Guild Wars 2

So I was running around in WvW post-patch with a staff equipped in a party with my friend, a Mesmer. I noticed two things:
- With swiftness applied, we went the same speed – even when I was in Air attunement, with Sigil of Air passive on, and 5 trait points in Air. I use to be faster than the mesmer with swiftness on both of us. Looks like that 33% movement speed cap is now strictly enforced, or something?

- My Elemental attunement bonuses (From Arcane V) affect fewer allies in a zerg, or at least I don’t see the buff render on them. Did the general patch correction “Many skills, items, and traits were applying healing to an infinite amount of targets and have now been limited to 5 targets” hit that, or am I imagining things? Trait description reads “When attuning to an element, you and all nearby allies gain…”.

Can anyone else provide anecdotes supporting/refuting my observations?

yeah just went spvp everything just seems slow now still did ok, but feel like ive been punched in the fun

With swiftness applied, we went the same speed – even when I was in Air attunement, with Sigil of Air passive on, and 5 trait points in Air. I use to be faster than the mesmer with swiftness on both of us. Looks like that 33% movement speed cap is now strictly enforced, or something?

You were never faster. Movement speed bonuses dont stack with eachother and never have, so when you had swiftness up before you moved 33% faster regardless of any other movement speed bonuses. It doesn’t add them all up and go, ‘oh, you’re total is 68%, so have fun moving at the speed of light!’.

It was fairly common knowledge that most of the traited movespeed increasing buffs were pretty pointless as a result of our ability to maintain almost perma swiftness.