Does Symbol of Swiftness' Swiftness Stack?

Does Symbol of Swiftness' Swiftness Stack?

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Posted by: Svarty.8019

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Is it just me, or does Symbol of Swiftness’ Swiftness fail to stack duration with other Swiftness?

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Posted by: tanshiniza.8629

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If you already have Swiftness then the symbol will just add 1 second per tick onto the duration.

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Posted by: Svarty.8019

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If you already have Swiftness then the symbol will just add 1 second per tick onto the duration.

That’s not what the tooltip says.

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Posted by: tanshiniza.8629

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If you already have Swiftness then the symbol will just add 1 second per tick onto the duration.

That’s not what the tooltip says.

Tooltip says a lot of things doesn’t mean it’s right which is why Anet are always fixing tooltip bugs.

I am telling you what it does from experience as in playing a Guardian for 1000+ hours

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Posted by: OptimusPrimo.9547

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If you already have Swiftness then the symbol will just add 1 second per tick onto the duration.

This is correct.

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Posted by: Lonewolf Kai.3682

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If you already have Swiftness then the symbol will just add 1 second per tick onto the duration.

I knew it did this for the Staff symbol, but didn’t realize it does this with your shouts too. When I’m getting around, I use SY! and Retreat! consecutively. I usuallyl try to time it for when Swiftness is about to timeout, but I thought there were times I didn’t wait until the duration was completely gone from the first shout but still get the full duration of the next shout if used.

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Posted by: tanshiniza.8629

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To make the most of Staff Symbol wait until your swiftness has run out before activating it again.

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Posted by: ArtemisEntreri.4138

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To make the most of Staff Symbol wait until your swiftness has run out before activating it again.

Tanshiniza has it right. Pop Symbol of Swiftness and after you leave the symbol, then use SY! and Retreat!. This will grant you 38+ seconds of swiftness.

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Posted by: Lonewolf Kai.3682

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To make the most of Staff Symbol wait until your swiftness has run out before activating it again.

Tanshiniza has it right. Pop Symbol of Swiftness and after you leave the symbol, then use SY! and Retreat!. This will grant you 38+ seconds of swiftness.

But this counters what Tanshiniza said in that these two shouts don’t stack, they only add 1 second.

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Posted by: styx.7294

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This and mesmer focus 4 don’t stack swiftness like everything else to keep people from running back and forth to get really long swiftness buffs.

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Posted by: tanshiniza.8629

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To make the most of Staff Symbol wait until your swiftness has run out before activating it again.

Tanshiniza has it right. Pop Symbol of Swiftness and after you leave the symbol, then use SY! and Retreat!. This will grant you 38+ seconds of swiftness.

But this counters what Tanshiniza said in that these two shouts don’t stack, they only add 1 second.

When did I say anything about shouts? quote the part please because I’ve looked through myself and I’ve only talked about Symbol of Swiftness.

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Posted by: Aeolus.3615

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swiftness via symbol and shouts do not combine well, if u keep insisting of trying to stack them sometimes boon gets removed or u cant stack swiftness, being with the symbol ot shout.

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Posted by: styx.7294

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I’m pretty sure if you get swiftness from symbol you can stack any non-symbol, non-mesmer focus swiftness on it.

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Posted by: tanshiniza.8629

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I’m pretty sure if you get swiftness from symbol you can stack any non-symbol, non-mesmer focus swiftness on it.

This is true. Only the Symbol and the Mesmer focus swiftness do not stack full durations but rather apply 1 second extra onto any existing Swiftness. To get the most use out of these wait until swiftness runs out to apply them.

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Posted by: Lonewolf Kai.3682

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To make the most of Staff Symbol wait until your swiftness has run out before activating it again.

Tanshiniza has it right. Pop Symbol of Swiftness and after you leave the symbol, then use SY! and Retreat!. This will grant you 38+ seconds of swiftness.

But this counters what Tanshiniza said in that these two shouts don’t stack, they only add 1 second.

When did I say anything about shouts? quote the part please because I’ve looked through myself and I’ve only talked about Symbol of Swiftness.

Whoops!! This is what happens when the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. My mistake in misunderstanding. I was taking what you meant as the Symbol and the Swiftness buff as being the same. Just ignore my last few posts here.

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