Guild Wars 2

So, I noticed today that a ranger was just out running me while in combat without any form of swiftness on, but I did notice that he had Signet of the Hunt running. Basically I would hit him once or twice and then he would be just out of range and all I got were misses.

This prompted me to ask a few random rangers if Signet of the Hunt works in combat for them and they said that it does.

So, why does the thief’s/thieves’ Signet of Shadows not work the same way? Why does our signet not work in combat? Or, why does Signet of the Hunt work in combat?

Has anyone else noticed this? I know that Signet of Shadows has always worked like it does now – Out of combat you get the run speed, and in combat you don’t. Is this a bug for Signet of the Hunt that we should report?

Personally, I would like Arena-Net to throw us a bone and possibly make Signet of Shadows work in combat, it would help a little for getting kited by some classes that can get pretty much perma-swiftness up.

SoS doesn’t work in combat but Signet of Hunt does? Wow that’s not fair.

LOL , your signet does work in combat…only time it doesnt is when you activate which is see ALOT of bad thieves open the battle with…how do you think thieves actually stay near a kiter? it for darn sure aint with perma swiftness lol

SoS works in combat. But, I have found myself in similar circumstances. While I don’t melee much with my thief, I’ve found I get similar problems with my warrior and Warrior’s Sprint, their source of 25% speed. Or, sometimes I’ll be under my warhorn’s swiftness, and get successfully kited just out of reach by someone with a +25% speed signet. On my thief, I’ve run along side a 25% speed runner, spamming dodge to maintain Expeditious Dodger, only to find us moving the exact same speed.

While I haven’t tested anything extensively enough to come to any conclusions or rule out additional factors, it has cropped up enough to make me question the integrity of the speed system.