Guild Wars 2

So with +60% boon duration I can pretty much maintain permanent swiftness, and I decided today to try swifting a dolyak up to 10 minutes.

I noticed, however, that I couldn’t seem to get the stack up much further than 1m 35s. I maintained this for over a minute before the “seconds” left on the stack started slipping off so quickly that I couldn’t keep up.

A couple other people I spoke to have also noticed this. Does anyone know if ANet, undoubtedly seeking to bury a stake deep into the heart of boon builds, intentionally included some form of boon decay to entirely subvert the reason people stack boon duration? Or is this just something they put on dolyaks… also to subvert people stacking boon duration?

There was something in the patch notes about reducing stacks to a maximum of five, instead of the 25 you could regularly get before. Wonder if it affects that too?

According to the wiki, the only stack limitation that seems to be in place for swiftness is the standard 25-stack maximum. The patch notes don’t seem to indicate anything else.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Effect_stacking
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-September-17-2013

Ah I know where I read it, was in the “leaked” notes:

Alll duration stacking boons(Aegis, Fury, protection, Regeneration, Retaliation, Swiftness, and Vigor) and conditions(Blind, Burning, Chilled, Cripple, immobilze(now stacks duration), and Poison) now stack to a maximum of 5 times.

It’s not in the official patch notes though, so this shouldn’t be there …. But?

Jayne.9251:

Ah I know where I read it, was in the “leaked” notes:

Alll duration stacking boons(Aegis, Fury, protection, Regeneration, Retaliation, Swiftness, and Vigor) and conditions(Blind, Burning, Chilled, Cripple, immobilze(now stacks duration), and Poison) now stack to a maximum of 5 times.

It’s not in the official patch notes though, so this shouldn’t be there …. But?

1) kitten that bullkitten. That is a really, really stupid way to kill some of the efficiency of condition spamming.
2) This would only explain the issue if the stacks were not superseded by a more recently cast one (i.e. a stack that has 5 seconds left not being replaced by a new one that comes in with a full 15 second duration), which would be even more bullkitten.

edit: kitten internet issues caused this post to originally be posted incomplete

I’ve noticed this problem when escorting Doly’s too. After the first few seconds swiftness seems to drain off a doly far faster than it should. Is this meant to be happening with dolys?