I had taken a bit of a hiatus from GW2, and jumped into WvW to try out the new Symbol of Swiftness with my Guardian and I noticed something odd about swiftness yesterday. Whenever swiftness would put you at or over 40 seconds, it seems only about 50% of swiftness buffs actually get taken and applied.
This includes symbol of swiftness 4-second ticks (not that big of a deal) to Save Yourselves’ 11 seconds of swiftness not applying at all.
I’ve done it about a dozen times; it only happens once an application of swiftness would put you at or over 40s of swiftness. You’ll note in the video that if I’m at or above 37s, about half the ticks of SoS don’t apply. Last night, I thought there was a new hard cap on swiftness of 40s, but I looked around and couldn’t find anything.
