Guild Wars 2

So I recently pulled my Necro and Ele out again. Both got the the buff to their movment speed Signets macking it very noticeble when you use them. But when I am on my ele and use the signet and use swiftness on top of it it dosn’t seem to have any effect. It this intentional or a bug?

Also I ran some test and it seems that swiftness is actually slower then the signets. Which is weirde. After all swiftness is supposed to give 33% movmentspeed increase and the signets only 25%.

this still falls within the lines of the stated wiki rules, but adjusts the mention of a cap.

Only one speed enhancement will be taken into consideration and the highest one will be selected. Out of the list of movement speed enhancements you have a range from 5% to 50%.

In general the highest boon you can get is swiftness which is 33% which is why it must have been thought to be the cap.

A majority of the traits that give movement speed are limited to bursts of speed of 25% with the exception of thieves who can reach 50% when stealthed.

Lastley, Superior Rune of Speed gives 7% runspeed when using swiftness.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Speed

Now here is the possible bug. Can it be confirmed that the 33% from swiftness is correctly combining with the 7% from the rune bonus which should give 40% runspeed.

Easy test on this is to have two people race one with the rune and one without and they are both given swiftness.

For practical applications though, 33% is the norm.

This was asked earlier in another way, but the short answer was no, it takes the highest run speed buff and they do not stack. Additionally there is a cap of 33% runspeed.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Movement_speed

If they did stack, either additively or multiplicatively, it’d just be ridiculously OP against those who couldn’t in PvP. As is I was surprised by the boost to 25% for signets.

Actually the max run speed afaik is 50%. This is only for thieves traited in
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fleet_Shadow

KrakenAZ.9367:

If they did stack, either additively or multiplicatively, it’d just be ridiculously OP against those who couldn’t in PvP. As is I was surprised by the boost to 25% for signets.

Not just signets, just about every traited speed boost went from 10/15 up to 25% as well. On one hand, I can see this makes sense due to how a 10% speed boost probably won’t make it on many players list of important buffs. But on the other hand, it makes Swiftness a lot less spectacular. Although, that might not necessarily be a bad thing.