Guild Wars 2

After a bit of testing, I have noticed that an elementalist with a “next attack after weapon swap” sigil (such as sigil of Doom, Leeching, or Intelligence) that switches attunement while casting or channeling a spell in the previous attunement will expend the effect of the sigil without receiving the benefit. For example, if a scepter/dagger elementalist is channeling air 1 and switches to another attunement mid-channel, the effect of the sigil (the symbol that states “on next attack, x occurs”) will appear briefly with the rest of the ele’s buffs and then be expended the next time one of the ele’s spell’s deals damage. However, if that spell is the spell he/she was casting/channeling in the previous attunement (in this example: air 1), then the sigil will not go into effect, despite being expended (i.e. no poison will be applied, no health will be leeched, no 100% crit chance, etc.).

I have only tested this in a pvp setting and only with scepter/dagger and dagger/dagger. Yes, I was not at max health when testing leech on hit, and yes, the sigils do work if the next attack to hit them is either a utility or an attack of the attunement into which they switched in order to gain the charge. As far as I can tell, this applies both to channeled and cast spells.

Is this intentional? If so, why? If not, is there any way this could be fixed or resolved? If disallowing eles from using these types of sigils helps balance, that is fine. However, if eles are actually meant to be able to use “next hit on weapon or attunement swap” sigils in pvp, then this bug should come to your attention.