Guild Wars 2

I haven’t personally used it on any of my builds.

It seems a lot of shatter/PU builds favor it.

Is it worth investing into, or are the equally decent alternatives?

Should I just continue using damage based runes if it’s not worth it?

Air/force/leeching variants/etc.

Thank you all in advance,

I always appreciate the solid advice from this community. As well as the lack of unnecessary flaming other players due to conflicting opinions.

-Dove

I personally don’t run generosity these days. It doesn’t really do anything to save you from an actual condi bomb like say.. lyssa runes can. While you could get lucky and transfer 12 burn stacks to your target, you probably won’t, and the transfer you do end up with will likely be a negligable condition. Additionally, the sigil can proc and go on cooldown even when you have no conditions on you, which can be problematic.

I’d recommend sticking with offensive crit/swap sigils. Even though fire/air were nerfed, I still find them to be the best sigil set on the GS just to help push the damage on the autoattacks up in between bursts.

For staff or sw/x as your offset I assume, you can run generosity, but usually some combination of blood/energy/leeching/air works better in my opinion.

This came up somewhere else on the forums yesterday. I dropped air/fire in favor of utility. List of sigils-

In no particular order

Energy
Speed
Generosity
Paralyzation
Doom
Hydro
Intelligence
Force
Accuracy
Impact
Geomancy
Bursting
Rage
Battle
Might

are all options that can be used on various classes and builds to good effect.

One of Fire/Air I like because it can be used to track stealthed targets, particularly for cleaving when downe

Yeah the best condi clear is to use inspiration or arcane thievery when traited imo
Although I think I would use these sigils when going a full condi-shatter spec in domination/dueling /illusion with a lot of crits chance to have some minor removal and survive the burnig of a guardian burst for example

It’s useful if your build has no condi cleanses because you’re bringing portal and not running inspiration.

However I would never get it for WvW, at over 100g for a sigil it’s just stupid. Fortunately its dirt cheap to use in PvP =P

It’s fun vs burn guards, also can get rid of the 7 hours of weakness that’s thrown around constantly.

Depends on your build and playstyle.

Sometimes it can be that little bit extra which can save you in a pinch – especially if you don’t need a different sigil apart from Energy.

Obviously I don’t think it’s worth the current gold cost for wvw – don’t bother until they reintroduce it hopefully this Wintersday.

PvP is free so just mess around and test it for a bit with different sigils – see what works best for your build/playstyle.

Curunen.8729:

Depends on your build and playstyle.

Sometimes it can be that little bit extra which can save you in a pinch – especially if you don’t need a different sigil apart from Energy.

Obviously I don’t think it’s worth the current gold cost for wvw – don’t bother until they reintroduce it hopefully this Wintersday.

PvP is free so just mess around and test it for a bit with different sigils – see what works best for your build/playstyle.

They didn’t reintroduce it last Wintersday, so what makes you think they will reintroduce it this Wintersday?

Aveneo.2068:

Curunen.8729:

Depends on your build and playstyle.

Sometimes it can be that little bit extra which can save you in a pinch – especially if you don’t need a different sigil apart from Energy.

Obviously I don’t think it’s worth the current gold cost for wvw – don’t bother until they reintroduce it hopefully this Wintersday.

PvP is free so just mess around and test it for a bit with different sigils – see what works best for your build/playstyle.

They didn’t reintroduce it last Wintersday, so what makes you think they will reintroduce it this Wintersday?

Because they didn’t last time…

That’s why I said “hopefully”.

I run air blood on gs and energy generosity on sword/staff. I dropped fire when the damage nerf came, blood gives you extra sustain and about the same damage I think and it can not be dodged, unlike fire proc.
Generosity I think is a good thing to have since it is good condi removal. It won’t save you from massive condi bombs but it will allow you to sustain a lot longer by removing the small condis which is what basically does the most condi damage to you as a mesmer since you probably won’t be tanking anything big. Its also good vs burn guard when they don’t put ccover condis on. Also I can’t count the amount of times it removed random poison from me which in turn allows you to heal earlier. I think its very much so worth it. Only alternative I’d go for is maybe if you put fire on gs and put blood on sw/t to which will synergize well with say blurred frenzy, you’ll do damage, heal a bit and avoid attacks. Also doom on staff/sword is good to negate enemy healing.