Guild Wars 2

I’ve noticed Sigil of Air being a lot more popular than fire, wondering at the logic behind that.

If you don’t choose both, then:

Air is 3sec CD and higher single target damage than fire
Fire is 5sec CD and multi target damage

So the logic behind that is, these people want higher single target damage.

I typically choose both. I have a these zerker shortbows:

SB1 – Air/Fire
SB2 – Purity/Generosity
SB3 – Air/Energy
SB4 – Energy/Hydromancy
SB5 – Air/Strength

I’ll use any one of them depending on build.

Don’t even get my started on my vast zerker sword/dagger/pistol collection, or my variations on other sets. The bank/inviso bag space is REAL.

I personally go fire on sb (along with an energy sigil). More just due to how the fire seems to go along better with the bouncing auto attack. Since you can’t control if it’ll proc that air crit on the desired target, the aoe aspect of fire can come in handy.

fire sigil is also good to see location of ur enemy in stealth when u r spamming aoes w shortbow, for example where exactly an enemy thief stays inside his last refuge> swap to ur meele set, burst him down in his own refuge

Kadin.2356:

I’ve noticed Sigil of Air being a lot more popular than fire, wondering at the logic behind that.

Air procs more often and does higher damage.
Fire has a very visible animation that can give away the position of stealthed enemies, and gives you a bit more AoE cleave.

personally I think there’s very little reason to take Fire over Air. the higher damage just outweighs any slight advantages Fire might offer.

in terms of combinations, Air + Generosity is probably the best combination of sigils for shortbow on 26006.

Aren’t they both just pretty bad and you just should use bloodlust, accuracy, force, of the night or something like this?

Fire, its an AoE proc and thief SB is an AoE weapon. Just fits it better.

ProtoGunner.4953:

Aren’t they both just pretty bad and you just should use bloodlust, accuracy, force, of the night or something like this?

I’m sure he is talking about PvP as Short Bow has no place in PvE for Combat.

I prefer Fire for the AoE. Mesmer clones disagree.

Edit: this filter…

Well, personally i use:
Air / Energy in duels
Fire / energy in pvp (sometimes Fire / Air or Air / Energy)
Energy / Bloodlust in WvW
Energy / Fire in GvG
and have a Air / Fire in any case I would need it,
last ones in ascended of course :P
Some others with condi stats etc, but I´m not using it really, just having it in my kitten nal, so…
@Woaden.9425 I feel with you, same problem, just that I have two thiefs with several kinds of weapons / armors AND a lot of fun stuff (tonics ftw) which i could need sometimes, like raiding as quaggan, dancing as molten berserker, beeing the second pet for a ranger with Endless Mystery Cat Tonic etc
And everything just for wvw, can´t imagine what I would have to do with all the extra weapons needed for pve xD

Happy new year btw

Acotje.5689:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Aren’t they both just pretty bad and you just should use bloodlust, accuracy, force, of the night or something like this?

I’m sure he is talking about PvP as Short Bow has no place in PvE for Combat.

I prefer Fire for the AoE. Mesmer clones disagree.

Edit: this filter…

SB no place for PVE? Not true at all. Um one of the best blast finishers in the game with Cluster bomb, evade in #3, poison field, and teleport to get around the map super fast. The blast finisher alone is worth taking it.

JDjitsu.7895:

Acotje.5689:

ProtoGunner.4953:

Aren’t they both just pretty bad and you just should use bloodlust, accuracy, force, of the night or something like this?

I’m sure he is talking about PvP as Short Bow has no place in PvE for Combat.

I prefer Fire for the AoE. Mesmer clones disagree.

Edit: this filter…

SB no place for PVE? Not true at all. Um one of the best blast finishers in the game with Cluster bomb, evade in #3, poison field, and teleport to get around the map super fast. The blast finisher alone is worth taking it.

Acotje.5689:

for Combat

It’s pretty good to build up bloodlust stacks wiht SB in open world zerg events. Ofc it has no use in serious combat like Dungeons/Fractals.

Air+Fire all the way.

Woaden.9425:

If you don’t choose both, then:

Air is 3sec CD and higher single target damage than fire
Fire is 5sec CD and multi target damage

So the logic behind that is, these people want higher single target damage.

I typically choose both. I have a these zerker shortbows:

SB1 – Air/Fire
SB2 – Purity/Generosity
SB3 – Air/Energy
SB4 – Energy/Hydromancy
SB5 – Air/Strength

I’ll use any one of them depending on build.

Don’t even get my started on my vast zerker sword/dagger/pistol collection, or my variations on other sets. The bank/inviso bag space is REAL.

i pretty much do this with different armor sets, trinkets, and weapons on all 8 professions lol