Guild Wars 2

Does this work like a speed buff (swiftness takes precedent, making it useless) or is it just lowering your movement penalty by 10% (so you’d go something like 13% faster in combat with swiftness than out of combat without swiftness)?

Just trying to decide if it’s worth the points or not.

Only the highest speed buff counts, so you will only have +33% speed; you can get up to +40% by using the Speed rune (if I remember the name correctly).
However that’s still not enough to offset the combat speed penalty because 0.7*1.4 = 0.98.

So it is considered a buff then? I know with buffs the highest takes precedent over the rest, I was just thinking that if it was implemented as a lower movement penalty rather than a movement buff on top of the penalty, it might have worked differently.

Oh well. I’ll add that to the list of ‘why would I ever want this?’ traits then.