Guild Wars 2

Sorry if this is a stupid question but does signet of the locust grant a 25% speedup even while in combat?

I know combat speed is slower than out of combat, but it seems like it should still apply. Someone told me that it didn’t last night while I was running Arah, and I haven’t yet had a chance to test this out. (Maybe I’ll get to it tonight).

In the meantime, I was wondering if anyone could verify this? I’ve looked at a couple of other places and neither seems to give an explicit answer:

Movement Speed

Signet of the Locust runspeed buff

Just tested it in the mists and the 25% buff should apply in combat.
If you want to verify it for yourself i suggest doing the following:
Attack a golem or npc in the mists, walk a bit and activate signet of the locust. By doing so the passive movement speed buff will go on cooldown.
You should notice a significant decrease in movement speed.

Apart from that i heard that signet passives tend to bug out if you get out of deathshroud since the january patch(which also brought in the delay on utility skills after exiting DS) but i could not confirm this for myself

It definitely still applies in combat. People just don’t think it does because they forget how drastic the slowdown from out-of-combat to in-combat is.

Out of combat, no speed buffs is 300 u/s. With Signet of the Locust, it is 375 u/s.
In combat, no speed buffs movement is 210 u/s. In combat with Signet of the Locust is 262.5 u/s.

You actually lose more movement speed when you enter combat if you have the Signet equipped than not, so the greater difference leads people to believe the signet doesn’t function in combat. You still have a very noticable mobility advantage over your opponents, though.

OK, that makes sense and confirms what had been by intuition. The person that had told me otherwise seemed so convinced it made me doubt myself

Thank you for those responses!