Guild Wars 2

You know what I would want for this next Christmas Patch? I know I might be going on a little selfish here, and I haven’t been too good this past year on the forums, so at least do this for everyone else…..plz……

The only thing I want for this next patch is,…

The Addition of Swiftness to Prismatic Understanding. All other classes have access to swiftness in their Class utilities, and it seems like we are the only ones forced to take certain undesirable weapons and Runes to compensate our lack of movment whether it is during combat or OOC.

So, why you ask, Santa? Because the boons listed in the PU right now
(Aegis, Protection, Regen), is part of what I like to call the Defensive Boons Family-

Regen, Aegis, Protection, Stability, Vigor, and finally, Swiftness……

So we already have Regen, Aegis, Protection, Stability, and Vigor… I am wondering if it is at all possible to add Swiftness to PU… So. Yeah..

I hope you will take into consideration. This will by far make one of the most impactful thing so far happening to our class(yes, better than IC in my own opinion), since all other different builds in our class have decent mobility except ones made up of PU. Plz take this into kind consideration. Thank you for reading this.

If you can’t find the time to read this or if you don’t like my idea, well, at least give it some consideration before final decision and discuss whether this is possible or not. Thank you again.

NO!!! Swiftness is POINTLESS during a battle. If you add swiftness to PU then the other useful buffs will have a lower percentage chance of procing.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

I feel like proper credit for this post idea was not given. This post was originally posted here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/The-only-thing-I-want-by-x-mas-for-Mesmer.

You have chosen to post this, and yet did not give any credit to Taldren for taking his post. The only reason i care is because it was an awesome post, and i love all awesome posts.

Aparently you saw this post, and got these ideas.

1. Posting about swiftness gets people attention
2. I love attention and will do anything for it.

Please give credit to peoples post if you are going to steal from them. Yes you asked for swiftness in PU but it’s basically asking for swiftness for Christmas, and i think the author of this post should have been given credit in your post.

Hexxen.7216:

NO!!! Swiftness is POINTLESS during a battle. If you add swiftness to PU then the other useful buffs will have a lower percentage chance of procing.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

Ummmmm…. In combat, a person with swiftness is faster than a person w/o it….

But being faster is useless right?

Yes, I admit I saw the post, and I give acknowledgement in stating that that person wanted Swiftness as well. However, I want it to be a part of PU. I think it will become very very very interesting if it happens.

But Jester, tone it down a little I have stated already that I am sorry for yesterday. I do not need continuation onto a topic designed to help players overall and increase Mesmer effectiveness in combat. It feels like you want to continue this topic, and don’t realize that I just wanted to give credit to Xelnock, too. If that is so much of a sin to you, then you must rethink your moral list and come talk to me over PM.

Jester.1236:

I feel like proper credit for this post idea was not given. This post was originally posted here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/The-only-thing-I-want-by-x-mas-for-Mesmer.

You have chosen to post this, and yet did not give any credit to Taldren for taking his post. The only reason i care is because it was an awesome post, and i love all awesome posts.

Aparently you saw this post, and got these ideas.

1. Posting about swiftness gets people attention
2. I love attention and will do anything for it.

Please give credit to peoples post if you are going to steal from them. Yes you asked for swiftness in PU but it’s basically asking for swiftness for Christmas, and i think the author of this post should have been given credit in your post.

+1 internets to you.

Guys, I clearly stated how sorry I am for unclear choice of words. Apparently you thought that me trying so dang hard to give credit to Xelnock was a bad choice on my part and jeopardizing the build. It was not my intention. I felt kind of bad that Xelnock did not recieve as attention as BlackDevil did, when they both brought up basically same build and core. I know the effectiveness of that build, so it drove me more to try to make people give credit to Xelnock. Again I am sorry and I hope you forget it. I seriously want people to acknowledge Xelnock some time soon.

Wow, my post was deleted in my last post, buts it’s funny about how it was in relation to your issue with “intellectual property” Menace and the issue you had with it… on topic I hope this does no happen, whilst I agree Mesmer needs out of combat mobility, I sincerely hope it doesn’t come in this form, people already whinge unjustly about PU builds, let’s not give them a real reason to cry for nerfs. +1 to you Jester, great post.

Listen, I don’t really understand why people are still whining over this. I really don’t. The first post I had made about this topic was addressed as such: I do not want to offend BlackDevil or anyone else I was just giving my side of opinion and how it seems very strange that Xelnock was not mentioned. Maybe you guys forgot him, but I decided to give partial credit to him. Then you guys seemingly jumped in and said oh it’s not about property and such. Yes it is. Admit it. If I unintentianally made a build very similar to yours, you would go on saying it is a carbon-copy of your build. You have said that quite a lot in the forums, and I was just addressing as carefully as possible that Xelnock needs some partial credit, as the way I see it, the new build was in a way a variation of the build. I just want people to remember that there was someone else who also gave the same dedication to that build. That being Xelnock. I really don’t want to continue talking about this any more.

themenaceofseventhdimension.2075:

Admit it. If I unintentianally made a build very similar to yours, you would go on saying it is a carbon-copy of your build.

No, actually we wouldn’t because Very Similar and Carbon-Copy have very different meanings. Still wondering how you are not calling yourself out for having the exact trait distribution as BW?

To the person who said swiftness in battle makes you faster and how is that useless? I admit being faster in battle lets you close gaps, potnetially being able to catch someone running away but adding swiftness to PU is pointless and an all around nerf because the current three buffs (depending on who you are talking to regen might not be included in this) are amazing defensively. Swiftness really lets you run away or potentially catch someone running from you. It will not save you from conditions it will not save you or help you when you take a hit like pro and aegis. Right now the three proc 33.33% of the time if you add in a fourth buff they all go down to 25% procrate and you will not get the MORE useful buffs that it already has. Also, I have never actually said to myself “Man I really want swiftness right now so that I can own this guy.” I have said “Boy if I had swiftness I could catch his scared butt and kill him.” but then I tell myself “O well he is a coward and running away so really I won anyway.”

Dear Santa (ANet), I want a mainhand pistol, a +speed sigil, a portal distance tracker, a mini Pyroatheist that I can… uhh… explore with?

I am not asking for a MH Pistol, or a portal distance tracker, nor a mini Pyroatheist. All I am askin is some sort of sustained ability to catch up to enemies. We all have different opinions on the immediate neediness of this boon, but we can all agree on the fact that it annoys the heck out of us. A lot of other classes say we are OP at dueling, but this is not the case in WvW. Unless you can burst an opponent Super Fast in the beginning, at the cost of Armor, you are not able to take away their ability to run away. I know it seems like I am whining and such, but I just want people to come up with creative ideas to include Swiftness other than way of Signets or Runes.

I have never posted on these forums before, but this is such a badly thought out idea that it warrants expressing myself. No one wants this terribad idea screwing up their mesmers. If trolling, I fell for it, nice work.

If this idea is a terrible idea, then I guess you must be trollin. I usually don’t say this to other people, since I know how much I have been told like that in the past, but if this idea of adding Swiftness to the Mesmer without use of Runes or Signets are bad, well, just hope you feel glad if a patch comes that gives us real swiftness, and not some 25% or 30% that seems very situational. Again, I hope you have success in the game and forums from this point on, but I wish you would stop commenting like that.

Good lord, no. PU is for defense, and Aegis/Prot/Regen are perfect for it. I would hate to lose uptime on those for some swiftness I don’t even want.

themenaceofseventhdimension.2075:

Unless you can burst an opponent Super Fast in the beginning, at the cost of Armor, you are not able to take away their ability to run away.

You need to be more creative. I run a PU power phantasm build, and I have no trouble catching people – GS cripple, pistol stun, blink, illusionary leap/immobilize, traveller runes. Trust me, it’s really hard to escape from that.

If you play a build with weak direct damage, no speed buffs, no iZerker or Magic Bullet or Temporal Curtain, and then expect people to die to your condition pressure, of course they’re going to run away.

Dear santa. i would like a main hand pistol and more aoe/ zerg abilities for the mesmer. im fine with being slow and all, but i would like to move away from the veil/tw bot role in wvw which is very very very very very boring!

Jester.1236:

I feel like proper credit for this post idea was not given. This post was originally posted here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/The-only-thing-I-want-by-x-mas-for-Mesmer.

You have chosen to post this, and yet did not give any credit to Taldren for taking his post. The only reason i care is because it was an awesome post, and i love all awesome posts.

Aparently you saw this post, and got these ideas.

1. Posting about swiftness gets people attention
2. I love attention and will do anything for it.

Please give credit to peoples post if you are going to steal from them. Yes you asked for swiftness in PU but it’s basically asking for swiftness for Christmas, and i think the author of this post should have been given credit in your post.

LOL the sarcasm is strong in this one.

Btw, I agree swiftness is one of the better defensive boons, and I’d go as far as saying that swiftness probably prevents more damage while roaming than protection does O.o.

Id like id swiftness took the place of regen, but there are people who actually use healing power just for that regen… So, its a bad idea :/.

Meh, I get where you are coming from (menace and Taldren) but I think we should leave pu alone. It’s a fine trait how it is, it’s effective and does what it is suppose to, why would we alter a trait like that?

Alissah.9281:

Id like id swiftness took the place of regen, but there are people who actually use healing power just for that regen… So, its a bad idea :/.

I am use PU for the regen in my build so I am not unbiased but taking away the regen takes away a very strong counter to conditions that you have on you while you. Really for anything the regen will help with conditions and swiftness won’t really, at least with the ones that are already on you.

Yes, swiftness some how; hellz to the no giving it to PU.

Hexxen.7216:

I am use PU for the regen in my build so I am not unbiased but taking away the regen takes away a very strong counter to conditions that you have on you while you. Really for anything the regen will help with conditions and swiftness won’t really, at least with the ones that are already on you.

Yes, swiftness some how; hellz to the no giving it to PU.

Ditto.

Though with access to blink / some control from weapon sets / and traveller runes the only one I have issues stopping them from running away is the warrior, and only if I used badly my cards.

Another way to get swiftness aside from random chaos storm & curtain (which doesn’t stack, top job!) would be helpful, but not at the expense of adding more randomness to PU.

Please no add swiftness to PU, is useless, PU is a very nice defensive trait, if you want swiftness, they maybe modify some signet or whatever but no PU, also u can use rune of Centaur or Traveler

Anarchy.9703:

Dear Santa (ANet), I want a mainhand pistol, a +speed sigil, a portal distance tracker, a mini Pyroatheist that I can… uhh… explore with?

“explore”, aye, Usagi?

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ot: I don’t think PU needs swift. A way to get it or a way to get +25% speed outside of traveler runes would be nice, though.

PU Is already one of the strongest traits in the game atm.

No. Swiftness is not as good as the boons PU currently gives.

What I’d love for “alternative” swiftness would be something like “Signet of Inspiration only provides Swiftness or Aegis outside of combat” – since those are the only ones you need when running around. Swiftness to go faster, and Aegis to block hits that would put you in combat. Better option than a new 25% signet imo; you’d get 50% swiftness uptime on average, which can easily be augmented with boon duration / etc.

The other thing they need to do is fix Temporal Curtain… they fixed the Guardian symbol, so clearly it’s not impossible.

selan.8354:

Dear santa. i would like a main hand pistol and more aoe/ zerg abilities for the mesmer. im fine with being slow and all, but i would like to move away from the veil/tw bot role in wvw which is very very very very very boring!

^ +1

My wish list exactly.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PU IS FINE.

Alright, I have other things I want besides Swiftness, too.

As you guys have kindly listed them out…

1. Another Source of Bleeding ranged Weapon besides offhand pistol. Maybe addition of bleed to Scepter or even a new ranged bleed weapon(MH pistol anyone?)

2. A good source of constant AoE damage pumpout. maybe even 1/6 of the capabilities of a Necro, but I wouldn’t care. As long as it is aoe and sustained. I feel like Debilitating Dissipation seems too random

3. I also hope they increase the bleed pump chance out in Debilitating Dissipation….

I hope they don’t focus so much on bleed and give us back some of our confusion damage. Focusing on bleeds just seems so “Necro”.