Guild Wars 2

Should I use Sigil of Air? or Impact?

And please state why.

I currently have a 40~60% chance to crit, depending on the zone

Both Superior Air and Fire Sigils are better than the Sigil of Impact.

Sigil of Fire does hit an AoE. However, the AoE is fairly small. If you are balling up trash to AoE, the Sigil of Fire is going to hit multiple targets enough to justify the expense. In an awful lot of situations you’ll find that tiny AoE is wasted and you might as well take the additional damage from a Sigil of Air (and save the gold in the process).

Sigil of Fire.

The stun doesn’t last very long (0.5 seconds) and won’t benefit from Impact and Sigil of Fire does more damage than Sigil of Air even on a single target.

Can anyone back that up? (Sigil of Fire)

I’ve tried them myself and so far, it varies to me.

Sigil of Air does 10% more damage on average.

Sigil of Fire is better though because it AOE splashes and you’re in melee range if your using sword + pistol.

DreamOfACure.4382:

Should I use Sigil of Air? or Impact?

And please state why.

I currently have a 40~60% chance to crit, depending on the zone

Trick question. Sigil of Fire.

AFAIK, Sigil of Air has 1.1 skill coefficient while Sigil of Fire has 1.0. Sigil of Fire is also an AOE, however.

To be honest, I’ve used both Sigil of Air and Sigil of Fire on my shortbow and never really noticed much of a difference between them. Just my experience. Sigil of Fire is currently about 5x more expensive on the TP, FWIW.