Guild Wars 2

I really love the ability of currently 5 classes to run 25% faster all the time.
It makes doing maps in PvE and running around in WvW so much better. I also use swiftness, to get that little more speed form time to time, but it pains me that 3 out of my 8 characters (1 for each class) are so slow…

Especially Mesmer that has almost none swiftness ability, except for focus 4th skill, but let’s face it. It’s way too little speed boost for this class even with all utility skills.
Guardian? Why am I always forced to run with the staff for almost constant swiftness?
Engineer is best of those 3 for me but also it pains me.

Please ANET make all characters run the same speed to make it equal a bit in WvW and for convenience in PvE.

+10 to that, it’s painfully slow.

Warrior doesn’t have a “speedsinget” either :/
Altough it pains me to play with my necromancer and then go play with my guardian and get annoyed by the fact that he’s slower, it’s normal. It’s done for balancing options. Imagine a mesmer with +25% speed running away from you in WvW, that’s why they don’t have too many skills that apply swiftness. But thenagain: warriors, guardians and engineers can have perma-swiftness.

You could play with your perceptions a little … make your characters with speed buffs charr or norn and make the slow ones asura.

Large characters always feel like they’re moving slower and small characters always feel faster even though they are actually moving the same rate.

Of course, too late if you’ve already made all your characters, though you could use a total make-over kit to adjust the height slider.

Coroner.3168:

Warrior doesn’t have a “speedsinget” either :/
Altough it pains me to play with my necromancer and then go play with my guardian and get annoyed by the fact that he’s slower, it’s normal. It’s done for balancing options. Imagine a mesmer with +25% speed running away from you in WvW, that’s why they don’t have too many skills that apply swiftness. But thenagain: warriors, guardians and engineers can have perma-swiftness.

Warrior has a trait that lets him run 25% faster permanently when wielding melee weapons, plus if you trait for warhorn cooldown reduction, you can permanantly have swiftness, which makes you even faster than the flighty classes. Even without having traited for warhorn cooldown reduction, you can use warhorn in combination with signet of rage (which you’re using anyways) to give yourself permanent swiftness.

Nabrok.9023
“though you could use a total make-over kit to adjust the height slider”

Yeah that should work, that will make my character run faster !!!!

Seriously though, ignoring the “balance” rubbish, not having a speed buff, or just a permanently slow running speed is a real pain, it takes ages to actually get anywhere.

Septemptus.7164:

I really love the ability of currently 5 classes to run 25% faster all the time.
It makes doing maps in PvE and running around in WvW so much better. I also use swiftness, to get that little more speed form time to time, but it pains me that 3 out of my 8 characters (1 for each class) are so slow…

Especially Mesmer that has almost none swiftness ability, except for focus 4th skill, but let’s face it. It’s way too little speed boost for this class even with all utility skills.
Guardian? Why am I always forced to run with the staff for almost constant swiftness?
Engineer is best of those 3 for me but also it pains me.

Please ANET make all characters run the same speed to make it equal a bit in WvW and for convenience in PvE.

umm… actually for guardians, use “retreat” for constant swiftness (lasts alot longer)

and if u use blink and a sword w/ a focus, theirs a few more tricks mesmres can employ, tricks no other class can do, closest being thf

Coroner.3168:

Imagine a mesmer with +25% speed running away from you in WvW, that’s why they don’t have too many skills that apply swiftness.

i got on better. imagine a mesmer using sword focus for the swiftness ability and the imaginary leap ability. 6 is the mantra for healing, 7 is blink, 8 is mantra for condition removal, 9 is feedback, and 0 is mass invis.

start of with imaginary leap and vear of in a direction oposite of were your planning, as they chase u and not the clone, u use swap (imaginary leap secondary ability, sword skill) followed by focus run ability then mass invis. traits have to be set up in a way that each time you dodge you create a clone. this allows you to make clones to attack, confusing enemy while your invis. other skillz are for defensive reasons (range attacks, immobilize (blink) and cripple)

basically, as long as you dont mess up, u can run from anything pretty effectively

and this comes from a zerker mes :P

when everyone has a speed buff, no one has a speed buff. Might as well ask for all speed buffs to be taken away.

Dustfinger.9510:

when everyone has a speed buff, no one has a speed buff. Might as well ask for all speed buffs to be taken away.

LOL agreed

better still. 25% for nobody. Just het rid of it because its forcing people to have to sacrifice 1 utility slot (or trait)for those who can. and makes classes who can’t feel slower and frustrating.

the removal of 25% spread would also be an opportunity to add somenew skills/signers in their place.

Increase everyone’s speed by 25% and remove the signet.

Astral Projections.7320
“Increase everyone’s speed by 25% and remove the signet.”

Well there’a solution, sounds good to me.

Perma %33 with battle standard warrior.

Guardian has retreat, save yourselves, and the staff skill. I always have swiftness up.

To put it all and sum up a bit.
Im not talking about having buch of skills and a way to move messmer with 5 oskils or so. I wrote this topis cause it makes normal playing painfull when you switch back to character that dont have that 25% extra runing speed.

Yes, you are ring it should be like all have the same. You sacrefice utility slot for speed or few traits, but you have an option to do so or not. I would always, that is why it pains me, that I dont have this option on 3 of 8 classes.

That is why I ask ANet team to pass this up to people who can correct this mistake.