Guild Wars 2

Location: tested in both the Mists and Lion’s Arch
Prof: Guardian
Race: Asura

Since the last patch or two %stat increase sigils seem to be stacking when equipped in the both the main and off-hand.

example: Sigil of Force x2 gives +10% damage increase instead of +5%

Either this is a ninja buff or a bug. ( since they never used to stack, and this is reflected in the wiki )

I’m not 100% sure if this is also applies to Sigil of Accuracy ( requires more testing ) – but I also noticed if you equip 2 identical weapon sets, 1 set with 2x accuracy on the main and offhand and the other with just 1x accuracy on the main hand – the latter will get +5% accuracy as expected, but the former will actually get -5% accuracy ( so as far as the stats panel is concerned, neither sigil has any effect ) – I’m not sure if this is reflected in actual combat or not.

If i have time I might check whether 2xSigil of Night is giving +20% damage at nighttime

Could also possibly be leading up to an update where Sigils on 2 handed weapons have 2x the effect.

/fingerscrossed

Josh Davis.6015:

Hey Tarsius,

I wasn’t able to replicate this internally. Are you using steady weapons? Any additional information would be helpful.

Thanks!

Hi Josh,

I was using steady weapons, scepter and focus both with Sigil of Force and a second focus in my second set with no sigil slotted so I could switch quickly between them.

There is a discussion here which uncovered the issue, however another user tested it recently and couldn’t replicate it either.

I’ve just retested it myself using the same setup as before and I’m not seeing the double stacked bonus… so either it’s a temporary glitch or there are some dependencies on the issue occurring. ( day/night cycle perhaps? )

I’ll try and do a further test tomorrow in the morning to see if anything is different.

Cheers

lupercaleb.6041:

sigil of superior accuracy grants 5% crit chance. equipping a second one will do nothing. however, when you unequip one of these—either by removing the weapon or swapping weapon sets—the whole bonus is lost, even if you still have one in the other weapon set.

This could well explain it – if by switching between weapons I was actually losing 5% damage from my secondary set rather than gaining an extra 5% on my primary.

I can certainly replicate that issue as lupercaleb describes