Guild Wars 2

My primary character has runes of the Traveler and the in city Greater Swiftness Bonus granted by the Leader of the Pact achievement. I see the swiftness animation however I am no faster than anyone else around me. What gives?

maybe most people around you also have the buff? as far as I can tell (from the small run I did around Rata Sum) the swiftness from leader of the pact is working just fine.

There’s a thread in General where a few people have stated that they’re no longer getting the speed buffs that they did; including in the open world (where Leader of the Pact wouldn’t apply) etc. Shame that none of them dropped a thread here, since some were absolutely certain, and had timed their chars running with buff and without, resulting in exactly the same speed.

I haven’t done any of that, and I’m nowhere near as certain as some of those folks, but it does seem that my main isn’t zipping along as fast as she used to (either with Traveler runes or the speed buff utility).

[I know that this is an absolutely terrible bug report, but hopefully the additional info might help somewhere.]

The speed buff is working fine.

I just tested using two accounts: one with pact mastery, one without; the account with mastery is far faster than the one without.

Keep in mind some traits, skills, and armor give passive speed buffs and every city in the game has NPCs that offer a 5-min buff to speed. Further, everyone in the same party with a Pact Commander also earns the speed buff.

I have full pact mastery which is supposed to give a 33% boost in cities, and thought I was running a little slow, so I tested it out a little while ago with swiftness. When the swiftness wore off I slowed down by a lot, instead of running at a consistent rate.