Guild Wars 2

Elidath.5679:

Pyroatheist.9031:

Temporal Curtain will not apply its swiftness if you already have swiftness on you

Winds.3087:

Wouldn’t call it a bug, curtain was nerfed long ago because apparently mesmers abused it by running in and out for permanent swiftness.

Mark of Swiftness (Guardian staff #3) is the same functionnality and did got the same problem of stacking unlimited swiftness. It has been modified so that when you step in it while already have swiftness, it’ll grant you 1 additionnal second of swiftness. No reason TC can’t act like that, so it really seems like a bug.

The reason they can’t do the same thing for Temporal Curtain that they do with Symbol of Swiftness is they work differently. TC applies the swiftness when you pass through the line on the ground where as Symbol of Swiftness pulses every second and applies its boon to people standing in it. (This is also why sometimes you can run through SOS and not get swiftness) With SOS, if you already have swiftness you get 1 second every second, so it can’t stack up. If TC gave 1 second every time you ran through it you could run back and forth through it more than once a second and get swiftness to stack up. Theoretically with enough mesmers you could stack swiftness to infinity.

They might be able to fix this with a hidden 1 second debuff that prevents you from getting swiftness from TC so that it would effectively work the same as SOS, but I imagine this would take a fair bit of work to do properly and they’ve got bigger things to work on than a skill that isn’t broken so much as not quite working as intended.

It kinda sucks that we get nothing for running through it if we already have swiftness though, especially when you slightly mis-time the curtain and run through just before your swiftness wears off.