Guild Wars 2

Hi Everyone,

What are some good sigils to put on longbow for PvP (specifically sPvP)?

I currently use Force/Energy…

air and fire …

I currently use air and fire on GS.

What do you use on your secondary weapon?

I use Air/Fire for LB and Air/Energy for GS or Sw/F, but mostly I play with GS

Oh okay. So you put energy on GS. I’ll try that out then.

Another question. Do you still use contemplation of purity? I notice a lot of guardians using test of faith in the slot contemplation would fill.

Test of Faith is better. You should use it over CoP. If you think you will need CoP (if you see condi necros in the other team or something) use JI, CoP and test of faith.

Also I find air/blood way better than /fire since fire got nerfed twice and blood is still the same.

Energy on the other set is definetly the best idea if you play sword since the only reason you would ever switch from longbow to sword/something is for defense or mobility. If you play GS the only reason to swap to it is to burst something that is cc’d or down so you might wanna try sigils for bigger burst like air/hydro or air/rage.

So ToF is necessary… hmm, okay!

Isn’t blood’s damage lower? And it’s not aoe. It does have the health benefit, but doesn’t it lack in burst?

I’m a big fan of sigil of rage, but the darn CD is so long. :-(

Do you run trap daze or f2 damage?

I remember reading here recently that Fire’s damage scales with damage multipliers and Blood’s doesn’t, which is part of why post-nerf Fire is still a popular choice in competitive play. Considering we’ve got potential multipliers from Unscathed Contender, Power of the Virtuous, and Pure of Sight in the meta build, I can understand the choice. It’s also nice for revealing the position of stealthed characters and gives better damage output in teamfights.

I don’t see it used often, but I’ll also point out that the Superior Sigil of Speed/Sigil of Agility has some interesting synergies with the Longbow. Even with the short duration, Quickness on swap can help you surprise opponents with a fast True Shot or make Hunter’s Ward a bit safer to cast. These abilities can be tough to land against opponents who know the timing for when to dodge, so modifying their cast times can shake things up and make them second-guess themselves. Besides the benefits of Quickness, gaining 5 seconds of Swiftness on swap can also help you kite opponents with the Longbow more easily (useful when your Traps are on cooldown).

I’ll try out sigil of speed over energy then too

Good post

mrauls.6519:

So ToF is necessary… hmm, okay!

Isn’t blood’s damage lower? And it’s not aoe. It does have the health benefit, but doesn’t it lack in burst?

I’m a big fan of sigil of rage, but the darn CD is so long. :-(

Do you run trap daze or f2 damage?

ToF is easily the best trap, it just has a number of things going for it. Short CD, unblockable, high damage, protection, cripple, and it’s instant cast. It can also be used in conjunction with SoJ and Binding Blades to pull enemies back into it for more damage.

The damage between Blood and Fire isn’t that much of a difference now after Fire has been nerfed. The healing aspect of Blood makes it a better choice than Fire now.

Rage is still a decent sigil to use on GS.

Definitely want to use Piercing Light over Soaring Devastation. Not only does it add the Daze, but it also reduces the CD on traps. Soaring Devastation is generally used if you just go straight medi.

I use sigil of intelligence to always get guaranteed true shot crits when it counts.