Guild Wars 2

I have a s/s cond warrior and needing advice on sigils to use on my weapons

At them moment I have Sigil of Earth + Sigil of Bursting on my swords and Sigil of Earth on my bow..

Q1 – Do the sigils of Earth stack with the trait ‘Precise strikes’? giving me a 96% bleed chance on crit?

Q2 – I am interested in the sigil of Torment, would I be better using one in place of either sigil of blood or sigil of bursting?

Bursting and Agony is better for you. With Doom on your Longbow.

Agony will be better dps for you over time than Earth.

This is for WvWvW

And thats the advice I gave you.

Agony would be a complete waste. If you take the 50% bleed duration trait, food with 40%, and runes with 10% you get 100% bleed duration and 50% for everything else.

Currently sigil of torment is somewhat buggy in that if you have earth on one weapon and torment on the other, when you crit it won’t put them both on CD unlike most on crit sigils. Sigil of earth has either a 1 or 2 sec ICD and precise strikes doesnt have an ICD. They also dont stack to 93% to cause a bleed on crit, its 2 separate bleeds, one with a 60% chance and one with a 33% which is a lot better than if they stacked.

Agony wouldn’t be a waste, since not everybody runs runes that give condition duration. Melandru runes are fairly commonplace and that wouldn’t fit your criteria.

Budchgon.2108:

Q1 – Do the sigils of Earth stack with the trait ‘Precise strikes’? giving me a 96% bleed chance on crit?

Q2 – I am interested in the sigil of Torment, would I be better using one in place of either sigil of blood or sigil of bursting?

1. No they do not. They’re separate procs that give different bleeds. The Sigil gives a 60% chance for kitten bleed, whereas Precise Strikes provides a 33% chance for a 3s bleed. So you can get 0 bleeds, 1 bleed (for either 3s or 5s) or 2 bleeds (1 for 5s, 1 for 3s)
2. It’s not really worth it. While it is an AoE condition, it’s only 1 stack of Torment on a 7s cooldown. Finally, the proc odds are pretty bad. Sigil of Fire would be better if you want AoEs. If you want the condis, then Sigil of Earth.

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Agony wouldn’t be a waste, since not everybody runs runes that give condition duration. Melandru runes are fairly commonplace and that wouldn’t fit your criteria.

Its still a waste, since then without food youd be at either 60% or 70% with agony

Not sure how going from 90% to 100% is a waste.

But you’re entitled to your opinion.

Wouldn’t the Toxic stone provide more DPS because of the extra tick of burning on Combustive shot and 2 extra tick of torment on Sw5 while providing a 100% to bleed?