Temporal Curtain
Its intended, supposedly
There has never been an official statement where it was supposed to be a field to stack swiftness in and as arenanet said, it’s intended to not stack swiftness in. This rumor as been going on for way too long lol.
There actually was. At the “bugfix thread” for the mesemer, a dev has responsed to all the bugs listed there and fixed almost every one of them in the future patch in april 15th.
On the very same thread he responsed to the statement with swiftness stack on curtain with “working as intended”.
Ziggs Ironeye – Engineer | Madame Le Blanc – Mesmer | Mentor (PvE) | EU
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Working as intended. Now ask me if it’s a kittened design decision and double standards with regards to the guardian’s symbol.
It wouldn’t be that painful if it would stack with everything else but itself.
Ziggs Ironeye – Engineer | Madame Le Blanc – Mesmer | Mentor (PvE) | EU
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
“Mentoring engineers / mesmers and showing you what you can do with your fantastic class!
Just pm me for my advice! Always eager to help!”
Working as intended. Now ask me if it’s a kittened design decision and double standards with regards to the guardian’s symbol.
While the guardian symbol now stacks, it now metes out its swiftness in very small increments so you have to stay in it for the full duration to get any reasonable amount of swiftness.
That would be a horrible change if made for temporal curtain as well.
To say this can’t be made more functional is a lie. To not stack may be working as intended, but that doesn’t mean the full duration shouldn’t be obtained regardless.
Grant full swiftness to all without restrictions but with maximum of one time per character throughout the lifetime of the dropped curtain. That’s the best logic but ANet is just too lazy to implement it.
The only problem I see is if 6 mesmers drop a curtain your whole zerg gets 60s+ of swiftness! Actually that might not be to bad since then we’ll no longer will be just the Veil bots. Veil and Curtain bots!
(edited by frifox.5283)
The only problem I see is if 6 mesmers drop a curtain your whole zerg gets 60s+ of swiftness! Actually that might not be to bad since then we’ll no longer will be just the Veil bots. Veil and Curtain bots!
And if 4 guardians drop a symbol before moving out, the whole zerg has 1+ minutes of swiftness.
I fail to see the problem.
Need to stay immobile for 4 sec to get the full duration. Curtain only needs to be crossed once to get the buff so that would mean you can stack swiftness on the fly. Dropping curtain in front after stacking might and moving out also eliminates fire/light field conflict.