Guild Wars 2

One handed ‘on-swap’ sigils don’t work for my Necromancer if I have any one handed weapon equipped with any ‘on crit’ sigils. This is only happening with my necro as I’ve tried all other professions with no problems. This has also been happening since the major sigil change patch on the 15th.

Here’s the setup:

Profession: Necromancer
Weapon set 1: Scepter+Superior Sigil of Tormenting / Dagger+Superior Sigil of Battle
Weapon set 2: Dagger+Superior Sigil of Battle / Focus+Superior Sigil of Strength

Swapping either set while in combat does not trigger the Sigils of Battle. If I start changing weapons out randomly after awhile (20-30 minutes) and put back the above set they usually start working again. If I log out or WP they stop working as before.

I have no idea why this only happens to my Necromancer, since like I said I have no problems with these same sigil setups on other professions.

I’ll continue posting bug reports and I will put in a support ticket as well since this has been going on since the 15th of April. If anyone else has a necro with a similar setup with these sigils please let me know if they’re working for you, or not.

Since this is still happening and even though I’m starting to think it’s just me having these issues here’s an update.

Going into water and returning to land get the sigils working again.

The same work around happened when the Givers weapons came out. All the sigils on them would stop working if you were downed until you equipped town clothes and back to armor. Sure seems similar.

Anyway that’s the update, maybe a dev will see this one day.

Allright, last time I post on this thread I promise.

Found a work-around that is 100% repeatable.

As soon as I log in or wp to a different map sigils stop working, so this needs to be repeated each time I do so. This also happens if I go down, even if rezed in battle so swap sigils will stop working everytime I go down. Of course I can only do the work-around out of combat. So this is what I have to do…

Un-equip all weapons.
Equip main hand weapons for each set.
Equip off hand weapons for each set.
Profit.

The order is critical. If I equip main hand and off hand for the same set first the sigils still won’t work. Going into the water also works. Using a townsclothes tonic does not.

So there it is. Hopefully if this is ever looked into my experiments and work-around will help in figuring out what’s going on and one day it’ll be fixed.

You need to be very careful changing weapons because you have an offhand dagger with sigil of battle and a mainhand dagger with sigil of battle. This is fine when they are on different weapon sets.

What’s happening in your case is that while changing weapons, you are (temporarily) having both of these sigils equipped at the same time: this causes the sigils to break due to stupid bugs. If this happens you must switch to a weapon set with no sigil of battle to unbug it.

Wethospu explains here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Most-optimized-sigil-combination/first#post3772693

Thanks draconx! And you’re so right.

I ended up ‘fixing’ the problem by switching the sigil of battle to be on the off-hand of both sets. Now no problems at all.

Glad it wasn’t just me and maybe this’ll help others that run into this problem.

Thanks again!