Guild Wars 2

I’m a little bit confused on these two skills from sigils, flame blast is obviously an aoe compared to the single target lighting strike, but is it also stronger single target? I don’t really understand what the wiki means.

Assumingly, you would think single target attacks would do more damage, which it does, but I had to test it out myself.
Lightning Strike does a bit more damage than Flame Blast, but having the AoE helps.
These were just numbers that I tested in HotM:
Lightning Strike – 1687
Flame Blast – 1407
Approximately 300 more damage than Flame Blast.

Those rare yet beautiful times your CnD sets off a strike/blast and then the follow up bs sets off a strike/blast

Crucify.1649:

Assumingly, you would think single target attacks would do more damage, which it does, but I had to test it out myself.
Lightning Strike does a bit more damage than Flame Blast, but having the AoE helps.
These were just numbers that I tested in HotM:
Lightning Strike – 1687
Flame Blast – 1407
Approximately 300 more damage than Flame Blast.

Nice thanks for the info. Currently I am thinking of how to rework my sigils, I believe I’m using flat crit% and damage %. I’m probably going to move to sigil of fire and not sure what for the secondary. Maybe bloodlust? I’m not sure if my play style leads to effectively keeping high stacks though. Have any recommendations?

Addictive.9387:

Crucify.1649:

Assumingly, you would think single target attacks would do more damage, which it does, but I had to test it out myself.
Lightning Strike does a bit more damage than Flame Blast, but having the AoE helps.
These were just numbers that I tested in HotM:
Lightning Strike – 1687
Flame Blast – 1407
Approximately 300 more damage than Flame Blast.

Nice thanks for the info. Currently I am thinking of how to rework my sigils, I believe I’m using flat crit% and damage %. I’m probably going to move to sigil of fire and not sure what for the secondary. Maybe bloodlust? I’m not sure if my play style leads to effectively keeping high stacks though. Have any recommendations?

Depends on where you’re fighting, WvW or PvE. I suggest bloodlust for both but have bloodlust for PvE at all time and bloodlust just to have stacks of damage and then have an actual WvW weapon with force, etc.

I use Sigil of Fire on my Shortbow (adds more AoE to the SB’s AoE) and on my Sword (Another Aoe to the Swords cleave autoattack).
Sigils of Lightning on some of my Daggers/Pistols, when used as primary weapon as they are single-target attack and the single-target lightning adds an extra punch.

…yeah. I have several sets of weapons and swap between them occasionally…

RedSpectrum.1975:

Those rare yet beautiful times your CnD sets off a strike/blast and then the follow up bs sets off a strike/blast

I thought they share the same CD…

Never put bloodlust on any of you main weapons. You can have it on an extra gets the stacks and take it off for something else and keep the stacks.

RedSpectrum.1975:

Those rare yet beautiful times your CnD sets off a strike/blast and then the follow up bs sets off a strike/blast

Those must be very rare indeed, as they have 5 secs cooldown, and cooldown sigils once they proc, the cooldown is applied to any other sigils… unless, of course, you mean, C&D, wait 5 secs, BS…

Eduardo.4675:

RedSpectrum.1975:

Those rare yet beautiful times your CnD sets off a strike/blast and then the follow up bs sets off a strike/blast

Those must be very rare indeed, as they have 5 secs cooldown, and cooldown sigils once they proc, the cooldown is applied to any other sigils… unless, of course, you mean, C&D, wait 5 secs, BS…

I’m a patient backstabber. It may be rare since ive only seen it once, and it was used in conjunction with a HiS :p

Iove.3902:

Never put bloodlust on any of you main weapons. You can have it on an extra gets the stacks and take it off for something else and keep the stacks.

words to live by!!

Fyi the exactly difference in damage between Air And fire sigils is 10%. Both have the same power contribution.

RedSpectrum.1975:

Eduardo.4675:

RedSpectrum.1975:

Those rare yet beautiful times your CnD sets off a strike/blast and then the follow up bs sets off a strike/blast

Those must be very rare indeed, as they have 5 secs cooldown, and cooldown sigils once they proc, the cooldown is applied to any other sigils… unless, of course, you mean, C&D, wait 5 secs, BS…

I’m a patient backstabber. It may be rare since ive only seen it once, and it was used in conjunction with a HiS :p

Yep. You’re patient, no doubt. But i wouldnt call that BS a follow up.

Med.6150:

Fyi the exactly difference in damage between Air And fire sigils is 10%. Both have the same power contribution.

Yes, you are right.

But some people believes SoA sometimes adding 1sec stun to the foe and SoF sometimes adding 1sec burn to the foes.

I didn’t believe this.

I prefer SoA - coz a bit more damage. Mostly, my thief don’t need to do AOE.
After ANEt’s fix I will add to choise SoBlood - 482 damage every 2 sec, or 1200 damage every 5 sec. But it not only damage, but self heal (the same 1200 HP every 5 sec) too
But now this sigil triggers only once per 5 seconds

For reference: Flame Blast scales 1.0 with power. Lightning Strike scales 1.1.

For single target spiking Lightning is better. For PvE/aoE, Flame Blast is better.