Guild Wars 2

I have found recently that this skill is really buggy when running with my party through wvw I have to be really careful how I use it so that I the caster get the swiftness to everyone else that touches it gets it but I’m often left without.

example#1 casting it at your feet while running even if your still in the symbol when it appears will not grant you the swiftness over 75% of the time.

example#2 this may be a design but dodge rolling through the symbol gets you no swiftness this is particularly annoying in group fights or while retreating.

I have noticed this as well. Something I made note of, is it seems to be related to dodge roll. If I avoid rolling through the symbol I almost always get the swiftness buff, but when I dodge roll through it, or start a dodge roll that finishes in it, I will more often than not fail to receive the swiftness buff.

Yes this is indeed a serious issue with that skill. It’s even worse if you already have swiftness on you.

yeah very true on both.. and since my guardian has high boon duration the cooldown is not as long as the swiftness so like zappix said it definately seems worse when you already have swiftness

I think a lot of the issues with this skill come from the fact that it seems to grant it’s swiftness buff in pulses every X seconds or so, rather than when a player touches it. If you’re unlucky with the timings, it seems you can travel across the symbol between pulses assuming you already have swiftness which is probably why I’ve had a lot less issues with the skill after I started using Writ of Exaltation (larger symbols).

Note the above is all based on anecdotal evidence and I honestly haven’t been playing a Guardian for that long.

It has to do with the frequency at which the swiftness is applied. The pulses are far enough apart that it’s possible for you to walk over the field and not get one.

yeah it is borked in more than one way. There is an ancient thread about it applying only 1 second of speed buff if you already had speed buff on you.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Guardian-Symbol-of-Swiftness-bugged

Common guys, 4 months and still not even ETA on fix?

^ thats a pretty long time for a skill to be buggy and I don’t see how this is a hard fix

Weird, I can’t seem to get it not working. It seems to pulse every second and I always get it while standing inside it.

Lafiel.9372:

Weird, I can’t seem to get it not working. It seems to pulse every second and I always get it while standing inside it.

I don’t usually have an issue with the skill by itself. Try casting Retreat first, then running through it. The little white border resets as if the extra time has been added but it doesn’t actually add the extra time. On the other hand if you cast the symbol first and then retreat the Swiftness stacks fine, but even though the Symbol cools down you can’t add another 8 seconds without waiting for Swiftness to expire first.

It’s extremely annoying given how freaking slowly the Guardian moves in the first place -.-

There are 2 things happening:

1. You can pass through a symbol between the pulses. So you won’t get it.
2. When you already have swiftness that you have given yourself and you try to apply swiftness again (as in first shout “Retreat” and then put down symbol of swiftness), it will only add 1 second to the timer. You can’t apply swiftness 2 times yourself on yourself. If you have swiftness already from your own and someone else gives you swiftness it works. EXCEPT when it’s the same skill (symbol of swiftness yourself, symbol of swiftness from someone else.

The one second add and last EXCEPT i’ve only seen happening on the symbol of swiftness and also not always.

The one second adding is also documented on the wiki: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Symbol_of_Swiftness