Guild Wars 2

So ever since the buff to two handed weapons that allows them to hold 2 sigils at a time, I’ve been at a loss with what to add to my Longbow. I’m a Berserker ranger that runs Longbow+Sword/Warhorn in most cases, and my Longbow’s main purpose in dungeons is as an ‘ejector seat’ from combat (E.G, I take heavy damage, use Hornet Sting to leap away from the enemy, switch to Longbow, stealth, and recover.) Up until now I’ve been running Sigil of Force on my Longbow due to its focus on heavy-hitting, but I’d like my second sigil to offer something more in the way of utility, specifically in a way that suits my use of the weapon. Does anyone have any ideas?

Sigil of Blood may be an option, if you keep attacking the target, but not a good idea for the stealth step.
Sigil of Energy is also good since it gives an extra dodge for that “Oh fecal matter!” ;D moment, I think this is the best one for your use.

I use the same weapon setup. I added sigil of fire to sigil of force. Gives good damage. Tried running sigil of fire and air instead of force. I missed the extra damage so i switched back to sigil of force.

Blood lust and;

Air for PvP

Fire for WvW

Accuracy and Intelligence, I find that extra chance to crit quite useful and if my crit chance is high enough (anywhere close to 50%) then I can put those extra points into power or toughness or vitality.

Littlefeather.8623:

Blood lust and;

Air for PvP

Fire for WvW

If you crit enough then in pvp both fire and air will add more damage than the 250 power from bloodlust

Dungeons: Force and Frailty
WvW Roaming: Air and Ice
WvW Zerging: Bloodlust and Fire
sPvP: lollomgbow

for my longbow i am using a sigil of force (because i had one left over from somewhere) and a sigil of air(because it is relatively strong and relatively cheap)

Since you’re mainly using it when you are trying to recover health, and I presume your melee set is your primary damage dealer…

How about Sigil of Water / Sigil of Renewal? or maybe Energy and Renewal? Heal up to full that much faster, then you can get back into melee.

I love Torment on my longbow. It triggers like crazy in my crit build and is great for attacking zergs in wvw as it has a (though be it small) aoe.

You know, I’ve seen quite a few LB rangers run Sigil of Torment and I just can’t say that I understand the decision. One stack of Torment every few seconds from what is likely a power build just doesn’t seem effective, especially when the LB has no innate way of applying other damaging conditions to put on pressure.

Fire and Air all day. Gives the weapon some sorely missing burst damage.

^ agreed, at least while I am solo roaming

fire/bloodlust is good for zerging

A quick question on a this thread though its old.

Is fire+air still optimal now RF acts like a burst, i know its a silly question who is going to argue ditching a more effective burst.

my current goal for full ascended working on the cheap gear now while collecting materials.
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From a WvW point of view could it be considered to swap fire or air for a different sigils.

(im my current build i loose might maintance out side of using the S/h set condisdering to swap my pet to a bird but i like the kds + boons from the soimonth + a pet for Conditions to trigger Predators onslaught)

sigil of fire
sigil of Air
Sigil of Force
Sigil of Incapacitation
Sigil of Hobbling
Sigil of Strength
Sigil of Blood
Superior Sigil of Cleansing (i have the materials and the recipe)
Sigil of Geomancy (increase my bleeding burst after stacking might+ plasma and soimoth maul totaling 7 bleeds currently without this sigil)

to increase the effectiveness of Predators onslaught without reducing the burst too much, what combination of Sigils out of these would you use now Rf has the ability to burst.

or should i consider dropping Bloodlust altogether in favour in one of the above sigils listed?

If you’re LB Ranger with SotF I highly reccomend Sigil of Ice on Longbow.

Sevans.4619:

Dungeons: Force and Frailty
WvW Roaming: Air and Ice
WvW Zerging: Bloodlust and Fire
sPvP: lollomgbow

+1 spot on!

Sigil of Fire is good in roaming wvw cause you will animation if you trigger it on stealthed thief. Im not sure if air is same or not but fire is obnoxiously obvious.

I mostly use Sigil of Fire and Sigil of Blood (I like the little extra sustain you get from the latter).

Sigil of fire and sigil of air, no question.

I love how no one said anything about random PvE zerging.
PvE Zerging, I personally use Perception and Fire on my longbow.
Nothing but crits and first burst everywhere!

Fire and Air all the way for WvW bursting. Helps so much…for me anyway

I have been fooling around with a sigil of rage, on top of the random machine gun pew pew procs you get to do quickness stomps and super fast resses. Give it a try!

I will , im trying to avoid the Fire+air combos , it greatly reduces the weapons Ability to kite effectively vs Active foes attacking you its Burst or die set up .

so i’d rather not use those two in combination with each other.

i will give it a go with sigil of rage though the 30sec cooldown puts me off , but with my current build i could time it very well with every barrage sounds fun

I use the chill and lightning sigils, not using LB too much. If I were to redo it now that the sigil is available, I would use generosity without a second consideration. That sigil is ridiculously good. I’m starting to default to that on most of my PvP builds.