Guild Wars 2

Movement speeds and how they interact are still a bit baffling to me…

If you have the signet or say Windborne Daggers up…the 10% move from Zephyr’s Speed doesn’t help at all does it?

Just wondering if those first 5 were just a point sink to keep us from having a lot of points to spend in better stuff. Sorry if it’s a stupid question or has been asked before.

If you have any other speed buffs on, the 10% won’t help at all. It works if you don’t have Windborne Daggers, or swiftness, or anything else buffing your speed, but much of the time it’s completely useless.

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Pretty much, though I find it useful in jumping puzzles occasionally.

ThiBash.5634:

Pretty much, though I find it useful in jumping puzzles occasionally.

Propably because that´s basicly the only palce where you notice it.

On a class with such a good access to swiftness it´s basicly non-existent trait.

thanks for the answers…figured it was the designer’s way of forcing us to spend valuable points on useless things. Yay -.-

/sigh

The first 5 is never wasted if you’re on the way to 10.

In this case, still better than Last Refuge for Thief.

WyldKat.4712:

The first 5 is never wasted if you’re on the way to 10.

In this case, still better than Last Refuge for Thief.

So true I’m glad that those first 5 will never get you killed on ele.

rabidsmiles.5926:

thanks for the answers…figured it was the designer’s way of forcing us to spend valuable points on useless things. Yay -.-

/sigh

It’s not useless if you don’t bring Elemental Attunement, I guess – but EA gives you swiftness on attune, which completely overrides the 10% benefit.

Still less terrible than Arcane Precision. We should campaign (again) to get our boon-based-damage-increase trait (currently Bountiful Power, Water 25) put into the boon-duration line like it should be. And to get something support-oriented for Water 25 (maybe even Powerful Auras, since there are auras on every weaponset and it’s really not worth taking over Cleansing Water right now – not when auras from runes and combos don’t proc the effects, and with a max of 2 weapon-based auras that will work with it).

Air 5 – vigor on crit
Arcana 25 – as cheese suggested
water 25 – chance to freeze on hit in aoe of about 240 (no critical)

off topic but last refuge has saved me plently times on my shadow arts d/d thief.