Guild Wars 2

Anet why is it Temporal Curtain our focus 4 does not stack with other swiftness. we have to use it before any other swiftness.
This seems kind of stupid if your running with a group or if we have Signet of Inspiration that gives us swiftness every 5 seconds.
Please can you explain this.

Explanation:

In beta, you could stack infinite swiftness by walking back and forth over the curtain. Anet didn’t like this, so they slapped a band-aid fix on it to prevent that behavior.

Sometime between then and now, that band-aid transformed into ‘working as intended, nothing to see here, move along.’

Because coding a dummy buff to serve as the exclusion rule was too much work…

I really don’t understand why they haven’t changed the swiftness to 4 seconds superspeed… You’ll cover about the same distance as 12 secs of swiftness and it can remain non-stacking.

Superspeed doesn’t play nice with duration runes, and you cover a LOT less distance while out of combat.

Superspeed also doesnt increase your speed that much when OOC; its only significant IC.

How it was explained to me is there is a max cap on your core speed of 210 IC and 300 OC, with a 400 speed max cap regardless of whats going on.

So OOC, with 33% speed increase, you end up going 300*1.33= 399, and superspeed SHOULD raise you to 600, but because of the 400 cap, you only go 400, just 1 pt above swiftness ooc.

IC is another matter though, as swiftness puts you at 210*1.33=279.3 where Superspeed puts you at 210*2=410, reduced again to 400.

I havent really tested the IC portion, but I know the OOC portion functions as I’ve explained.

The Take-Home message here is: if you want to travel long distances out of combat, then you go with Swiftness. Want IN COMBAT mobility, that’s superspeed.

Same goes for veil and mesmer invis. I agree it’s annoying, but there are higher priorities atm (signet + inspiration line aftercast bug, mantra heal cleanse bug, warlock aim, oh sword clone bug, etc).

Superspeed doesn’t work ooc beacuse there is a swiftness cap and that’s working as intended. Ic it’s super strong, especially when chilled or crippled.

Fay.2357:

Explanation:

In beta, you could stack infinite swiftness by walking back and forth over the curtain. Anet didn’t like this, so they slapped a band-aid fix on it to prevent that behavior.

Sometime between then and now, that band-aid transformed into ‘working as intended, nothing to see here, move along.’

Pity they didn’t leave this ‘fix’ in pvp and wvw. God-forbid we get to move around large, empty sections of the maps in pve quickly. I swear every possible little fun thing in pve gets gutted because ‘nope….won’t be balanced in pvp so kitten you’.