Guild Wars 2

Why D/D swiftness is capped at 30 or something like that while other profession can stack minutes of swiftness?

Notice that this was a stealth nerf that started many Patches ago….to the point that today any swiftness won t stack past 30 seconds or less.

What i can t get is how on D/D even healing skills, traits etc won t let you pass those 30 sec while with staff you can get more than 1 min with the same skills…..

LordByron.8369:

Why D/D swiftness is capped at 30 or something like that while other profession can stack minutes of swiftness?

Notice that this was a stealth nerf that started many Patches ago….to the point that today any swiftness won t stack past 30 seconds or less.

What i can t get is how on D/D even healing skills, traits etc won t let you pass those 30 sec while with staff you can get more than 1 min with the same skills…..

Huh? I’ve gotten over 30 seconds of swiftness before. You talking about generated yourself?

While we’re at it, why does staff have the only lightning field in the game?

ps: trident and lightning hammer doesn’t count.

Why Lava Field doesn’t burn huh?.

try this…
Equip staff…stack 1 min+ swiftness and use Glyph of elemental armony while in air.

Equip D/D, reach your beloved 30 sec swiftness or just use the guardian swiftness to reach 1 min…

Use glyph of elemental harmony….

Second case you won t get any swiftness added.

Try to reach swiftness cap with D/D combos and staff combos by yourself….see the difference.

I still have to test it properly but i m quite convinced they overdo with D/D swiftness stack..

(i play ele since release and i admit in the past was able to stack up to 30 min swiftness, then drop to 30, then reverted to 2 mins, then back to 30….none of that was EVER mentioned in patchnotes….i have yet to test after last patch, but Yesterday i noticed glyph wasn t giving me any swiftness when i had 50 sec obtained by a guard with D/D equipped, while i usually get past 1 min with staff).

LordByron.8369:

try this…
Equip staff…stack 1 min+ swiftness and use Glyph of elemental armony while in air.

Equip D/D, reach your beloved 30 sec swiftness or just use the guardian swiftness to reach 1 min…

Use glyph of elemental harmony….

Second case you won t get any swiftness added.

Try to reach swiftness cap with D/D combos and staff combos by yourself….see the difference.

I still have to test it properly but i m quite convinced they overdo with D/D swiftness stack..

(i play ele since release and i admit in the past was able to stack up to 30 min swiftness, then drop to 30, then reverted to 2 mins, then back to 30….none of that was EVER mentioned in patchnotes….i have yet to test after last patch, but Yesterday i noticed glyph wasn t giving me any swiftness when i had 50 sec obtained by a guard with D/D equipped, while i usually get past 1 min with staff).

Here’s a short explanation:

D/D eles stack Swiftness with short durations and Guardians do exactly the same. The problem is you can only stack Swiftness up to 9 times.

“Boons are limited to a maximum of 9 stacks, with the exceptions of Retaliation and Stability. The intensity (duration) of each stack is irrelevant.”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Effect_stacking

Staff eles on the other hand stack Swiftness with long durations (10 secs and more). That’s why you can get more than 1 min of Swiftness.

I hope this helps.

still not sold..

As i said in the past i could get more and this is quite recent.

Also i run +60% boon duration in www (D/D) and when i try to stack in PvE with 30% and staff i get more….

At least you gave me some way to test it…

2 other things which come to my mind:

- people used to run full Boon Duration (45% runes + 30% 30 Arcana + sometimes even buff food)
- Shocking Aura + Zephyr’s Boon used to give 10 sec boons instead of 5 secs which was fixed a few months ago

Other than that I’m not sure what could cause a 30 sec Swiftness cap.

This totally reminds me of this recent bug thread (it even has red responses!)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Swiftness-Bug-when-40s