Guild Wars 2

Hi.

This is going to be a really short little idea/question/whatchamacallit.

I’m not going on the road of ‘Other classes get this and that’ yadayada, but still. How come the Mesmer skill Temporal Curtain doesn’t stack at all with other skills that grant swiftness, is this working as intended or should it get some rework?

Personally it doesn’t ruin my day when I lay a temporal curtain and then someone blows into their mighty horn that also gives me swiftness, leaving me only to sigh and rub my eyebrows out of slight frustration.

Please consider if at all possible enabling it to stack with other abilities.

yeah this has never made sense to me. i doubt there would be any drawbacks to making the swiftness stack.

i think this is a bug, and should be fixed.

it has been 2 years.

sadly that is working as intended
running back and forth through a wall to stack swiftness for some reason isn’t the same as standing in a symbol
however if they change this skill they will probably will have to do the same to spectral wall or maybe that is their thoughts

It’s either that or a lower swiftness duration.

Tadsoul.6951:

sadly that is working as intended
running back and forth through a wall to stack swiftness for some reason isn’t the same as standing in a symbol
however if they change this skill they will probably will have to do the same to spectral wall or maybe that is their thoughts

Spectral wall also doesn’t allow you to run back and forth through it to stack it’s boon. Not sure if it stacks with other sources of protection, though.

But that’s why it works that way, so you can’t just stack obscene amounts of a boon.

Just make it give like 5 seconds of superspeed if you already have swiftness. =P

Roe.3679:

Tadsoul.6951:

sadly that is working as intended
running back and forth through a wall to stack swiftness for some reason isn’t the same as standing in a symbol
however if they change this skill they will probably will have to do the same to spectral wall or maybe that is their thoughts

Spectral wall also doesn’t allow you to run back and forth through it to stack it’s boon. Not sure if it stacks with other sources of protection, though.

But that’s why it works that way, so you can’t just stack obscene amounts of a boon.

Just seems like a really lazy implementation. Surely it would be possible to give it an internal cooldown to circumvent this problem.

Yeah, ANet fixed an abuse of super-stacking swiftness on Temporal Curtain. Would have fixed mesmer mobility people complain about, but… y’know, it’s not supposed to be one of our strengths. Still, I’d prefer something like a “1-per-person” kind of fix.

If its non stacking feature is to never be changed, Anet should at least update the tooltip to say it does not provide swiftness if you already have it.

This is an actual source of confusion for new players and should have been addressed along with the NPE.

Dondagora.9645:

Yeah, ANet fixed an abuse of super-stacking swiftness on Temporal Curtain. Would have fixed mesmer mobility people complain about, but… y’know, it’s not supposed to be one of our strengths. Still, I’d prefer something like a “1-per-person” kind of fix.

…What?

The OP wants Temporal Curtain to stack with other applications of swiftness, not with itself. All other applications of swiftness stack with each other (not to say that they all stack with themselves), so why shouldn’t Temporal Curtain? As it stands now, Temporal Curtain can only stack with other sources of swiftness if it’s the first application; that just isn’t fair.