Guild Wars 2

Loving my newly-80 Mesmer. I suck right now, but I’m getting better, and generally love classes with a high skillcap.

I’m currently running a pretty run-of-the-mill condition build in WvW. (the osicat condition build, to be exact) I mostly play in small groups or roam, so this build is working out great for me so far.

However, I feel super slow. Wondering if most people run Traveler or Centaur runes and sacrifice much of the DPS from runes, or if you are just super patient with running slow? As it stands, I can never chase anyone, because almost everyone has a run speed buff of some sort. How do you cope? I hate to lose the ~180 condition damage and extra confusion application and duration from my perplexity runes…

(The only solution I’ve found so far is to switch out a focus for my torch when I’m running — problem here is that I often forget to switch back to the torch before I engage and lose out on the torch condition clearing and condition application)

I’m sure this topic has been visited before, but the search feature on these forums is pretty much worthless, so I created a new one.

Thanks for your input!

For my black water spec with rabid gear I went cheap and got the runes of speed because I was just wanting the buff. Then I bought zerker gear for a shatter spec and went all out dropping 60g on traveler runes. ( with food and exotic only gear I sit at 94% crit) I can’t live without the speed simply because most everyone else has speed and I couldn’t keep up otherwise. My 2c.

I like Travellers too, condition & boon duration +speed

I love centaur runes, particularly in combination with the MoRec heal. You will lose stats, unquestionably- but you will have perma-swiftness which I personally find vastly more important in WvW. 2,620×2 healing on a 10s cooldown isn’t bad, either, especially in PU builds where the main weakness of mantras (casting) is protected by high stealth uptime.
edit: do also consider switching staff for Sword/Pistol. The cripple, immobilize, and stun allow for decent chasing abilities. Staff, while incredible, is a more defensive weapon.

Requiem.8769:

I love centaur runes, particularly in combination with the MoRec heal. You will lose stats, unquestionably- but you will have perma-swiftness which I personally find vastly more important in WvW. 2,620×2 healing on a 10s cooldown isn’t bad, either, especially in PU builds where the main weakness of mantras (casting) is protected by high stealth uptime.
edit: do also consider switching staff for Sword/Pistol. The cripple, immobilize, and stun allow for decent chasing abilities. Staff, while incredible, is a more defensive weapon.

Yes, I plan to get a Sword/Pistol for to replace the Staff when I want to go more offensive. The tweaks for that build are here

I think based on what you guys are saying (and what I continue to read) I am going to go Centaur. Still gives me a decent power boost, and the 100% uptime group swiftness is great. I will still have to decide between Mirror and MoRec — not sure on that one. =\

I run a hybrid condition/phantasm. Love my traveler’s runes.

Look at it this way:

1) Not being in range is a 100% damage debuff for you. It also means you cannot help allies with any support skills.

2) WvW has a lot of open ground to cover.

3) When roaming/running havok, swiftness isn’t always available. Zerging is another matter entirely.