Guild Wars 2

I’ve noticed when other mesmers or myself use Temporal Curtain, the boon duration of Swiftness doesn’t stack like other skills. I even have to wait for my swiftness(from TC) to run out before I cast it again.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known issue?

It was the decided fix back around beta or launch to solve the matter of players using it to stack up long swiftness buffs (though I could be misremembering that with guardian’s staff). I personally wish it would at least refresh/replace the existing swiftness, the way some other pulsing buffs handle it. It’s rather annoying when you screw up and use it with a couple second swiftness still up.

Agreed, for me it’s labeled a bandaid, not a fix even though they stuck with it.

It seems really silly that our only practical access to swiftness functions this way. Especially because all kinds of shouts and warhorn skills all stack up huge amounts of swiftness…why wouldn’t they just reduce the number of people it affects?

Also, this kind of leads me into a side-rant about mesmer. I really didn’t enjoy my mesmer in pve because it seems like so much of the class is wasted on NPCs, however I LOVE playing it in WvW. The issue is that every(literally every one) other class has better options for swiftness or signets/traits that increase speed. We have blink, and I like that skill, but I feel so chained to Temp Curtain that I can’t equip other offhand weapons that I would like to try out in WvW. Even then, a lot of mesmers are using Centaur runes just to get around better. I’d like to have more mobility options.

If your not running focus then it is almost mandatory that you have to run Runes of Air or Centaur. I agree with you that it is stupid that Mesmers have to function this way, especially for those of us that do not like to run the focus. I hope that anet will fix this with some of the new weapons or skills they will be releasing. Heres hoping to a swiftness ethereal field!

Zindrix.1750:

It seems really silly that our only practical access to swiftness functions this way. Especially because all kinds of shouts and warhorn skills all stack up huge amounts of swiftness…why wouldn’t they just reduce the number of people it affects?

Also, this kind of leads me into a side-rant about mesmer. I really didn’t enjoy my mesmer in pve because it seems like so much of the class is wasted on NPCs, however I LOVE playing it in WvW. The issue is that every(literally every one) other class has better options for swiftness or signets/traits that increase speed. We have blink, and I like that skill, but I feel so chained to Temp Curtain that I can’t equip other offhand weapons that I would like to try out in WvW. Even then, a lot of mesmers are using Centaur runes just to get around better. I’d like to have more mobility options.

The issue with temp curtain isn’t the number of people it affects, it’s that it lasts for a certain duration, and grants swiftness as people pass through it. In the past, people could run in circles through one curtain, to get tons of swiftness. That was deemed OP. A zerg still can achieve perma-swiftness with some teamwork, but the idea of one skill from one player granting permaswiftness to a group was too powerful. The appropriate fix would be for each curtain to only grant swiftness once to each player. A quick and dirty version of this would be to put an internal (per player) cooldown on how often you can be affected by temporal curtain (maybe 1x/5 seconds).

The quick and dirty fix for the guardian symbol, was that with each pulse it would only give 1 second of swiftness, if you already had swiftness…that may have worked ok for temporal curtain too…sure you could buy a few extra seconds of swiftness by running in circles, but you’d be wasting time that you could be moving forward, and the amount you gained would be minimal.

Instead of those, they did the quickest and dirtiest fix – temporal curtain doesn’t work if you’ve already got swiftness – and they stuck with that.

I’ll stick by my guns on this one – tested with Centaur and Air – TC will stack, if you drop it, then trigger the Rune-heal. But, yes, that is an unnecessarily gimmicky way to get decent OOC speed. You’d think that with as much as Mesmers get nerfed, ANet’d finally see their way towards a remedy for this issue. OTOH, it does seem like SoI is triggering OOC Swiftness more often than when I last bothered using a slot for it.

My biggest issue with my mesmer. If we had a 25% run speed increase signet like other classes it would be a total non issue…here’s hoping. Hell necro have signet AND spectral walk it make me so jealous. Here’s hoping they bring back Illusion of Haste with our new skills. That and signet is something we deserve at this point for having a speed buff that has been even useless at times thus far.

TC do not apply swiftness if you (or anybody crossing it) already have some.

This is due to a beta “bug/exploit” where you could stack ages of swiftness by hopping in-out of TC multiple times.

Well this just sucks. Are there any consumables or food people use to circumvent our lack of mobility/swiftness?

I think it should be renewed every time you walk into TC. Makes no sense this doesn’t even renew

Zindrix.1750:

Well this just sucks. Are there any consumables or food people use to circumvent our lack of mobility/swiftness?

For most people, it is Focus & Centaur runes, or just live with it.