Guild Wars 2

Just wondering what kind of sigils go well for DPS, particularly on the Greatsword. I was testing a superior sigil of strength in WvW, not sure it woks well with the GS. As it doens’t stack might nearly as fast I need it to, even with full beserker’s gear. Kind of regretting the 3 gold I spent on it, but also no wanting to switch it out until I get some feedback since I did drop a decent amount on it.

Depends on how you’re using it, personally I have bloodlust on it, as my main weapon set is sword-pistol. Otherwise, I’m a huge fan of rage (quickness). It does have a long cooldown, but when it procs, it cuts through everything like a knife through butter.

I’ll give that one a try, thank you very much.

Fire

It adds a ridiculous amount of DPS especially in packs of people.

If WvW is your thing, I’m not sure how applicable this is, but for PvE I’m a huge fan of Bloodlust and Energy. Bloodlust of course gets your DPS up there over time, but Energy is a tremendous help for Deceptive Evasion (which you probably should be traiting regardless of build). Spawning clones – which will then cause bleeds on crits, raising your DPS – has never been easier.

Personally I use Air or Fire, I prefer to put stacking sigils like Bloodlust or Luck on my off-hand weapons (pistol for example) so that I can reserve my main-hand (or 2H) weapons for pure damage.

I shatter a lot. As in I’m usually waiting for cool down. For me, sigil of stamina helps the most for damage – 2 clones on demand every time you drop a target gives more damage than the direct damage procs that I played with.

This is an interesting question, I always wanted to know which would be better for Geatsword Mesmer. I’m thinking it’s either Rage or Air. I’m not sure though… if anyone knows for sure, I would LOVE to know!

I tried air, but had better results on a sword. So I too would go for lust or rage.

Was Rage mathematically superior, or did it just seem better to you?

The reason I went with Superior Sigil of Strength was to couple its effects with the #2 skill to try to get might stacks up higher, unfortunately it doesn’t stack as quickly as I would like it to.

What about earth in an SI build with Rampagers?

Hartayke.7349:

What about earth in an SI build with Rampagers?

On a greatsword? Half-effective; greatswords on mesmers doesn’t boast a high crit chance. I’m still fine tuning my set up but at this point I know that on my gs I’m going to barely be over 50%. To me that’s not enough to warrant it’s use.
Regular sword? Trash; I actually did run with this for awhile. The bleed didn’t last too long and I only ever got it to apply once on the 2nd skill.