Guild Wars 2

I applied 6 Superior Runes of Speed to my gear yesterday. The 6 piece set bonus is +7% move speed while using swiftness.

It does NOT appear to be working on my engineer as I was running side by side with my entire group while the group was keeping up group swiftness for multiple consecutive minutes (rotating war horns) and I did not detect any measurable increase in my speed.

I also did not see any increase in speed from self- swiftness when using speedy kits, or swiftness from med-kit. I did not test swiftness from elixir b.

I put a ticket in but haven’t received a response yet.

Has anyone else noticed this. I did a search and nothing came up.

Thanks in advance for your kind replies.

Tested this recently and experienced the same problem.

Bump so maybe this design oversight will get looked at.

I had a similar problem with 6x superior rune of necromancer, which I tried to apply on my norn elementalist. None of the bonuses from the runes worked.

Someone asked me why I would want to put necro runes on ele – it’s because of the condition damage the runes offer.

The game ALLOWS the runes to be put in light gear, but does not give the bonuses. How can I know this in advance so that I don’t go spend on runes that DON’T work.

This is still an issue, the +7% speed increase to swiftness does not work at all.

On a side note, I can’t help but think that the “5% chance to gain swiftness on being hit” bonus for this set should actually be “5% chance to gain swiftness on hit”. 5% is insultingly low, I’ve seen the effect proc maybe twice in 50+ hours of combat. The ‘bonus’ is next to useless and fairly underwhelming when compared to other superior rune sets.

Does anyone know if this bug has been fixed yet?

Still hasn’t been fixed or even acknowledged