Guild Wars 2

Hi, I’ve noticed this issue on my Elementalist for a while now.

I’m using 3 Signets on my Ele’s bar: Signet of Fire, Earth and Water. I’ve noticed that whenever I want to swap Earth and Fire on my bar (both are still equipped, but their positions have been switched), I end up losing the passive effect of the signet that is swapped in. For example:

Skill 7 is Signet of Earth
Skill 8 is Signet of Fire
My effects monitor above my skill bar shows the passive effects of both signets (Improved precision and improved toughness.)

I use the “up arrow” above Signet of Earth and select Signet of Fire from my list of utilities, my intent being only to swap the signets’ positions on my bar. The result: the 2 signets swap positions (Skill 7 is now Signet of Fire and Skill 8 is now Signet of Earth), but I have lost the passive effect of Signet of Fire for no apparent reason (effects monitor only shows Improved Toughness.)

I’ve only tested this with my Elementalist, so I don’t know if this issue affects other professions’ signets as well.

Edit: forgot to mention that the only way I’ve managed to fix the problem is by swapping out both signets for other skills and then slotting the signets into the correct slots again. This problem is not game-breaking by any means, especially as your skills’ placements will tend to be pretty fixed, but still an issue worth checking out IMHO.

I have noticed the same thing on my Level 80 Elementalist, but it seems to only affect Slot 7. When I equip a Signet into Slot 7, the passive skills do not show up as attributes until after the signet is activated and the cooldown has passed.

Here’s what I did:

Switched Signet of Fire to Slot 7 from Slot 8 —- Precision and Crit Chance stats dropped.
Activated SLot 7 …. after cooldown, Precision and Crit Chance stats reappeared.

Same thing happened when I did the same switch with Signet of Earth … but with toughness attribute.

Slots 8 and 9 worked fine.

So, it appears that one does not get ‘credit’ for the attribute enhancements until after the signet in SLot 7 has been used at least once …. not a game breaker, but annoying to remember. Slot 7 on an enhanced mouse is an easy one to activate – much easier than 8 or 9.