Guild Wars 2

Nostromo.4126:

Thank god they didn’t also hit Ride The Lightning with the nerf bat is all I can say!

I’m sorry, but RTL can’t be possibly nerfed more than it actually is. Where were you for the last year?
RTL is in the “one nerf from deletion” position now….

STRanger.5120:

Nostromo.4126:

Thank god they didn’t also hit Ride The Lightning with the nerf bat is all I can say!

I’m sorry, but RTL can’t be possibly nerfed more than it actually is. Where were you for the last year?
RTL is in the “one nerf from deletion” position now….

Eh, I’ve only used it from earlier this year on my air elem, so just as well I never saw its glories of days past! Still find it a very nice mobility skill, but yeah, I remember watching beta vids & being amazed at some of the stuff ppl were doing with it to get to those hard-to-get-at places, which doesn’t work so well any more. I use it mainly to supplement fast movement around the map or as a quick getaway skill when I get in over my head, YMMV.

As an aside, I just wish there was 1 mmo dev who was brave enough to keep the original release version of the game going on a test server/center, for all the nostalgia fans among us. Imagine EQ, UO, WoW, AO, AoC, CoH, LOTRO, etc, etc as they were on day 1 v1.0…sigh

To notice the true speed-difference in combat try out Engineer’s Rocket Boots

kitten I remember when I could use Ride The Lightning every 16 seconds. That was so much fun and no one suffered because of it. Now it’s just a lame pretty useless skill.

Nostromo.4126:

Ok, we’ll just have to agree to disagree then. I can’t see anything simpler, cheaper or easier for PvE exploring than a single minor (adept) trait to give you near perma-swiftmess after just 50secs, which can also be very easily swapped out for something more functional if you’re traited for air anyway. Other classes like ranger & necro have a single signet to achieve this, elems unfortunately don’t. (For reference, I run my necro with the Signet of the Locust & even add Spectral Walk when I’m just exploring or doing non-combat Daily crap – easy enough to swap both out for more pets or other skills b4 getting into more difficult combat – I used to run twin dagger with the 25% speed trait, but changed to all-ranged staff+scepter/focus build more recently for various reasons).

As it stands now, you have to use some combo of the following to gain permaswiftness:
Windborne Speed, Glyph of Elemental Harmony/Power and the Inscription and/or Elemental Attunement traits. How this is ‘better’ overall in anyone’s right mind, apart from the 8% more speed, is beyond me.

Thank god they didn’t also hit Ride The Lightning with the nerf bat is all I can say!

Ele’s have signet of air, which grants a perma 25% IMS. Soon Windborne Dagger will be an out of combat trait as well. So you’ll probably be able to stack Signet of Air and have 1 dagger equipped to get the effect you want instantly, which used to take however many seconds to acheive.

Shockwave.1230:

Nostromo.4126:

Ok, we’ll just have to agree to disagree then. I can’t see anything simpler, cheaper or easier for PvE exploring than a single minor (adept) trait to give you near perma-swiftmess after just 50secs, which can also be very easily swapped out for something more functional if you’re traited for air anyway. Other classes like ranger & necro have a single signet to achieve this, elems unfortunately don’t. (For reference, I run my necro with the Signet of the Locust & even add Spectral Walk when I’m just exploring or doing non-combat Daily crap – easy enough to swap both out for more pets or other skills b4 getting into more difficult combat – I used to run twin dagger with the 25% speed trait, but changed to all-ranged staff+scepter/focus build more recently for various reasons).

As it stands now, you have to use some combo of the following to gain permaswiftness:
Windborne Speed, Glyph of Elemental Harmony/Power and the Inscription and/or Elemental Attunement traits. How this is ‘better’ overall in anyone’s right mind, apart from the 8% more speed, is beyond me.

Thank god they didn’t also hit Ride The Lightning with the nerf bat is all I can say!

Ele’s have signet of air, which grants a perma 25% IMS. Soon Windborne Dagger will be an out of combat trait as well. So you’ll probably be able to stack Signet of Air and have 1 dagger equipped to get the effect you want instantly, which used to take however many seconds to acheive.

Windborne Dagger does not stack See here

Shadowfall.6543:

Shockwave.1230:

Nostromo.4126:

Ok, we’ll just have to agree to disagree then. I can’t see anything simpler, cheaper or easier for PvE exploring than a single minor (adept) trait to give you near perma-swiftmess after just 50secs, which can also be very easily swapped out for something more functional if you’re traited for air anyway. Other classes like ranger & necro have a single signet to achieve this, elems unfortunately don’t. (For reference, I run my necro with the Signet of the Locust & even add Spectral Walk when I’m just exploring or doing non-combat Daily crap – easy enough to swap both out for more pets or other skills b4 getting into more difficult combat – I used to run twin dagger with the 25% speed trait, but changed to all-ranged staff+scepter/focus build more recently for various reasons).

As it stands now, you have to use some combo of the following to gain permaswiftness:
Windborne Speed, Glyph of Elemental Harmony/Power and the Inscription and/or Elemental Attunement traits. How this is ‘better’ overall in anyone’s right mind, apart from the 8% more speed, is beyond me.

Thank god they didn’t also hit Ride The Lightning with the nerf bat is all I can say!

Ele’s have signet of air, which grants a perma 25% IMS. Soon Windborne Dagger will be an out of combat trait as well. So you’ll probably be able to stack Signet of Air and have 1 dagger equipped to get the effect you want instantly, which used to take however many seconds to acheive.

Windborne Dagger does not stack See here

True, also I would take Renewing stamina + Elemental attunement over Windborne dagger any time, so just like that I want to survive, can’t run at all when dead because I run out of Endurance….

Windborne Dagger will probably work with bunker eles that have low precision for renewing stamina, and already have access to vigor from cantrips.

DiogoSilva.7089:

Windborne Dagger will probably work with bunker eles that have low precision for renewing stamina, and already have access to vigor from cantrips.

Never had problems getting perma-vigor even in bunker spec, no need to trait that to cantrips. But that is a matter of preference I guess