I think I get what you ' re saying . I ' m not an endgame player building r 4 trying to stabilize my nb 10 team and I do use plenty of Swift runes without speed , but I always assumed that was a temporary thing because I haven ' t farmed that long . I guess I shouldn ' t be surprised , when I crunched the numbers for all but the slowest monsters Swift ends up with the highest item budget when you compare it to Fatal Rage Blade x 2 when I used max mainstat as the comparison point . Using max substats as the item budget scale Swift is comparable to Fatal and worst than Rage on most monsters . Edit I ' m tired , using max substat scale , Swift has the worst item budget by a bit except on the fastest monsters ie Spectra speeds