So I brought this issue up several months ago, and seeing as the issue is still valid after all these months, I wanted to bring it up to your attention once more. Fortunately I think I may have found the issue. This issue is mostly being brought up for the Sigil of Intelligence, but it’s the same issue for all weapon-swap sigils. It seems that the warrior’s minor trait ‘Fast Hands’, which cuts weapon swap cool down by 5 seconds, is somehow interfering with the sigil. I made a second warrior, one that does not use that minor trait, and so far the sigil has worked normally.
I would also like to note that the sigil worked perfectly fine in the beta and in the first month or so after release, even with “Fast Hands”. Then some update came down and boom, the sigil no longer worked as intended.
Yes, I am aware that weapon swap sigils have internal cool-downs, SoI’s being 9 seconds, but the sigil will sometimes not activate even if I had not swapped to the weapon that has it equipped in a few minutes. In these situations, where I had not used the equipped weapon in several minutes, the sigil is supposed to activate immediately on weapon swap while in combat. It just plain doesn’t, sometimes.
Example 1:
Weapon set 1 has the sigil, weapon 2 does not.
Assuming I’ve been out of combat for at least 5 seconds, I initiate combat with set 1 (sigil not activated because it only activates on weapon swap while in combat). Then switch to weapon set 2. 5 seconds later, I swap back to set 1 and the sigil is supposed to activate, and it doesn’t. Even then, the cool-down for the sigil is done by then, so it’s supposed to trigger.
Example 2:
Assuming I’ve been out of combat for about 10 seconds, I start combat with weapon set 2, then a few seconds later I swap to weapon set 1. At this point the sigil is supposed to activate, but it does not. So I swap back to weapon set 2 five seconds later, then have to wait another 5 seconds before I can swap back to weapon set 1. I swap to weapon set 1 again (at least 10 seconds have elapsed since the first time I swapped to weapon set 1) and once again the sigil does not activate.
Long story short, the sigils only work some of the time while using the Fast Hands trait, regardless of how long I wait before activating them.
Also, the only time the sigil works properly is when attacking static objects like target practice dummies and doors (which are immune to critical hits anyway). The issue only occurs when fighting actual foes.
Give us more GW 1 weapon and armor skins, please. COPY/PASTE ALREADY!!!!