Does Swift trait increase sprinting speed or just walking/'running speed?

KingLogix

This is an important question! More context to determine if this will be usable for my character. I run heavy armor. I am no where near close to sprint cap. I am just curious if this trait will boost my sprinting speed or not. I have heard mixed things so far. Thank you in advance

DDuke

Both, but there's a speed cap at 100% which you're very likely to hit with 3x Swift.

Sprint gives you 40% movement speed (+3% for each medium armor slotted) and that also counts towards the speed cap.

KingLogix

DDuke wrote: »

Both, but there's a speed cap at 100% which you're very likely to hit with 3x Swift.

Sprint gives you 40% movement speed (+3% for each medium armor slotted) and that also counts towards the speed cap.

Ok thats good to know, about nearing speed cap with 3x swift! To make sure I am understanding.. If i run swift, will I bee quicker when in hurricane and major expedition? Sorry if i didn't understand that part of your answer

DDuke

KingLogix wrote: »

DDuke wrote: »

Both, but there's a speed cap at 100% which you're very likely to hit with 3x Swift.

Sprint gives you 40% movement speed (+3% for each medium armor slotted) and that also counts towards the speed cap.

Ok thats good to know, about nearing speed cap with 3x swift! To make sure I am understanding.. If i run swift, will I bee quicker when in hurricane and major expedition? Sorry if i didn't understand that part of your answer

Yes.

With Hurricane (Minor Expedition)+Major Expedition you'd be moving at 40% speed (or 43% if they really calculate multiplicatively, not 100% sure on that) and sprinting at 80% speed.

Add 3x Swift jewelry and you're moving at 70% speed and sprinting at 100% speed (capped).

Minno

To add to this, snares reduce your movement speed. So you can use the same reasoning as when stacking resists past mitigation cap to counteract penetration, except with speed.

3x Swift might be useless pending your build, but might be better if you are taking a 30-50% snare all the time (of which the former there are alot of 30% snares in the game).

raasdal

We have just had a decent discussion here; https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/420070/how-does-swift-stack#latest

Swift adds to you non sprint speed. This means that with major / minor exp + 3xswift, you will have the same Walking speed as someone else with major expedition who is also sprinting.

They are all additive. Above is 70% speed increase.