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Swiftness
From Guild Wars 2 Wiki
Swiftness is a boon that provides an increase to movement speed. Other effects that provide a bonus to movement speed (e.g. certain traits and signets) do not stack with swiftness; only the highest increase in movement speed will take place.“Movement speed increased by 33%; stacks duration.— In-game description
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[edit] Related skills
[edit] Weapon skills that grant swiftness
Symbol of Swiftness
Charge
Call of the Wild
- Hunter's Shot (on pet)
- Quick Shot
Updraft
- Windborne Speed
Chaos Storm (randomly)
- Temporal Curtain (when crossing the curtain)
Locust Swarm
[edit] Underwater weapon skills that grant swiftness
- Siren's Call (randomly)
- Deadly Feast
[edit] Healing skills that grant swiftness
Elixir H (randomly)
- Glyph of Elemental Harmony (when attuned to air)
[edit] Utility skills that grant swiftness
[edit] Elite skills that grant swiftness
[edit] Skills with special conditions that grant swiftness
- Smiter's Boon (with Tome of Wrath)
- Inspire (holding a banner)
- Quickening Screech (Bird pet skill)
- Drop Stimulant (with Med Kit)
- Elixir F (with Elixir Gun)
- Toss Elixir B (tool belt skill for Elixir B, randomly)
Consume Ectoplasm (stolen)
- Glyph of Lesser Elementals (when attuned to air)
Eat Owl Egg (tool belt skill with Call Owl)
[edit] Combos that grant swiftness
[edit] Related traits
[edit] Traits that grant swiftness
- Furious Speed - 10% chance to gain swiftness (3s) on critical hits.
- Infused Precision - 50% chance to gain swiftness for 5 seconds on critical hits. This effect cannot trigger more than once every 5 seconds.
- Speedy Kits - Gain swiftness for 5 seconds when ever [sic] you equip a kit. This effect cannot trigger more then [sic] once every 5 seconds.
- Tail Wind - Gain swiftness when swapping weapons in combat.
- Expeditious Dodger - Gain 2 seconds of swiftness on evade.
- Hard to Catch - Shadowstep away and give[sic] swiftness (12s) when you are disabled (stun, daze, float, knock down, launch, knock back, sink, or fear). This effect cannot occur more than once every 60 seconds.
- Assassin's Retreat - Gain swiftness when you kill an foe [sic]. Can only be applied once every second.
- Thrill of the Crime - When you steal, you and all nearby allies gain fury, might and swiftness for 10 seconds.
- Elemental Attunement - When attuning to an Air, you and all nearby allies gain swiftness.
- Inscription - Grants a boon associated with your current attunement when you cast a glyph.
- Zephyr's Boon - Auras grant fury and swiftness when applied.
[edit] Traits that benefit from swiftness
- Invigorating Speed - When you gain swiftness, you also gain 5 seconds of vigor. (Cooldown: 5 seconds)
[edit] Related equipment
[edit] Upgrade components that grant swiftness
[edit] Runes
- Superior Rune of Speed (rank 4)
- Superior Rune of the Air (rank 4)
- Superior Rune of the Centaur (rank 6)
- Superior Rune of the Pack (rank 4)
[edit] Sigils
[edit] Upgrade components that affect swiftness
[edit] Runes
- Superior Rune of Speed (rank 2 – increases duration)
- Superior Rune of the Air (rank 2 – increases duration)
- Superior Rune of the Centaur (rank 4 – increases duration)
- Superior Rune of the Pack (rank 2 – increases duraction)
[edit] Related consumables
[edit] Consumables that grant swiftness
- Aquatic Elixir - (20% chance on kill)
- Bowl of Simple Salad - (20% chance on kill)
- Bowl of Ascalonian Salad - (28% chance on kill)
- Bowl of Coleslaw - (36% chance on kill)
- Bowl of Cabbage and Chickpea Salad - (40% chance on kill)
- Bowl of Asparagus and Sage Salad - (50% chance on kill)
- Bowl of Seaweed Salad - (60% chance on kill)
[edit] Notes
- When swiftness is applied to a character they will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on their race and gender.
| Race | Gender | |
|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | |
 Asura
|
Accelerate! | Accelerating! |
 Charr
|
Faster! | Swiftly! |
 Human
|
Eat my dust! | I could outrun a centaur! |
| Norn
|
Faster! | Quickly! |
 Sylvari
|
Swift and steady. | I'm fast as the wind! |
