Guild Wars 2

Xyonon.3987:

I wouldn’t care if they would introduce a “Superior Rune of Illusions” =_=

Good Idea :P

• Superior Rune of Illusions
  (1) +25 Precision
  (2) -5% cooldown on Illusion summoning skills.
  (3) +50 Precision
  (4) Illusions gain Distortion(1s) when you dodge.
  (5) +100 Precision
  (6) -15% cooldown on Illusion summoning skills; gain one stack of might(10s) whenever you create an Illusion
• Superior Rune of Illusions/Superior Rune of Shatter
  (1) +25 Power
  (2) Gain one stack of might(10s) whenever an illusion is destroyed or shattered
  (3) +50 Power
  (4)
  (5) +100 Power
  (6) Illusions gain distortion(20s) when you shatter.
• Superior Rune of Illusions/Superior Rune of Clones
  (1) +25 Condition Damage
  (2) 50% to create a clone when hit. (10s CD)
  (3) +50 Condition Damage
  (4) Create a Clone when you interrupt a foe.
  (5) +100 Condition Damage
  (6) Clones apply bleed(4s) and torment(4s) on death.
• Superior Rune of Illusions/Superior Rune of Phantasms
  (1) +25 Power
  (2) Phantasms apply area 2 stacks might(8s) when they attack.
  (3) +50 Power
  (4) Phantasms gain distortion when you dodge.
  (5) +100 Power
  (6) Phantasms deal 15% more damage.

Any thoughts? (except the fact that we’ll never get this)

Good ideas and wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility if not for the fact that literally only mesmers could use them.

Take rune of the trapper for example. I was surprised they were introduced due to the limited cross profession use (only ranger/thief). This would be difficult, but if there was a way to make it work for generic AI you might be on to something. That way necromancers (minions), guardians (spirit weapons), engineers (turrets), and to some degree rangers (spirits) could all potentially use it. I wouldn’t include AI spawned from elites.

With all due respect, the absolute last thing we need more of in-game is Runes that enable class mechanics to “work right.” These issues are major enough to the profession as a whole that we need to entreat ANet to handle biz at the source.
After saying that, I’d fully support any means of making changes like those internal to Mesmers; for instance, via Trait alteration.

Advent.6193:

After saying that, I’d fully support any means of making changes like those internal to Mesmers; for instance, via Trait alteration.

This!

+1

I’m with Advent. You should not try to fix class mechanics by requiring the players of that class to take a particular rune set.

I’m not sure why we’d make more Rune of Illusions/Mesmer when we already have one, thus nobody’s going to change. I suppose though we could just condense it to what Mesmers want/need/are actually taking in runes these days.

(1) Grants 25% movement speed
(2) Grants 25% movement speed
(3) Grants 25% movement speed
(4) Grants 25% movement speed
(5) Grants 25% movement speed
(6) Grants 25% movement speed
-Effects do not stack-

lol @ Ross Biddle.

At release, Temporal Curtain / Veil could be run through multiple times to stack Swiftness/Stealth.

At release, standing in a Guardian symbol would only refresh the boon, not stack it.

2 years after release, running through Temporal Curtain / Veil does not even refresh the boon … and Veil’s stealth was nerfed to be less than stealth from a combo.

2 years after release, standing in a Guardian symbol stacks the boon.

… still scratching my head on this one …

Yea. Cause Mesmers with acceptable OOC speed are OP, Sebrent. At least, that’s the vibe I get from almost 3 years of unstackable Temporal Curtain.