Guild Wars 2

As someone who enjoys exploration a great deal in any MMORPG with an enormous world, I find it disappointing that in this game there is no type of faster travel despite how much exploration is encouraged. Yes, waypoints are awesome, but they still require exploration to be discovered and can sometimes be unusable during events. Not to mention cost and you have to stare at loading screen then still run to your destination. Enemies chase you down as well, and, when you’re in combat, speed reduces drastically, increasing the chance to get overwhelmed by more enemies. This can not only sometimes become aggravating, but, most importantly, time consuming.

What I purpose is simple (well maybe). A unique utility or elite skill that increase the characters movement speed permanently outside of combat not only on land but on water surfaces as well. The way speed is increased depends entirely on the profession. Some examples with dramatic explanations:

- Elementalist: On land, the elementalist shifts terrain to surf the across the earth like a wave(think earth benders from avatar ). While on water, they freeze the path beneath their feet and skate across it.
-Mesmer: The mesmer focuses their space-time defying magic to ignore gravity, levitating and propelling themselves at high speeds.
-Engineer: Combining human, asuran, and charr technology, the engineer creates a jet-pack (or hover vehicle/board, rocket boots, etc..) to transverse at high speeds.
-Thief: The thief gains the speed of the shadows, leaving afterimages in their wake. The thief moves with such velocity and precision they can even tread on water.

Just rough ideas to get the concept across. The speed increase can be ~50-60%. Once in combat, the skills are then cancelled and cannot be activated again until out of combat.
Different cosmetic effects of the skills could be added for purchase if possible.
Sorry if this has already been brought up or done to death, but I couldn’t find anything like this via google.
Feedback and more ideas would be nice.