Guild Wars 2

Alright so the “buff” came out a long time ago now. No change actually happened. Same as swiftness. Still useful when it comes to dashing around and landing back stabs but still It would be nice to truly be the most mobile class and utilize this trait to its fullest.

What bug are you talking about? I’m catching up to all professions in stealth, even a player with speed buff isn’t going to run away from me with that trait.

you can’t move above 133% of out of combat run speed no matter what, so the full benefit of the trait only happens in combat, since run speed is lowered in combat.

Dear Professor Sensei,

All profession have slower movement speed during combat and the speed buffs are capped at swiftness speed (+33% of out of combat movement speed). Please see:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Movement_speed

Fleet Shadow trait allows the thief to move 1.5*210 u/s = 315 u/s, which is slightly faster then the out of combat normal speed (300 u/s), but slower than the out of combat swiftness speed (400 u/s). It is still clearly better than combat speed with swiftness 1.33*210 u/s = 279 u/s. In order words you can out run other professions who are in combat and using swiftness. It is also clearly better than signet of shadows, which gives you 1.25*210 u/s = 262.5 u/s in combat.