Guild Wars 2

or the other class can override this one?

cause im trying to chase an elementalist, with perma swiftness duration, and i cant seem to get them.

thanks for the answers

I think there are traits that can give you an additional speed boost, like the Elementalist’s traits that makes them faster the longer they are attuned to air magic and the 10% speed boost while in air attunement. While Swiftness is capped at 33%, these traits are not “swiftness” they are passive speed enhancements.

I think using all the speed traits plus swiftness an elementalist can get around a 60-80% speed boost in total.

*edit: and I forgot, they also have a trait for 20% more while wielding daggers too. >.< Eles can get some serious speed.

obiemvy.5632:

I think there are traits that can give you an additional speed boost, like the Elementalist’s traits that makes them faster the longer they are attuned to air magic and the 10% speed boost while in air attunement. While Swiftness is capped at 33%, these traits are not “swiftness” they are passive speed enhancements.

I think using all the speed traits plus swiftness an elementalist can get around a 60-80% speed boost in total.

*edit: and I forgot, they also have a trait for 20% more while wielding daggers too. >.< Eles can get some serious speed.

15%.

It’s
10% while attuned to air
up to 25% while attuned to air (this one ive heard is bugged and only gives 10% though)
10% with signet of air passive
and 15% with windborne dagger from the arcana trait.

Then ele has swiftness, and ride the lightning (which moves faster than even swiftness)

any other classes that has this insane speed?

(so that whenever i see them i would not dare chase them ahahah)

Thx for the correction Zeny. I couldn’t remember off the top of my head and I’m at work so I couldn’t check ;-)

Oldgrimm.8521:

any other classes that has this insane speed?

(so that whenever i see them i would not dare chase them ahahah)

I’ve heard thieves have a pretty kitten high run speed due to a passive they use. Also the stealths and the shadowsteps, just ugh, if you have to try catching a thief.

Any class can get up to 40% with 6 Runes of speed which adds an extra 7% when you have swiftness.

Also I think the Engineer might have something that lets them surpass 33% for a time.

i have an air attuned/traited ele and a thief with the “speedy” sigil,

the ele should be faster than the thief’s “25% increase/swift on dodge”

but in practise the thief is faster,

the ele speed bonuses are not adding up somewhere…

I am not sure those passive do what you think. I have not tested an elemental so I do not know that exactly but as and eng I have 10% when using unarm kit like med it and boot that are suppose to give my double speed. Also I have perma swiftness and the fastest I ever have been able to go is 33% This was tested when i run with a warrior and his banner we run side by side no matter what skills I use.

So there could be a a cap or there is a bug with my skill.

Speed bonuses do not stack. But the highest value gets used. A thief with Signet of Shadows is moving 25% faster, if they get swiftness for 33% speed boost then the swiftness overrides the signet and you move 33% faster, not 56%. But 33% is not the cap. A rune of speed increases movement speed when using swiftness by 7% I think, which would make the cap, if there is one, higher than 33.

I don’t think rune of the traveler (+5% movement speed) stacks with any signet or trait movement speed increase because of the aforementioned non stacking.

semi-related question but do signets stack with skills? the necro has a 10% passive speed signet and a 33% boost spectral walk. how do these two stack off one another?

vespers.1759:

semi-related question but do signets stack with skills? the necro has a 10% passive speed signet and a 33% boost spectral walk. how do these two stack off one another?

“A character’s movement speed can be increased or decreased via several methods. Speed is measured in units per second (u/s). Both speed buffs and debuffs do not stack, the effect with the greatest value will be used. Having Swiftness and Signet of Air active will make you move 33% faster, not 43% faster. The movement reduction while in combat will stack with movement speed debuffs.”
- http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Movement_speed

As the poster above me quoted, speed boosts do not stack. So yes +33% is the cap, unless you get a full set of “runes of ….” (can’t recall the name), in which case you’ll reach +40% everytime you have swiftness.

One exception is the Engineer’s Slick Shoes, that grants them a +100% speed boost for a few seconds.

The reason an elementalist will outrun you while you have swiftness is this: You were in combat.

according to the wiki:

“The 6th bonus for the superior rune set (+7% movement speed while using swiftness), is currently bugged and does not function. "

meaning that 40% swiftness does not exist still.

so, regardless of signets, traits or boons, 33% is the cap.

this answers what i already suspected,
even fully traited, my ele is slower overall than my thief with the 25% speed buff from Signet of Shadows.

Well foo…oh well at least I can stop using my signet of the locust, was the only thing I ever found a reason to use it for lol, but my running skills already do 33% so according to you guys im wasting a skill slot, good to know.