Guild Wars 2

I believe the Mesmer’s focus ability Temporal Curtain is currently bugged.

The ability creates a line field, that applies <Cripple> on enemies reducing their movement speed, and applying <Swiftness> boon on allies that cross this field.

However, the <Swiftness> is not applied if the target had Swiftness already in his boon panel (was affected by the boon) from any other source. This way, the curtain is almost pointless in larger groups, especially at the place where it should be helpful the most.

Based on my researches, it was once made this way to prevent an exploit of this ability in a way of multi-passing – receiving the buff multiple times, which was not right. However, this ability loses most of it’s potential in it’s current state, and I do believe it should be looked at.

If the swiftness can be applied just once (like it can now) there is no reason to be coded as a unique swiftness that does not stack with any other swiftness in the game. It just shouldn’t stack with itself.