Guild Wars 2

Every class gets 25% movement speed but Guardian… Rather it be from a signet or a trait, everyone else has it. Why is this? I really hoped that they would surprise us by finally giving us our much needed movement speed, but nope – still stuck being slow unless we run a staff and stand in a symbol to get swiftness or have someone in our group that can provide swiftness…

More often than not, I am solo roaming in WvW, people can literally just walk away from me in fights. I’d really like to see Anet do something about this since it has been the biggest Guardian complaint since day 1..

Guards do have access to high levels of swiftness.

Course I got tired of constantly swapping skills in to just keep up with a zerg, which is why I use traveler runes now.

Being forced to run staff while roaming isn’t really great. Also being forced to run travelers or speed runes is not a good answer either. The only other class that I remember needing to run traveler runes was Mesmer. I definitely shouldn’t need to give up Melandru runes to have movement speed, that is way too much toughness and negative condition/stun duration to give up to move faster.

A side note, I have a 3rd Greatsword that I have a sigil of speed on just so that I can grab a bunch of pve mobs every couple minutes, kill them, switch back to my normal GS and keep moving lol… That just doesn’t seem like it should be necessary.

“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Speed/Traveler Runes”

Best movie ever.

It’s pretty clear that we are not going to get a movement signet/trait. Travelers runes are a decent, all around PvE rune and I use them on my Ascended Zerker armor.

However, I have several sets of armor and weapons and I just converted my Assassin armor to Sinister and added Balthazar runes.

One thing people might consider is the Speed Sigil – especially when you’re in a more farmy area. You can stack several minutes of swiftness pretty easily and still run whatever rune you feel completes your build.

If you’re trying to get by with one set of gear, then you will always need to compromise in some area. Running a more than one set of gear allows you to be more specialized when you need to be.

I already gave it up…

Medi guards are as flashy as thiefs so everything is all right… A bunker spends 45 seconds to rotate out?!?! It’s all right…

We need an offensive movement speed rune set OR a trait…

UC granting swiftness while active was the best solution I’ve ever seen…

Run Hybrid condi, run scepter, watch people melt even if they try to run… It is wonderful.

Bash.7291:

Run Hybrid condi, run scepter, watch people melt even if they try to run… It is wonderful.

Burning is so strong for guardian atm.

Lytalm.5673:

Bash.7291:

Run Hybrid condi, run scepter, watch people melt even if they try to run… It is wonderful.

Burning is so strong for guardian atm.

Burning does no good if you are alone on the battlefield

It is a bit wonky for sure that options are limited for movement. You do have staff but even then you need to do the shuffle step to get full duration. Otherwise you will yet again fall behind. It is only a matter of time.

It is about choices though. Runes, sigils, food, traits, etc. I know on my Ranger I feel the same way as you do about lack of speed. I’d rather they remove it all or provide it as a baseline.

Bash.7291:

Run Hybrid condi, run scepter, watch people melt even if they try to run… It is wonderful.

hybrid condi build…me likey…… I think. what do you mean by that?

Traveler runes are the only way to fly. Unless you run Staff. I went traveler about 2 years ago and have never looked back. Now I run it on my Ranger and Mesmer as well. I primarily WvW, so they are a nice little buff to Golem speed also.

Jephiroth I have the same setting ahahaa
Traveler on Guard, Ranger and Mesmer specifically (… Ascended Celestial w/ Traveler)

Carbon Footprint.3421:

“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Speed/Traveler Runes”

Best movie ever.

“How other classes didn’t have to spend 65g to keep up”.

Best sequel ever.

Amins.3710:

Carbon Footprint.3421:

“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Speed/Traveler Runes”

Best movie ever.

“How other classes didn’t have to spend 65g to keep up”.

Best sequel ever.

Burning will get nerfed. Either way, we still should have a trait for this.

Sorry it is just annoying..