Guild Wars 2

Fire. Fire should win most of the time in this situation unless you have less than 5% crit chance.

I like Impact for multiple reasons.

I burst with hammer, and impact gives a lot of added damage. When you get accustomed to hammer you can land 3-4 hits with your initial burst while your opponent is stunned/KD (with breaker/shaker), and 2-3 more every time shaker gets off CD. Remember, the damage boost is applied with shaker damage as well, as you stun your target and then damage them.
Also, if you get a shaker in the middle of a group you get the 10% on all of them, and then you can do hammer 4 with the added damage. That is a lot of added damage.

What I don’t like about Fire on Hammer is that it procs on crit lol. Hammer hits very slowly, therefore you will see it proc less often then with other, faster hitting weapons.

Then again, it is a full extra hit. And the AoE is awesome, no doubt.

I suggest you try Impact first… Fire costs like what, 6g? Impact is 3s….

Anyways, just my two cents.

I guess I’m slightly biased strictly for PvP, considering most people have stun breakers and stability. Using that +10% dmg on stunned of knocked back isn’t going to be consistent.

Factor in the speed at which hammer attacks, and the number of attacks in a knocked down sequence and then the + damage that comes with it.

Lets say 4 attacks at +10% damage, where each attack does 1.5k damage (round numbers). Looking at +600 damage (150 damage x4).

Lets say 4 attacks with Sigil of Fire proccing once that will do I believe 1.2k damage. Even at a low crit chance the liklihood of you proccing fire is high. As soon as you factor in multiple enemies that number climbs a lot faster than a situational 10% damage increase. Then you need to consider auto attack swings when you can’t knock down or knock back a foe, because Sigil of Fire still works in those situations.

Intel is better than both of them. You never wanna run with hammer out all the time. You should be using fast hands and swapping every 5 seconds so you don’t use hammer auto attacks. Intel will give you either a 4-5k back break or ES every time you swap it. Impact is only good when they’re disabled which is only 30% of the time you hit them. Fire is okay but the procs reset other sigils that you may have if they are active sigils.

Callahan.3180:

Intel is better than both of them. You never wanna run with hammer out all the time. You should be using fast hands and swapping every 5 seconds so you don’t use hammer auto attacks. Intel will give you either a 4-5k back break or ES every time you swap it. Impact is only good when they’re disabled which is only 30% of the time you hit them. Fire is okay but the procs reset other sigils that you may have if they are active sigils.

May be true in WvW where you can see some outrageous numbers, in tPvP you don’t get anything to crazy with hammer. Factor in blinds and you may end up missing that +100 crit attack.

Sigil of Fire is the most consistent damage output sigil for when it comes to PvP.

Defektive.7283:

Callahan.3180:

Intel is better than both of them. You never wanna run with hammer out all the time. You should be using fast hands and swapping every 5 seconds so you don’t use hammer auto attacks. Intel will give you either a 4-5k back break or ES every time you swap it. Impact is only good when they’re disabled which is only 30% of the time you hit them. Fire is okay but the procs reset other sigils that you may have if they are active sigils.

May be true in WvW where you can see some outrageous numbers, in tPvP you don’t get anything to crazy with hammer. Factor in blinds and you may end up missing that +100 crit attack.

Sigil of Fire is the most consistent damage output sigil for when it comes to PvP.

Agreed. If you sheath correctly you will always have it though and if you’re blinded you simply have to swing once, but be careful not to be near a target or it will disappear. only in mid air.