Guild Wars 2

I watched the live stream yesterday and was overjoyed when they said SoI will grant passive swiftness. I took this to mean perma swiftness when the signet is chosen, and was thinking great I can now experiment with rune builds rather than running Travelers all the time.

But then I looked at the signet’s description from the live feed pics, and remembered that this signet already provides passive swiftness at a 1/8 random chance every 10 secs. The signet’s description from the live feed is the same as the current one in-game. Maybe the new description wasn’t added yet?

I’m guessing they mean non-random passive swiftness, with the random swiftness being removed, but it would be nice to get some clarification on this.

Ok I may be wrong but if we do get passive swiftness won’t that makes us faster than everyone else?
every other class (except guardian) gets 25% but swiftness is 33%
am I missing something here?

Sweeps.3059:

Ok I may be wrong but if we do get passive swiftness won’t that makes us faster than everyone else?
every other class (except guardian) gets 25% but swiftness is 33%
am I missing something here?

Good question. But I was more interested in whether they are giving us perma swiftness with the signet or is it still going to be random.

I think it sounds like it will be permanently if we have it equipped and them will randomly 1 other boon every 10

Sweeps.3059:

Ok I may be wrong but if we do get passive swiftness won’t that makes us faster than everyone else?
every other class (except guardian) gets 25% but swiftness is 33%
am I missing something here?

Mesmers could already do that via Runes of the Centaur. Permanent swiftness has also always been available to Engineers using Speedy Kits.

In groups, constant swiftness is very easy to get already.

Sweeps.3059:

Ok I may be wrong but if we do get passive swiftness won’t that makes us faster than everyone else?
every other class (except guardian) gets 25% but swiftness is 33%
am I missing something here?

Several other classes can get permanent swiftness already with varying degrees of investment, some just as easy as this idea, and have several leaps or charges forward to make them even faster.

They said they’re thinking about doing this. It definitely didn’t sound like a sure thing, we’ll see.

I believe the intention was that for each tick you will get swiftness and one other random boon as opposed to a permanent swiftness bonus.

Would just be easier and cause much less headaches to just have 25% run speed be a passive in addition to the random boons.

alanis.6094:

Would just be easier and cause much less headaches to just have 25% run speed be a passive in addition to the random boons.

Would be worse.

Much worse. 25% instead of 33%, wouldn’t be able to proc “while booned” effects or share it with others.