Guild Wars 2

Hi, I have a guardian as my main and I use sceptor/focus during tough bosses, especially when I pug. I put on sigil of energy on focus and I want to put another sigil on my sceptor. The sigil’s purpose is survivability. I took a look at them all and Im thinking the sigil of renewal might be good.

I’ve been reading about a “bug” when combining sigils with a internal cooldown?

Can anyone confirm this and if so, then what sigil would you suggest. Again, if having 2 internal cooldown sigils is a “kinda bug”.. then I would need another type.

It can’t be a sigil that stacks because its for a boss fight and really no purpose in stacking 1or 2 times 10 whatever.

As well it can’t be on “critical hit” cuase they also have a internal cooldown…

Not sure if “on kill” is usefull cause again its for a boss fight.

Not much choice I think then??

Really too bad if the internal cooldown is really a probably cuase most of the good “survivability” sigils I think are on weapon swap.. Any info would be great! thanks

Have a read of: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigils#Sigils_with_cooldowns

and then the table at the bottom which shows all the sigils and their relevant cooldowns.

The main issue is combining an on-crit sigil with an on-swap – since the crit can occur at any-time it can interfere with the swap effect so that it doesn’t proc.

Generally having 2 on-swap sigils on different sets are ok because their cooldowns will always expire by the time you are ready/able to swap weapons ( some professions have shorter swap timers which can cause additional trouble, but the guardian is the king of long CDs so it’s not a problem )

However, you said you have energy on your focus, and as that is an on-swap you can’t put another on-swap/on-crit on the main hand weapon (scepter) because the cooldowns will interfere – so you might want to consider a straight stats booster ( force/ accuracy etc ) or on-kill effect with restoration, speed or stamina for even more dodge capability

Thanks for the info.

The “on kill” probably isn’t worth it because its against bosses so really theres only one guy to kill..lol

Might have to go with the direct increase in a stat like damage or precision…etc..

thanks again

You can run – On Swap (9s cooldown) / On Crit (2s typically) / Permanent (None) / On Kill (None).

One of each of those and on each weapon set.