Does anyone actually use Sigils?

I tried one once. Found it to be an active detriment to my playstyle.

I have no idea why they exist instead of the perfectly fine armor runes from the previous game.

Although I believe the drawback is that barriers decay at a fixed percentage rate, so with more barrier you need to do more damage to keep refilling it.

The sigils are quite interesting. Like some of the special items, they're mostly useless for most characters, but for certain builds some of them can be advantageous.

As a Knight Enchanter you'd just need the Fade Shield passive and keep constantly attacking and you'd still be good.

This vid shows my Arcane Warrior. Yes, I know it's MP, but the Fade Shield passive works the same way there as it does in SP

Note: There are no Sigils in MP, but I was wearing the the Storm Pact Belt. 




All you need to do, is keep attacking and your Barrier stays up. 

I know, it's not easy being a console peasant next to me, who owns a PC that can barely run DA:I, and not be jealous. 

Isn't it about time to upgrade? There are a lot of ex-corporate i5s and i7s floating around in the used channels. You can pick one up for well under $200, and then pop in your existing vidcard. Or get a 750ti or some such if that's a problem too.

Some interesting possibilities here:

some questions on how the calculations are done:
if I have 200 armor and wear the Tusket sigil (-100% armor) is my armor now zero?

general question does the percentage number multiply or add, i.e., if I have some stat at 20%, and the sigil increases that 10%, does that mean 22% or 30%

1) Sigil of the Chevalier still doesn't look like a good idea: 15% increase in front armor ain't that impressive, and -50% all other armor WILL be a problem when you ranged fighters get surrounded, and they will get surrounded occasionally!
2) Sigil of the Bronto : does seem like a good idea for a warrior, likely try it. Could be a problem against magical attacks though
3) Sigil of the Deepstalker: questions here: a) Are ranged attacks (arrow/bolt/spell) always considered Flanking attacks, or only if from the side/back of the particular enemy being targeted???
4) Sigil of the Golem questions again: ZERO Critical chance?? Doesn't everybody have some critical chance, which can be increased by armor/weapons
5) Sigil of the Giant: -100% Cooldown times. GREAT, that means ZERO cooldown times

A few of the others would be useful for killing specific dragons, i.e. +Fire, +Spirit. +Cold; but then you'd need to remove them

That's why I suggested just grabbing one of the used corporate machines.

How'd you get ripped off on that new PC, anyway? €600 should have got you more power than DAI would need.