Guild Wars 2

Hey you,

I did not test it yet, but as I already feel to be slower than other classes in PVE, mainly with exploring maps and completing zones, I was a little bit curious about the low mesmer speed as I read the news about the added event to chase a skritt burglar.
So I began to wonder how is that supposed to work?
Can you manage that as a mesmer? Do other classes with their speed buffs have a slight advantage?

I was just not really satisfied with the low speed before, but after they added a content which focusses on that, I don’t know…

Any comments or ideas? Have you tried it yet?

Sure, I will try that out, but I wanted to discuss it with your feelings or experience you’ve made so far.

Cheers!

I haven’t come across it myself. But I’m hoping that my exploration loadout of Sword/Focus and GS will be enough to do something about him with the Temporal Curtain and iBerserker crippling.

I also have Rune of the Centaur equipped for more speed if I need it.

And you have the illusionary leap for a few seconds of immobilize and blurred frenzy xD But i don’t really know what the event is about though. Where does it happen?

For everyone who doesn’t know what I am talking about, I am referring to: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/22/whats-next-for-guild-wars-2
(Their announcement in their patch notes from 22th october regarding that event isn’t really helpful.)

I agree that the skills you mentioned could help, but I don’t like the idea to feel forced (I know no one is forcing me!) to wear special runes in my armor to be as fast as other classes and to be able to compete in that kind of content (it seems a little bit like a speed contest for me and I am asking myself if a mesmer is competitive enough to enjoy the fun chasing the skritt burglar with other classes/ players ^^)

Well, I’ll have to figure that out..

That makes sense.

The reason I took Rune of Centaur was for the +power stats to balance out my Ravager’s gear. I have all Berserker’s stuff in Rings/Accessories/Weapons. The speed boost was a nice bonus. But I guess this is another topic altogether.

Blink would probably help with the burglar. I can’t live without it so I have it on no matter what setup I have.

But again I’ve not seen this skritt myself so this is all theorycraft on my part

It’s no secret that mesmers have the weakest movement kit of any class in terms of swiftness uptime. Additionally, the only passive trait that increases movement speed requires illusions to be out, which we can’t do it in combat.

I have not spotted him, but is t the point to kill him? Unless he has swiftness that doesn’t sound hard. We have numerous ways to kill at range, cripple, knockdown, daze or stun him. Do we need swiftness to get it done? Maybe, not sure yet.