Guild Wars 2

Zephyr’s speed: Move 10% faster while attuned to air.

This may as well say “Placeholder”. If an elementalist is built to use lots of swiftness, as most builds do, this is useless. For those that don’t, if they care about movement speed they have a 25% run speed signet of air, which doesn’t stack with this.

To top it off, it’s just in air attunement to boot. It’d be useless even if it was just “move 10% faster” with no attunement requirement.

Give elementalists something that’s useful in this slot instead. This might be one of the few traits in the game actually worse than that Necromancer jagged horror one.

Are you actually certain it doesn’t stack? I will accept that it is super pointless if it doesn’t, and as such was under the impression it had to stack because who would actually make something like that otherwise.

Movement speed buffs don’t stack; the most potent overrides the rest.

i.e applying Swiftness (33%) with Signet of Air (25%) results in a 33% movement speed buff.

But hey, 10% as a 5 Trait is alright. Warriors got something similar (10% with melee weapons) but it is a 10 point Trait instead. At least yours is “free”, so to speak.

Seen as they do not stack, I would indeed love to get something useful instead. (It’s a waste of a minor trait I guess)

Oglaf.1074:

Movement speed buffs don’t stack; the most potent overrides the rest.

i.e applying Swiftness (33%) with Signet of Air (25%) results in a 33% movement speed buff.

But hey, 10% as a 5 Trait is alright. Warriors got something similar (10% with melee weapons) but it is a 10 point Trait instead. At least yours is “free”, so to speak.

No, it’s not alright at all.

If it was a 10 point trait, we could do the same thing everyone else does with bad traits…and just not take it and pick something useful instead.

Can’t do that here, any ele going into the air tree has to take this one which basically is the same as nothing at all.

There is no way that it’s worse than Reanimator.
Yeah it’s useless, but Reanimator does more harm than good most of the time, while the air one just sits there doing nothing.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Are you actually certain it doesn’t stack? I will accept that it is super pointless if it doesn’t, and as such was under the impression it had to stack because who would actually make something like that otherwise.

Definitely doesn’t stack. Whatever your fastest movement bonus active is, is what you get. They don’t add up.

And yeah you’ve got it right. “Who would actually make something like that?”. That’s how I feel about it.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

There is no way that it’s worse than Reanimator.
Yeah it’s useless, but Reanimator does more harm than good most of the time, while the air one just sits there doing nothing.

Well, go make a thread about changing reanimator then. No need to post about it here

Fred Fargone.3127:

gimmethegepgun.1284:

There is no way that it’s worse than Reanimator.
Yeah it’s useless, but Reanimator does more harm than good most of the time, while the air one just sits there doing nothing.

Well, go make a thread about changing reanimator then. No need to post about it here

Actually I brought it up because the OP claimed that it might be worse than Reanimator. It’s not. Not by a long shot.

It wouldn’t be so bad of a trait if there weren’t a couple chosen traits that directly override it, one of which is in the air line itself.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Fred Fargone.3127:

gimmethegepgun.1284:

There is no way that it’s worse than Reanimator.
Yeah it’s useless, but Reanimator does more harm than good most of the time, while the air one just sits there doing nothing.

Well, go make a thread about changing reanimator then. No need to post about it here

Actually I brought it up because the OP claimed that it might be worse than Reanimator. It’s not. Not by a long shot.

Oh, you are right, he just didn’t use the proper name so I was confused. My apologies.