Guild Wars 2

So with Renegade coming up we would obviously have to lose the perma swiftness uptime on Herald to use the new Elite Spec. Granted we have not seen the full trait list for Renegade the other options the Rev has for swiftness don’t really mesh well with Renegade.

1. Blasting Jalis’s Road – Running Jalis is likely not going to be a good option with what is appearing to be a condi based Legend. So running Jalis just for swiftness is not the best idea.

2. Rapid Flow Trait (Invocation) – 5 seconds of Swiftness whenever you use a skill that costs energy. Again this trait line does not mesh with Renegade given that it offers mostly improvements to Fury and Fury Uptime which other than the trait Ferocious Aggression ( +7% condi damage while under the effects of Fury) does not really benefit a condi build.

So unless Renegade has some good Swiftness options we are pretty much boned on the matter and will have to accept being turtles yes? Or is there something I am missing?

Hopping with UA in Mallyx is an option paired with Rapid Flow. You just have to pray random mobs or critters don’t randomly walk into the dark field. Unless you have boon duration, I find that split second downtime of swiftness annoying when I hold/autocast precisions strikes which happens to match the cd of rapid flow. Dat cast time.

I guess the problem I have with that is surely there will be better trait lines to use than invocation for a condi build. So having access to Rapid Flow is unlikely. Though yes using UA for Rapid Flow would be a pretty fun way to move around.

After taking a good look at the lines I suppose using Invocation wouldn’t be terrible ,but sadly there really isn’t much options for another traitline outside of Corruption that seems to benefit a condi build. I suppose earth sigils will be nice with all that crit ,but outside of that idk.

invocation isn’t good, but it’s not bad for condi since the the trait Ferocious Aggression adds 7% condi damage with fury. If you’re camping mallyx, you can take Fierce Infusion instead of the condi cleanse for another source of fury. Sadly, the grandmaster doesn’t have much except Shrouding Mists for that 10% dmg reduction under 50 energy, which honestly, is pretty much all the time.

Sup sigil of speed (30s of swift on kill) no icd.
Sup rune of speed (25% faster perma, and chances at swift on hit) (though it takes better fine tuning of your stats if you give up runes for these)
Bowl of asparagus and seaweed: 60% chance swift on kill and 5%+ DMG increase on moving (may be a nice DMG boost on a hybrid mobile SB rev)

Oh and on that side note of a condi rev, I plan on a hybrid SB with dev/corrupt/renegade. That nifty torment on crit (no icd unless it got changed) with shiro’s quickness for a crapton of pressure (bleed, life steal, vuln cover, torment and poison)

You all need to read the trait lines for Renegade. Invocation is essential. Fury and crit rate are a huge part of the elite spec.

For instance https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blood_Fury

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So unless Renegade has some good Swiftness options we are pretty much boned on the matter and will have to accept being turtles yes? Or is there something I am missing?

That thing you are missing.

It might be mounts.

Swiftness might still be useful in dungeons but out in the open world I reckon everyone’s going to be riding instead of running.

I frequently use rapid flow trait on my condi rev for swiftness. I’m using 4 travler 2 trapper for runes so I get a bit of +boon duration that mostly eliminates the downtime. Mace 2 or malyx hop are my goto’s for triggering the trait. both are still likely to be viable options for the renegade.

I’ve also been known to use jallis’s hammers as the trigger as its often my secondary legend. low cost and does not leave behind anoying fields that mobs might hit but is harder to time and is more likely to be sacrificed than malax to be paired with renegade.