would provide an additional tick when combined with other sources)
Agony (Only useful if it would provide an additional tick when combined with other sources)

Then of course there is also the option of putting an Orb in your off-hand instead, which could provide some extra stats.