Guild Wars 2

Noticing “Leader of the Pack” isn’t applying in our Home Instances. The icon for the buff is present but, not applying swiftness. In testing it, running from point A to B took 13 seconds without swiftness and 10 seconds with swiftness. Thus the “Leader of the Pack” buff isn’t applying.

ty

I don’t think instances are considered part of the city (for such things) even though they may be located (on the map) in the city.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I don’t think instances are considered part of the city (for such things) even though they may be located (on the map) in the city.

One way or another, it’s bugged (if the OP is correct):

• If it counts as a city, then the buff should work.
• If it doesn’t count as a city, the buff shouldn’t be present at all (I can confirm it is present for all party members present in the instance).

DeWolfe.2174:

Noticing “Leader of the Pack” isn’t applying in our Home Instances. The icon for the buff is present but, not applying swiftness. In testing it, running from point A to B took 13 seconds without swiftness and 10 seconds with swiftness. Thus the “Leader of the Pack” buff isn’t applying.

ty

According to the wiki Leader of the Pact III is bugged generally, giving a 25% movement boost, not 33%.

(That bug note was added on 6 Dec by an anonymous editor, without documenting how they tested, so I don’t know how reliable the info is.)

Did you test it outside of your home instance? I believe swiftness remains faster in the main cities, too.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

DeWolfe.2174:

Noticing “Leader of the Pack” isn’t applying in our Home Instances. The icon for the buff is present but, not applying swiftness. In testing it, running from point A to B took 13 seconds without swiftness and 10 seconds with swiftness. Thus the “Leader of the Pack” buff isn’t applying.

ty

According to the wiki Leader of the Pact III is bugged generally, giving a 25% movement boost, not 33%.

(That bug note was added on 6 Dec by an anonymous editor, without documenting how they tested, so I don’t know how reliable the info is.)

Did you test it outside of your home instance? I believe swiftness remains faster in the main cities, too.

When I tested, it is 33%, and was before they broke it for a while as well. Note is wrong, and was added because they broke the speed boost applied (it wore off, but the icon stayed). That bug was introduced when they ‘fixed’ it applying Pact 1, 2, and 3 randomly.

When they did break it, you would have a few seconds of speed boost, even in the instance, and then it would vanish. Typically people would take so long to load in that they wouldn’t see the speed benefit at all. However, Home instance (DR at least) is in fact gaining the buff. If other home instances are not, report them to Anet

The bug about not getting any boost was fixed — I tested immediately afterward and confirmed that I was faster with the buff than without and it was at least 25% (compared to using Superior Runes of Speed on a non-party, core-only character for comparison).

So the question is: has anyone tested more recently? And if so, what tests did they run and where? I’m “pretty sure” my toons are faster with the buff and faster still with swiftness, however I haven’t done any formal tests this week — didn’t occur to me that they were needed until this thread.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

The bug about not getting any boost was fixed — I tested immediately afterward and confirmed that I was faster with the buff than without and it was at least 25% (compared to using Superior Runes of Speed on a non-party, core-only character for comparison).

So the question is: has anyone tested more recently? And if so, what tests did they run and where? I’m “pretty sure” my toons are faster with the buff and faster still with swiftness, however I haven’t done any formal tests this week — didn’t occur to me that they were needed until this thread.

Yes tested as a druid with and without the traited speed, against another druid with the trait. No difference at all, both in LA and in DR home instance.