Guild Wars 2

I can’t be the only person who dropped a bunch of gold on it just for the ooc mobility.

Its no nice being able to keep up with other people in WvW.
Second best 50ish g I ever spent.

So tempting……. :o

It’s an exploit and will get removed pretty quickly I imagine. I wouldn’t waste my money on it.

I was going to get a set of travellers runes and the axe worked out to be cheaper amusingly enough.

I don’t understand how this lets you keep up with other players

hmm what is this axe you’re talking about, what does it do?

Moaning Marv.2194:

hmm what is this axe you’re talking about, what does it do?

The Executioners Axe, its part of the executioner costume that you can get from the gem store.

SrebX.6498:

I don’t understand how this lets you keep up with other players

The 2 skill on it is a 600 dash on a 3 second cooldown, basically you throw it on while moving around and spam it as you would any other leap/dash.

No doubt this exploit will be removed, so you just wasted 50g you could have spent on 7 speed runes (19g). 7 traveler runes is around 60g instead, which is little extra cost from 50g to get something permanent.

But hey if you want to take the risk, go ahead lol.

I’d hardly call it an exploit, its just a dash.

Its not like its actively effecting balance in any negative way, especially since it only works ooc.

clipnotdone.9634:

I’d hardly call it an exploit, its just a dash.

Its not like its actively effecting balance in any negative way, especially since it only works ooc.

Are you kidding me? You bought it for the sole purpose of disrupting WvW out of combat movement speed balance and you’re trying to claim that it doesn’t disrupt that game mode at all? Ok.

I just tried it out. It’s not really so OP.

At the end of the dash you stop to swing the axe which loses you quite a lot of the speed gain.
I haven’t examined it in detail but it didn’t seem any advantage over the speed runes that I use.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Are you kidding me? You bought it for the sole purpose of disrupting WvW out of combat movement speed balance and you’re trying to claim that it doesn’t disrupt that game mode at all? Ok.

I fail to see how keeping up with other classes is somehow gamebreaking.
Its no faster than the dashes that other classes have access to.

Exploit: The use of game mechanics to achieve an unintended and undesired result.

If you really think the devs intended for a costume brawl skill to be used as a movement speed stim in WvW, then you’ve got another thing coming.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Exploit: The use of game mechanics to achieve an unintended and undesired result.

If you really think the devs intended for a costume brawl skill to be used as a movement speed stim in WvW, then you’ve got another thing coming.

I cant imagine them thinking a dash would be used for dashing.

You know, like every other dash in the game.
No, surely they’d never think of that.

Given that you can buy speed boosters to more or less the same effect, in combat, with less effort, I cant imagine the folkes over in balancing would be to upset over this being a thing.

Other than the swiftness, Speed runes are pretty terrible btw.

Eh can’t see why this is a problem, out of combat only…. Reindeer tonics also have a charge if im correct >_>

Xavi.6591:

Other than the swiftness, Speed runes are pretty terrible btw.

That’s true. But for a Mesmer in WvW, speed is a major problem. You have the choice of Traveler at 10g each or speed runes (or stick with a focus). Anything else will have you moving too slowly to keep up.

Don’t forget Centaur runes.

I personally rate centaur runes higher than Speed, but ugh, I so wish the price on Traveller was a little more sane.

And regarding the costume trick, at least it must be pretty annoying to constantly use it to make up for any perk it gives.