Guild Wars 2

When your conditions meet the threshold (3), your next critical hit will cast Plague Signet on your target.

3 conditions on me or on my target?

Also, if I’m also equipping Plague Signet, if Plague Sending triggers, will Plague Signet start it’s cool down? Or does Plague Sending have it’s own separate cool down?

If it’s separate and independent but same cool down time, doesn’t that mean you can actually have 2 plague signets, one that’s “auto” and one that’s manual?

3 condis on you.
The trait has a seperate cd.

TimHellen.5903:

If it’s separate and independent but same cool down time, doesn’t that mean you can actually have 2 plague signets, one that’s “auto” and one that’s manual?

Yes.

The passive on the Signet helps you acquire conditions faster for Plague Sending but be warned there are PvE areas where the Signet’s passive can be overwhelming. Snagging yourself Burning stacks every few seconds sounds awesome but rarely works out well in long fights.

flow.6043:

3 condis on you.
The trait has a seperate cd.

TimHellen.5903:

If it’s separate and independent but same cool down time, doesn’t that mean you can actually have 2 plague signets, one that’s “auto” and one that’s manual?

Yes.

Thank you!

Anchoku.8142:

The passive on the Signet helps you acquire conditions faster for Plague Sending but be warned there are PvE areas where the Signet’s passive can be overwhelming. Snagging yourself Burning stacks every few seconds sounds awesome but rarely works out well in long fights.

It’s for PVP/WVW so it should be fine!

Also, you may think that the passive signet is casted against the enemy who received the crit strike, but its actually casted to the nearest target

Shroud counts as a weapon swap so you can use Intelligence Sigil (next 3 attacks are guaranteed critical hits) to manipulate the timing of your Plague Sending. This is a nice way to get around having low Precision.

Also, Signets Of Suffering will benefit Plague Sending. Which means you will get Might and corrupt 2 Boons when Plague Sending activates.

Krysard.1364:

Also, you may think that the passive signet is casted against the enemy who received the crit strike, but its actually casted to the nearest target

That’s not true.

Just to clarify…
Plague Sending can only trigger on targets that you actually hit.
There could only ever be some type of conflict when you use aoe skills and critically hit several targets at the same time. In this case the trait/sigil/rune/whatever-on-hit-or-crit-effect will proc on the target that is closest to the center of the aoe skill. So the center of a mark for example, or closest to you if the skill happens to have zero range like Unholy Feast.