Guild Wars 2

I just wanted to give some praise to a very inexpensive and useful sigil: Sigil of Speed. On kill you get (unmodified) 20 seconds of swiftness for the superior version. It’s currently going for under 7s on the Trading Post.

I’ve read many complaints/observations about how movement-impaired the guardian class is. I can’t agree more. Often the solution suggested is to utilize a weapon-swap staff Symbol of Swiftness.

I’ve found that with just killing the usual handful of trash mobs on the map, I’m rarely without swiftness, and often I’m keeping up anywhere between 1.5 to 3.5 minutes’ worth.

The main drawback is, of course, you have to give up a sigil slot that could otherwise be dedicated to damage, support, etc. The other drawback of needing to kill a mob to gain the benefit is one I haven’t really experienced: I always have to kill trash mobs no matter where I go.

If you can afford to give up the sigil slot, I highly recommend you give this sigil a try.

As it probably matters to the reader, I mostly do PVE and dabble in WvW. I wouldn’t know if this sigil is as useful in PvP.

Thanx for taking the time to read this,

~J

EphemeralWallaby.7643:

I just wanted to give some praise to a very inexpensive and useful sigil: Sigil of Speed. On kill you get (unmodified) 20 seconds of swiftness for the superior version. It’s currently going for under 7s on the Trading Post.

I’ve read many complaints/observations about how movement-impaired the guardian class is. I can’t agree more. Often the solution suggested is to utilize a weapon-swap staff Symbol of Swiftness.

I’ve found that with just killing the usual handful of trash mobs on the map, I’m rarely without swiftness, and often I’m keeping up anywhere between 1.5 to 3.5 minutes’ worth.

The main drawback is, of course, you have to give up a sigil slot that could otherwise be dedicated to damage, support, etc. The other drawback of needing to kill a mob to gain the benefit is one I haven’t really experienced: I always have to kill trash mobs no matter where I go.

If you can afford to give up the sigil slot, I highly recommend you give this sigil a try.

As it probably matters to the reader, I mostly do PVE and dabble in WvW. I wouldn’t know if this sigil is as useful in PvP.

Thanx for taking the time to read this,

~J

It’s not too useful in wvw. Since there’s a few seconds delay after each battle in which you still count as “being in battle” which means your base movement is nerfed. So having swiftness based on a nerfed movement base doesn’t actually help you and by the time you exit out of battle state your swiftness would’ve worn off.

try it on a thief. a similar trait exists in acrobatics.