Guild Wars 2

whats the Engi community thinking about these suckers? I just bought 6 for my P/D thief. Thinking of getting a set for my Ranger and Mesmer too.

I originally purchased them for my Engi since im about to switch to conditions, but I think perplexity is still better for that overall

I tested these briefly on my eng last night. As several threads in different class forums have agreed I think the best aspect of these runes is that you can then opt out of traits or abilities you felt were necessary because they granted swiftness. Swiftness is a 33% boost and this is 25% so its up to the player if the extra 8% is worth it. Personally, I was addicted to speedy kits and as such I had a hard time not having it in almost every build….especially a WvW one. So this rune is an alternative, albeit a currently expensive one, to get away from having to actively apply swiftness. Boon duration and condition duration on the same rune is pretty awesome…not to mention a modest stat boost to boot.
Ill be honest, after a years worth of speedy kits addiction it feels kind of refreshing to have a passive mobility boost. Kind of like driving a manual car for a long amount of time and then switching to an automatic. Ill be testing the runes more tonight so if I find something interesting I will try to post it.

Although I have not tried these runes I’m going to assume since you don’t gain swiftness you would also lose out on one of our strongest traits invigorating speed… so I just don’t see how the trade off could be worth losing 100% endurance regeneration that has the potential to be up 100% of the time.

understandable. perplexity it is for my engi

I still prefer speedy kits/invigorating speed on my Engie.

But these runes might work very nice on a mesmer.