Fire Sigil + Spark vs fire Elemental discharge

[Zieg]

Is there a difference in damage or status effect between laying down a fire sigil then casting spark for a fire ball, vs. infuse fire then elemental discharge? If there is no advantage to having to stand in a sigil rather than being mobile, then the fire sigil thing seems pretty limiting.

Thanks in advance for any answers.

[AsianGirlLover]

Being mobile is the obviously superior choice.

Don’t mess with sigil magic unless you’re some NASA genius with too much time on their hands. The only way to be effective with sigils is to combine them all together with rune magic. You’ll be spending 5 minutes prepping for a fight you’ll win in 2 seconds, but it’ll be boring af.

Example: cast fire sigil, cast ice sigil, cast wind sigil, cast rune mine, get agro of enemy, run like a b**** back to sigil, cast spark/mana ward.

[_mike]

No difference others than mobility, but I can advice you to give the sigil other use rather than casting fireball with spark:

If you go with elemental discharge and have a fire imbued weapon, you can then cast a fire sigil and use mana ward to get the immolate buff which will do 0.3 fire damage to self and add 30% fire damage for 60 seconds.

You can partially mitigate most of this self fire damage if you have decent fire defense, but if you dont you will only lose 18hp total so its worth.

In top of that you can recast the warm boon (with food or anything else) to add another 20% fire damage.

Sure you won't be doing this every single fight you get into, but is a nice set up before a boss fight.

Specially if your weapon already does natural fire damage.

Go elemental discharge !

[Zieg]

Thanks for the answers. I actually co-op with a friend and our concepts are:

Me) Melee with magic buffs, tanking/kiting

Him) ranged magic with sigils, runes, etc. like a wizard, destroying things with more powerful magic than I have.

He's been using fire sigil + spark so far, but when I got the elemental discharge we were both thinking "what's the point of standing still?"

[PocketYoda]

Use mods...

[AsianGirlLover]

Originally posted by DanteYoda:

Use mods...

I’m waiting for the mod that replaces the caravan merchant’s voice with Billy Mays
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrnVNZpnvRI

[Tymon]

There actually is one pretty big difference actually besides just mobility. elemental discharge requires using a breakthrough point, fire sigil+spark doesn't. Though if you have both, there is naturally no reason to use fire sigil+spark

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

Originally posted by DanteYoda:

Use mods...

I’m waiting for the mod that replaces the caravan merchant’s voice with Billy Mays
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrnVNZpnvRI

Now you've asked it may very well appear lol