Guild Wars 2

Do you get the same up time with Air runes, as you do with Centaur? Centaur has a 15 second ICD (even though it says 10) And the Swiftness lasts 10 seconds. Which you can get to 15 easy enough. Is air the same?

Hi, no air have shorter swiftness upptime. What you gain for this thu is in a high crit build is more crid dmg (who scale better with higher gear lvls) and a wery strong dmg spike in terms of lightning proc, hits for 3-6 k. The proc give a superb defense vs glascannons and especialy thiefs as it hit em before they visual.

I played with air sens september, with staff blink and air runes I have no problems keep track with my team. I use cat leap + swiftness to do sprints.

/Osicat

It hits for 3-6k after the 25% nerf? Dang.

Centaur rune gives 10sec swiftness with a 12sec CD, not 15, but Air one gives the lightning, and 6sec swiftness for 10sec CD
and I like crit damage more than power, but that’s personal :P

According to the wiki and my personal experience, Centaur has a 15s cooldown unless they changed this lately.

He is probably mixing up that with the 20% swiftness duration boost, Centaur is up 12 with a cooldown of 15, Air is up 6 with a cooldown of 10.

I’ve used both. Centaur w/the included 20% boost gives 12s of uptime w/15s cooldown. I used to use it w/the 15s heal and I would always have a that 3s overlap of normal speed. I then switched to Air runes which I use w/my normal heal. So I only get 6-7s of swiftness every 20 seconds. It’s a nice addition, but the real shine of the air runes is the lightning proc. That really helps in a pinch. Plus, I quite often run w/a focus mesmer, so I still get 12s of swiftness of his temporal curtain. It can get annoying w/either rune having to hit heal every 15-20s…