Guild Wars 2

OK, so did a little test in the mists just now.

1 Sigil of Doom
1 Sigil of Hydro

Paired with:

1 Sigil of Battle
1 Sigil of Geo

Flash DS -> weapon swap, both procced.

Weapon swap -> flash DS, only weapon swap procced.

Have reversed sigil setup, and also swapped which weapons were in each slot.

So if you’re going with on swap, then bear in mind that the weapon swap cooldown seems to block the DS proc.

Seems like a bug that DS doesn’t put the weapon swap sigils on cooldown. Expect it to be fixed at some point.

Thank you for testing that. It could really come in handy.

i hope they remove entirely the proccing on DS/RS. it removes control from energy sigil management. its horrible

Sublimatio.6981:

i hope they remove entirely the proccing on DS/RS. it removes control from energy sigil management. its horrible

I love it in pvp.

SupahSpankeh.8452:

Flash DS -> weapon swap, both procced.

Weapon swap -> flash DS, only weapon swap procced.
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So if you’re going with on swap, then bear in mind that the weapon swap cooldown seems to block the DS proc.

It doesn’t block anything. Shroud “swapping” uses the sigils of the weapon you have currently equipped. So naturally using sigil set A to flash Shroud and then swap to set B will trigger all 4 sigils. However, when you swap to B first, set B goes on a 9 sec cd and can’t proc if you go into Shroud before the icd is up.

Sublimatio.6981:

i hope they remove entirely the proccing on DS/RS. it removes control from energy sigil management. its horrible

Why don’t you just use RS after dodging instead of using weapon swap after dodging? And if you use RS while your sigil is on CD (within 9 seconds of swapping weapons), then it doesn’t affect the CD, right?

I’m sure your muscle memory is programmed to play with weapon swaps, but now you have an additional option. Just practice.