[PvE]Which signet for Grest Sword user?
I like flames sigil, but the superior is extremely expensive. Superior sigil of air, while not as good as flames, is much much cheaper and I like it. 5% critical is pretty good too. I find that I have no trouble getting to 25 stacks even without a might sigiil.
If you want more survivablity, you can always go with Sigil of Blood. It combines well with Omnomberry Pies to keep you up for long fights. DPS wise, I like Fire and Air Sigils.
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Sigil of Fire/Air: With high CritChance they should proc every 6-7 seconds. You can check how much damage proc does and compare it to how much damage you during 6-7 seconds. If “damage dealt during 6-7 seconds” > 20 * “proc damage” then you should use Sigil of Force.
Fire/Air only scales with power so Force should be better with high CritChance (0.9+) and CritDamage (2.5).
Also Air is single-damage, Force works against objects, Force doesn’t use a cooldown and Fire costs a fortune.
Sigil of Battle: Internal cooldown (2 or 3 seconds) so you get perhaps 2-4 Might stacks from it which is 70-140 power. If “70-140 power” / “your power including other Might sources and buffs” < 0.05 then Sigil of Force is better.
Also Force doesn’t use a cooldown and won’t get capped with 25 Might.
Sigil of CritChance (5): You can calculate how much additional CritChance increases your damage with:
(- AddCritChance + AddCritChance * BaseCritDmg) / (1 – BaseCritChance + BaseCritChance * BaseCritDamage).
With 0.9 CritChance, 2.5 CritDmg (= 100) and 0.05 AdditionalCritChance you get 3% more damage.
Also increased CritChance affects other things but may get capped at 100%.
(edited by Wethospu.6437)
Depends:
Sigil of Force – 5% damage increase. No cooldown and no proc chance reliance… just consistent reliable damage. Wethospu’s post also shows that it wins in most cases. If you can afford a second GS, I would get a Sigil of Night. Swap to this at night, and that’s 10% damage. Don’t need number crunching to show this is the best DPS increase when it grows dark.
Sigil of Generosity – Beautiful anti-debuff sigil. In PvE, this is pretty much all you need to keep debuffs off of you. Saves you from soldier/runing or relying on mending (except heavy condition casting bosses/mobs, which are relatively rare).
Sigil of Blood – Gives your sword HP on crit. 450+ hp every ~5 seconds can add a lot to survivability.
Sigil of Energy – Gives you 50% upon weapon swap, which means an extra dodge. Warrior doesn’t have the combat mobility of many other classes, so this extra dodge can be nice.