Guild Wars 2

It seem very crippling to me, since ANet clearly wanted Superspeed to be a scrapper thing. Alacrity is much more powerful and it stacks all right.

Because Anet dont care about the scrapper mechanics. I thought that was obvious by now?

They have proven that with every single nerf and they keep proving it by not fixing stuff or treating the scrapper the same as their lovechild DH with replacements instead of removals.

TBH, we don’t even have that much access to Superspeed, just 2 skills and a passive for having access to superspeed? that’s very lacking, but i totally agree, if stacking swiftness is totally ook, why suprespeed isn’t?

@Ivantreil I would respectfully disagree. A scrapper engineer has more ways to grant superspeed than any other class, and many of those effects are group buffs. In addition to their core game abilities which grant superspeed (Streamlined Kits trait from the Tools line and the toolbelt for the now-nerfed Slick Shoes) a scrapper has access to the following:

- 3 seconds for group when reviving allies (cooldown 10 secs).
- 3 seconds for group after using a leap/blast finisher in a lightning field via Shocking Speed trait (cooldown 10 seconds).
- 3 seconds for group via Bypass Coating toolbelt of the Blast Gyro (base cooldown 30 seconds).
and most significantly:
- 2 seconds for group whenever a gyro is destroyed (no cooldown).

So as you can see because a scrapper with the right traits can trigger little bursts of superspeed very often they have quite a lot to gain from being able to stack superspeed.

Most particularly, consider that if an engineer using the above abilities and Rapid Regeneration could stack 7+ seconds of superspeed, and then turtle up behind some of the engineer’s chainable block skills (e.g. hammer 4, Gear Shield, Elixir S and traited Elixir S) for that amount of time, they could recover 3000+ damage on top of other sources of health regen.

Or consider that a team of two or more superspeed scrappers working together could provide continuous superspeed for an entire group and enjoy 400+ health regen per second from the trait.

As much as one might argue that it is not worth specialising in superspeed as a scrapper one must contend both that it is possible and that being able to stack superspeed would make the option more attractive, particularly in multi-scrapper groups.

Its not a boon also eng super speed is a very low duration where ele is much longer so its less of an eng problem more of an ele problem. Its would also get silly eng having perma super speed.