Guild Wars 2

I use Ranger/Signet of the Hunt and am used to running 25% faster.
After the update I seem to be plodding along… Anyone else notice that?
Or is it that I took Volunteer’s Blessing [moved out of an empty map] which gives only 15% and now I’m running 15% rather than 25% faster? Er.. Nope that’s not it. VB timed out and I’m still slogging along.

Anybody else notice that their speed buffs are nerfed?
- ww

After the update last night almost everyone in my guild running wvw was complaining that everything was very laggy and felt unresponsive.

Feeling and actually slowing down are two different things. Perhaps did you adjust your camera at all? Generally speaking the lower you are to the ground the “faster” you feel and the higher you are the “slower” you feel. An Asura feels fast, a Norn feels slow.

nope. No camera changes… I’m sorry I didn’t do a video capture of a fixed distance so I could time it before and now. But of course, now is too late. Maybe someone can find a video that does show running over a known distance and repeat it now.

BTW, even my Superior Sigil of Speed – 33% speed boost on kills that stacks – does not seem to be working. It’s like all speed boosts are nerfed. I show the speed trails behind my character, but am not running faster.
- ww

Jerus.4350:

Feeling and actually slowing down are two different things. Perhaps did you adjust your camera at all? Generally speaking the lower you are to the ground the “faster” you feel and the higher you are the “slower” you feel. An Asura feels fast, a Norn feels slow.

For myself and I’m going to assume everyone else in my guild, no. We downloaded the patch, relogged to wvw and everything was lagging.

I just did some swimming and running video captures, with and without Signet of the Hunt and voila… On land the Signet has been Nerfed.

Methodology: Capture video over a fixed course. Both ways. Watch out for any other folks giving you a speed boost or other buff and eliminate those takes. Run/ Swim with and without Signet of the Hunt – 25% boost. Clip video and then use video editor to measure length of clip. I’m using Corel Video Studio Pro btw.

Running a fixed course I found:
Swimming a between two fixed points I found a 27% difference [ within margin of error obviously] in speed. 7.1 sec with the Signet and 9.03 sec without.
On land I found no difference in running a 14 sec course. I ran / swam the courses both ways several times to avoid sampling error.

It’s not lag, it’s nerffing the running speed boost. Swimming works fine. Looks like something left over from April Fool.
- ww