Guild Wars 2

This is just for new players or maybe those few who haven’t realized this yet.

When out of combat you can use your TB skills then switch your utility skills since the TB skills don’t put the utilities on CD and TB skills also do not share a CD.

So if you are running somewhere and know you are about to fight you can switch your utility skills really quick and activate the TB skills then switch back before you actually engage in the fight.

So if you are HgH you could switch to the Elixirs you don’t use, Toss for the stack of might then switch back.
FT you can switch to and activate IA then switch back because IA last like 45 secs.
You can switch to Slick Shoes while running around if you don’t have permaswiftness build and use Super Speed.
If you are getting to a battle and see downed friendlies but like Elixir S instead of R you can switch to R and toss the res field than switch back.

I know its not really anything super useful or exciting but kinda a nice trick for prebattle planning.

note: Be carefull not to get pulled into combat with skills that you don’t like though. I only ever use this trick in PvE but if you are quick enough in WvW you can stack yourself up a little while the zerg stacks might.

If you have the tools trait line maxed out, then it reduces the tool belt skill for slick shoes considerably. However, there have been reports that people haven’t seen the actual 200% speed buff isn’t any faster than swiftness.

If that gets fixed, then you could use this for quicker travel in addition to speedy kits!

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If you have the tools trait line maxed out, then it reduces the tool belt skill for slick shoes considerably. However, there have been reports that people haven’t seen the actual 200% speed buff isn’t any faster than swiftness.

If that gets fixed, then you could use this for quicker travel in addition to speedy kits!

Yeah I do wish that was the case but with Slick Shoes TB skill Super Speed its actually just a badly worded Tooltip.
Super Speed gives you double speed while you are in combat, which is faster than swiftness in combat.

out of combat nothing makes your run speed faster than what swiftness does.