Guild Wars 2

So right now I am refining my condi build for roaming, and I am deciding between Sigil of Frailty (50% chance to add vulnerability on hit) and bursting (+6% condition damage). I am trying to decide between the two and I’m having trouble committing. so I wanted to pose the question to the community.

What would you take? The cover condition or the extra damage?

When roaming, I rarely have issues with cover conditions. Sigil of Torment is usually enough on that (plus, it’s more damage). The only times my bleed stacks usually get cleansed are either condition-specific cleanses or total cleanses, niether of which cover conditions work with.

On the other hand, Sigil of Bursting does help to improve the damage ticks you get in before those cleanses. This is especially relevant if you join up with a zerg.

Why not both?
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removesoul.9670:

Why not both?
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I use both.

Rennoko.5731:

removesoul.9670:

Why not both?
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I use both.

Because I’m dead set on sigil of torment on one of them.

Roe.3679:

Rennoko.5731:

removesoul.9670:

Why not both?
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I use both.

Because I’m dead set on sigil of torment on one of them.

I guess it depends on how much you value an extra cover condition. I don’t find the proc rate often enough on torment to justify the cooldown, though it is a more difficult to cleanse condition than the other 3 damaging ones.

For instance I run Torment/Battle on staff, because I know it will proc during the no more than 10 seconds I am on staff, and since I spend the majority of my time on scepter, I don’t have to worry about that wasted ICD on torment not doing anything.

A solo build I think I would prefer the cover condition, a team build the damage.

I like to use a sigil of strength in my offhand personally. Stacking might means extra condition damage as well as extra power, so your physical damage and your condition damage will both increase over time. You’ll only ever get about 4 or 5 stacks but last I checked the return from that is more than a sigil of bursting offers. The tradeoff however is that bursting is all the time where as strength is only when you have enough stacks. Still, I enjoy it regardless.