Guild Wars 2

Basically what the title asks. Now that there’s finally an easier way to get swiftness on a mesmer, is there anyway to bring it up to 100% uptime rather than the current once every other 5 seconds?

A Focus, perhaps.

Edit: I’ve just tested and it’s not ideal, if you pass through the curtain and the Signet activates the Swiftness right before you won’t get it at all, just as it is with other Swiftness but more unpredictable.

Does the focus 4 still not give you swiftness if you already have it? It should work with pack runes, but thats still tremendously awkward and annoying in my opinion.

i use heal mantra and centaur runes, dunno about a signet

Well timed focus + signet.

Or even better, staff guard + SoI. Before any fight ask the staff guard to empower you, then activate the signet to get instant 24 might stacks. Pretty easy to perform.

Zmodd.5427:

A Focus, perhaps.

Edit: I’ve just tested and it’s not ideal, if you pass through the curtain and the Signet activates the Swiftness right before you won’t get it at all, just as it is with other Swiftness but more unpredictable.

So basically it’s still a hassle to try and get 100% uptime on swiftness.

I thought ANet was fixing that for mesmers?

Not getting swiftness from focus 4 if you have swiftness from Signet of Inspiration active either. I’m guessing this is a bug.

Bloodgruve.6038:

Not getting swiftness from focus 4 if you have swiftness from Signet of Inspiration active either. I’m guessing this is a bug.

That’s not a bug, just willfully broken functionality. Because Temporal Curtain is a field that grants Swiftness, it’s not allowed to stack or people would repeatedly cross through it again and again to build up Swiftness.

This, of course, makes it by far the worst Swiftness source in the game, but despite it being like this since launch, they’ve refused to rework the skill in some way to get around the issue, and here it is screwing us over again.

Either give us sustainable Swiftness on the signet alone, like you had originally been planning to, or finally do something about Temporal Curtain, please.

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

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Is it a field thing or a Temporal Curtain thing? Guards can drop their symbol and gain swiftness if they already have a source of swiftness. IIRC we could add duration going through multiple Curtains just not the same one?

Bloodgruve.6038:

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

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Is it a field thing or a Temporal Curtain thing? Guards can drop their symbol and gain swiftness if they already have a source of swiftness.

If you phrase it like that, it’s a Temporal Curtain thing. It’s because of the run-through nature of the skill, as mentioned. There are a million ways the skill could be altered to fix the problem, but nope, still broken after three years, on purpose.

Still dont understand how they can’t code it in a way so that if you ran through the curtain it flags you so that you can’t get swiftness from it til the AoE expires or something like that. Lazy…