Guild Wars 2

Does anyone know if fleet shadow (50% run speed in stealth) is giving the full 50% to run speed when you have signet of shadows applied (25% run speed out of combat)?

I was playing around with it yesterday and couldn’t tell if I was actually going at 50% when in combat while running next to someone with a 33% switftness buff. It appeared to me that I was only going at 33%.

Can anyone confirm?

Thanks in advance.

Interesting question although I kicked the SOS habit a while ago. I noticed I slowed down in Stealth anyway although swiftness from a Dodge applies.

I can confirm that out of combat the trait moves you no faster than with swiftness. There is a hard cap on movement speed which is given by swiftness out of combat. Anything above that is brought in line with that maximum. This means that out of combat you will not notice a difference between swiftness or running with stealth.

In combat your base running speed is lower so the trait allows you to reach higher speeds without hitting the cap. In combat you can see a clear difference between swiftness and running in stealth with this trait.

Additionally, the bonuses are not additive or multiplicative, only the highest bonus applies. That means if you use both SoS and the +50% move speed in stealth, while you are in stealth you will only get the +50% movement speed since it is the highest buff available to you. They won’t add to give you a +75% or anything like that. The same applies with swiftness and SoS, if you have swiftness on it overrides SoS’s passive move speed instead of adding to it.

Actually it only gives you 33% movement speed. (like before.), Movement speed is capped at 33%, in combat thats lower, but it doesn’t go over 33%, ever.

That Trait and Swiftness do not stack, Swiftness/That trait are the same speed.

Daecollo.9578:

Actually it only gives you 33% movement speed. (like before.), Movement speed is capped at 33%, in combat thats lower, but it doesn’t go over 33%, ever.

That Trait and Swiftness do not stack, Swiftness/That trait are the same speed.

Out of combat this is true, but in combat the stealth is faster than swiftness because in combat your base movement speed is much lower. So you get the benefit of the full 50% while in combat and it over-rides swiftness and sos. It’s only 17% faster.

It’s impossible to hit cap speed in combat, but this trait comes close.

swinsk.6410:

Daecollo.9578:

Actually it only gives you 33% movement speed. (like before.), Movement speed is capped at 33%, in combat thats lower, but it doesn’t go over 33%, ever.

That Trait and Swiftness do not stack, Swiftness/That trait are the same speed.

Out of combat this is true, but in combat the stealth is faster than swiftness because in combat your base movement speed is much lower. So you get the benefit of the full 50% while in combat and it over-rides swiftness and sos. It’s only 17% faster.

It’s impossible to hit cap speed in combat, but this trait comes close.

Make a video and proove its faster then Swiftness.

I don’t see a difference.

Get swiftness and go into stealth.

Then get that trait and go into stealth and do the same, compare videos side to side with numbers, start from point a to b with a timer.

I notice I run 8% Faster in stealth with the trait signet of shadows (25%.) 25%+8% = 33%.