Guild Wars 2

Unless I’m not getting how these work now, I’ve noticed (and have recorded an example of two instances on video) that in some cases a stack is not added upon the death of a mob as expected.

This is with dual daggers, one with a Sup. Sigil of Perception, the other with a different non-on-kill-stack sig. I believe it doesn’t matter which dagger hits, if that’s even something that actually is a function in combat. Nor, I think, does it matter if the mob is killed by a condition you’ve applied, as long as you have the weapon equipped at the time.

Anyone else notice this sort of thing happening?

Missing an extremely important piece of information.
There has always been mobs that do not count for stacks. If a mob doesn’t give exp it won’t give stacks either(no loot either).

The mobs I caught on video to review this most recent time were normal mobs, in this case Skritt Lobbers. A few of them gave stacks, a couple didn’t, all the same level and location, so there shouldn’t be any notable differences between them. I’m now keeping my eyes on stack builders to see if I notice any other anomalies. It’s possible this is an artifact of the recent changes to the way these sigils work, and nothing major. Still, not getting stacks consistently is important to clear up.

It doesn’t matter if you hit with the weapon that has the sigil or not. You can hit with a shortbow, switch to dagger before it dies, and get a stack added as long as you did damage to count for credit. The important thing is that it has to be a mob that counts. As said, if it doesn’t give experience (and things that ‘infinitely’ spawn for events, etc, won’t give experience and/or count for stacking sigils sometimes, and I believe things ‘summoned’ won’t either, think wolves calling for friends), it won’t count toward a stacking sigil.

If you are finding a place that consistently does this, then others could tell you why it is happening, or find whatever is causing it to not stack if it is unintended.

Skritt lobbers? Are you in Ourobore Caves in Harathi Hinterlands? That place has a mix of spawns. Some of the skritts there are of the ‘no exp, no loot’ variety.

Nope, I was just trotting through the caves in eastern Metrica Province. Just regular xp-givin’ spawns. I haven’t been paying attention to this issue as I’d planned, but still might. I have the “evidence” on video, I’m just still wondering if it’s general or only with daggers/two-weapon sets and if it involves any other mobs or affects other sigils. Dry Top has been stealing my time.