Guild Wars 2

Looking for for help with top 3 sigils for PVE, Dungeon, WvW or all around

GreatSword
Scepter
Focus

Feel free to list your own preferred weapons and sigils

Greatsword I have two different GS’s on me for both WvW and for PVE/Dungeon. When I see a group battle I switch to Sigil of Fire as the very frequent AOE helps with handling the group. When I see it’s more a solo fight I switch to my GS that has Sigil of Lightning for the extra boosts of damage. I might get a third GS and put Sigil of Accuracy on it. My crit chance is around 45% so not sure I really need it but pondering.

I can’t comment on the other two weapons as these aren’t the ones I uses on a frequent enough basis.

For WvW I usually run
GS- Fire
Sword- Bloodlust and Fire after 25 stacks
Pistol,Focus,Torch- Rage

Torch is for surprise shatter bombs in melee, focus is for spread out groups, pistol is more of a 1v1 weapon for me.

PvE I just run GS/Sword+P with the same sigils.

It’s hard to recommend sigils without knowing your build. For instance, I run a condition build with high crit and use a sigil of earth on my staff for extra bleeds, which works quite well. However, in general the stacking sigils are good – just pick the stat that corresponds to your build. Likewise, a number of the weapon swap ones are good, such as sigil of battle or sigil of energy (just to name a couple). Also, as others have recommended, sigil of fire and sigil of lightning are good if you have a lot of crit and power, and sigil of generosity can be good to transfer conditions if you’re using a fast-attacking weapon. I would advise against any of the +5% to a stat sigils because as far as I know, their bonuses do not carry over to illusions.

In spvp i don’t play without sigil of energy on both of my weapons (if im not wielding a two handed wep then my offhand has sigil of energy all the time). In pve i like sigil of battle on slow * weapons such as staff and earth/fire/air on GS.

-For condition heavy situations (WvW and some dungeons), I recommend Sigil of Generosity if you have a good crit chance.
-Sigil of Energy is also nice for more dodging but if you’re using Mirror Images (or possibly Decoy) you might have an easy enough time getting clones for shatters anyway.
-Bloodlust is quite nice for PvE (and dungeons if you can avoid getting downed, either by stacking defensive stats or knowing how to stay alive) but in WvW it’s less useful since you need to kill a large amount of enemies/mobs before it becomes better than other options if you get downed.
-Fire is nice in WvW and to some extend in PvE for extra damage but the AoE means it’s not always good in dungeons since there are situations where you want to avoid pulling large groups.

For me, the sigil of energy on both weapon sets are indispensable since I’m running a pure glass cannon build plus it synergizes well with deceptive evasion and the shatter recharge trait.

I use sigil of bloodlust on my staff and
sigil of fire on scepter and sigil of Sigil of Hydromancy on my focus (pve only)

GS for dungeons:
superior sigil of generosity u.u

If I’m using deceptive evasion, sigil of stamina. Without using utilities I can crank out clones as soon as I shatter the last batch.

Usually:
Staff – Superior Fire
GS – Superior Air
Sword – Superior Corruption

Although, I do keep at least one of all Mesmer weapons. The others use (typically) Superior Generosity or Nullification. Most of my builds are low on condi-removal, but decent on crit %