Guild Wars 2

Due to a reason that is beyond my comprehension, I periodically witness my Superior Sigil of Hydromancy inconveniently ceasing to activate. This unfortunately is not an occasional event, but a persistent problem which essentially equates to a dead Sigil; it will not activate on weapon swaps until replaced with a new one. The first time this happened to me was with a set of pvp weapons, which is not such a big issue when you can simply grab a new one for free. However, I have found that the problem has bled into my pve gear, and feel it is unfair that one should have to constantly repurchase their Sigils if they do not indicate their might be an unknown activation limit. The reason I suggest that this might be related to a possible activation limitation is because the gear was not transmuted and had a fresh Sigil inserted, as opposed to one that has been recycled many times.

What I would like to know from others is whether or not this same experience has been witnessed with Sigil of Hydromancy, and if there have been similar instances with other Sigils?

I’m going to venture out into the unknown and guess the following.

After being downed and or defeated in a map, my sigils stop working until, I go to character select screen and back, or change maps. This seems to reset them. Is this ideal for WvWvW, not exactly.

My problem is that the Sigil is literally dead. It will not activate after map switching, re-logging, or character swapping. The only solution to my particular situation is to insert a new Sigil and replace the old one, however that is not ideal when it costs around 65-70 silver each. My frustration is that this has happened a couple times with just the Hydromancy Sigil, was hoping that if this has happened with other sigils that perhaps it was an unknown trigger limit that could be addressed, however what you suggests is that certain variables can cause some sigils to malfunction momentarily; either way, issues that need to be addressed can be found from both scenarios.