Guild Wars 2

The runes (6x) gives swiftness when using a healing skill to you and nearby allies.

- Doesn’t work underwater. At all.
- The runes give 13 sec of swiftness (+20% duration bonus)
According to the tooltip, you should be able to reapply it after 10 seconds.
The cooldown seems to be wonky. I can only reapply +-2 seconds after the swiftness expires.

I’m using this set of runes coupled with the engineers med kit so it gives myself and my party perma-swiftness.
But alas, there is always a short downtime before I can reapply again.

This is a case with all “after your heal skill” 10second CD rune bonuses (Lyssa, Balth, Vampirism etc). Their CDs are actually closer to15 seconds instead of 10s.

Aha, I didn’t know this affected other runes as well.
Good to know. It’s a minor annoyance, nothing gamebreaking.

But the runes never give swiftness underwater, that’s what’s killing me here.
Literally, since I relay on swiftness a lot for my defense.

If you upgrade your Aqua Breather with another Rune of the Centaur the 6th rune skill should work underwater as the breather replaces your headgear/helm when you’re underwater.

Oh wow. That never even occurred to me.
Thanks for the advice, I’ll try that out.