Shortbow Sigils

[Jugglemonkey.8741]

I've been trying out Sind's S/P build for a bit of variety, but it's been a long while since I played daredevil much. What sigils do people run in WvW these days? I remember energy/bloodlust, air/fire and draining/absorption being a thing, that still current?

[Sobx.1758]

It depends what you want to do with it most of the time. On shortbow I'd probably stick to energy/absorption, could consider bloodlust if I felt I want slightly more power I guess.

[kash.9213]

Some of it might depend on when you're switching around your Trickery and DrD traits, I think Sind builds bloodlust, but you'll probably end up supplementing what the gut punch of your build (that's going to be different for you and your matchup) couldn't get from traits and stuff, all of the resource pools of your build kind of get shifted around like a Rubik's Cube until everything's covered or at their threshold. I'm on a different build that's pretty close to my DE build so I'm still using draining/absorption but cleanse or energy would probably have more impact on a normal build.

[Jugglemonkey.8741]

@Sobx.1758@kash.9213The matchup I'm in now has a lot of condi players (WSR) so cleansing and generosity have worked out pretty nicely today. I'm running a condi DE build that has loads of cleanse and a glass DE build for sniping in build slots 2 and 3, so I don't need this build to do masses of damage, just to be hard to kill/catch. If you don't run DA, do you feel like there's enough poison uptime for choking gas to interrupt reliably?

[babazhook.6805]

If I am in SB to do damage I tend to like interrupt sigils. If I am in a build that uses SB mostly for mobility and escape I like Cleansing. General when escaping I will have conditions on me and flushing three as I port away a big help.