Guild Wars 2

How come on my War swiftness abilities stack (warhorn/rage signet) but on guardian they don’t (retreat/staff)?

skill aoe buffs stack
ground target buffs(like staff) do not stack and only apply when the buff is not up(to avoid infinity stacks)

easy fix would be to only apply buff on first enter ground targets but than stack(event: “trigger on first enter”)

Yeah thing is if retreats is down <8s it doesn’t even fill it to 8s for the staff one. Just very annoying.

btw the current:
WHILE (in trigger) → IF (boon not up) THAN buff boon(~0.5sec check,no stacking)
cost a lot more server performance than a:
IF NOT (first enter trigger) THAN early exit ELSE buff boon(stacks)
(a lot less checks and only a in trigger list is needed,does not remove entry on exit or only with a timer)

at least save your selfs and retreat stuck nicelly. im with 2xboon duration ( and 1x might) i go down to 9’’ before im out of swiftness and wait for CD.