Guild Wars 2

I’m just curious what sigils other rangers are running on their weapons.

My setup is typically:
Shortbow: Sigil of Rage
Axe (x2): Sigil of Earth
Longbow: Sigil of Earth

The reasoning behind earth sigil on longbow is that I have the trait for bleeding on crit, which combined with my current 69% crit rate and rapid fire can actually stack up quite a few stacks of bleeding.

Shortbow: Sigil of Air

Axe: Sigil of Air
Warhorn: Sigil of Leeching

Shortbow : Sigil of Perception

I haven’t decided what to use on my Longbow yet so it’s a bog standard +5% Crit Chance

Is this for WvW?

If so…

Longbow: Sigil of Fire

Shortbow: Sigil of Earth

I don’t really like the Sigil of Air on the shortbow. It has a 5-second cooldown and the shortbow’s rate of fire is just over 2 shots per second.

With exotic precision gear in every slot and investment in the Skirmishing trait line, a character can have a critical hit chance over 60%. This means you will average more than one critical hit per second on a target, and have a lot of potentially wasted triggers of the Sigil of Air due to the 5-second cooldown. I get the feeling you’d get more damage out of the Sigil of Earth, which has no cooldown, even if you are not using much bonus condition damage.

If you have a lot of bonus critical damage, Sigils of Accuracy are great because the increased critical chance means your bonus critical damage gets applied more often, which is a great boost in total damage. The more bonus crit damage you have, the bigger the benefit of a Sigil of Accuracy.