Guild Wars 2

If you run in a proper zerg, stacking swiftness means your classes don’t have to waste a trait slot or a skill slot for 25% movespeed, or use longer ability cooldowns for permanent swiftness. That’s the point of guardians using their 12-15 second CD symbol and warriors using their 12-15 second CD warhorn cooldowns for group swiftness.

Again, I don’t understand how this is difficult for you to understand.

Stormcrow.7513:

Just play warrior you can run forever

All aboard the hambow train.

I think the better idea is let everyone have the 25% movement as standard and let swiftness be that extra boost.

Astral Projections.7320:

bigmonto.4215:

There is a 25% percent speed boost available to everyone. Some get it from traits, some from utilities others from runes. This is call a trade-off.

True.

Some get speed by tying up a utility slot instead of using another one.
Some get speed by using a specific weapon instead of using another one.
Some get speed by investing into a trait line to get this instead of using another one.
Some get speed by spending over 40 gold.

Somehow when ANet talked about build diversity, this wasn’t one of the ones I though of.

One of these things is not like the others.

Tman.6349:

Let me get a show of hands from any professions other than guardian, mesmer, and maybe necro, that wouldn’t be able to get around on the battlefield without guardians spamming symbols of swiftness.

as a ranger, I wouldn’t be able to keep up with the zerg effectively without guardian symbols.

actually on-topic, I’d be ok if every class had 25% speed OOC, but IIC the speed boost is part of profession diversity. It’s like complaining because a certain class has 1 more leap than you