Guild Wars 2

I’ve found a bug with the trigger effect from said sigil: sometimes the effect won’t activate (not only you don’t get to see the animation, but it doesn’t actually chill nearby enemies).

I ran some tests and I think I found out that this happens only when there are a “lot of” actions being performed close to you (read: more than 2), such as an enemy channeling a spell along with some ground effect. That is enough to block the sigil to trigger its effect when a weapon gets swapped.

Additional info: it doesn’t happen all the times, but I’d say a good 60% of them. I’ve also noticed that if you’re standing still instead of moving while swapping weapon to trigger the effect, it sort of helps triggering it (as in, it gets bugged less times in comparison).

Although it is pretty randomic, so I can’t say I am sure what causes this bug. I guess it needs some observation.

Are you in battle when you switch weapons every time? I’m just curious, because that mucked me up when I first got it (the same with Geomancy), since it only seems to proc when the weapon is ‘active’.

I tried it and it only chills, like sigil of ice, which says in the tool tip that it chills, while hydromancy sigil says in the tooltip that it actually freezes (ie immobilizes) the target.

It’s not a bug, just the way it’s worded. Freeze = Chilled.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Freeze

I see, in that case I suggest creating tooltips in unified wording, ie agree that it’s called “chilled” and not call it something different elsewhere.
Especially in the light that there’s actually a skill that does freeze you in an iceblock.

Yes of course I am in battle. The tooltip clearly states that the effect triggers while in combat. It is not supposed to proc when out of combat.