Guild Wars 2

Add one second to the base swiftness given by the Elementalist elemental attunement trait when switching to air attunement. It would be a great quality of life change. (Currently it gives 5s of base swiftness. I’m asking for it to be increased to 6s of base swiftness).

With the Ride the lightning cooldown nerf and the swiftness duration lowered from the elementalist aura trait in conjunction with shocking aura, Maintaining swiftness in dagger/dagger while still using ride the lightning on the new cooldown (20s vs the old 15) is no longer possible, at least without using weird stuff like updraft or the glyph heal in air attunement.

It’s pretty meaningful when traveling. Unless you’re willing to let swiftness drop off, you’re not going to be using RTL every 20 seconds, more like every 22-23 as there’s the “global cooldown” before you can switch from an attunement after entering it, as well as the fact that you can’t RTL and then immediately leave air. You have to wait for RTL To end.

Whereas before, with shocking aura giving more swiftness, you could afford to wait the few seconds in air and RTL immediately on cooldown every time (every 15 seconds) without swiftness dropping off. To maintain perma swiftness now and still actually use RTL every 20 seconds, you likely need to fiddle with updraft or the glyph heal while in air.

And this is coming from someone that has +70% boon duration.

Old way: RTL, leave air, come back to it, wait a few seconds for cooldown, RTL. (using shocking aura and frost aura as needed).

New way: RTL, leave air, come back to it, leave air, come back to it, RTL (which actually came off cooldown a couple seconds ago). same deal with shock/frost aura.

It’s wonky.