Guild Wars 2

For the love of gawd Anet; give us a movement speed signet.

Signet of Midnight’s passive is sub-par.
Scrap it and give us 25% movement like almost every other class has.
Easy Fix!

Every class has the capability of being faster than Mesmer.
Ele, Necro, Ranger and Thief have a 25% Movement Speed Signet.
Warrior’s can trait for 25% speed as long as they have a melee weapon equipped.
Guardian’s get a 20 second Swiftness, and an 8 second swiftness on a 15s cooldown (Staff)
Engineers can slot speedy kits, and pretty much have perma swiftness out of combat.

Mesmer’s only movement increase skill is 12 second swiftness on a 25s cooldown and requires a focus be slotted in offhand. This limits build variety, as more often than not you end up in combat when you want to swap weapons. I personally want to dw swords, or sword/pistol, but I find that I’m pretty much required to slot a focus if i want to roam.

Hook us up anet.

(this time without q/a mode!)

They havent done it so far, so I doubt they will ever do it.

Personally, I have two sets of armour for WvW:
Berserkers/Knights mix with Centaur
Soldiers with Melandru

The first give perma-swiftness when roaming (traited mantra stack it), the other I use for zerging. It also allow me to equip the GS, which I think is the superior roamer weapon (though I always miss reflective Focus in larger groups).

So work with the kittenty non-speed you have and make a set with Centaur. Even if you use Ether Feast as heal that’s still about the same speed as a Focus, so you can slot that Sword/Sword if you want.

The way I see it, half the classes have passive movement speed.
The other half does not. We can get full Swiftness with runes + weapon, Guardian with weapons, Engineer with traits, Warriors with trait + weapons. None of that except maybe Guardian is quantitatively better IMO, they’re all bad.

Or… all good.

Depends on perspective. Only four classes have easy access to runspeed, though. Not 7.