Guild Wars 2

Rand.3186:

The only posts here that bother me are Dogs. Why on earth do you keep comparing your elementalist to mesmer?

I have a fully decked out ele too. I think it’s completely kitten that I can stack up two minutes worth of swiftness just by running around and using a few select spells in my different attunements. Not to mention you can ride the lightning, flash, and if need be use magnetic grasp to juke someone out. Slowness debuff isnt a problem, plenty of condition removal. Eles have it better than most. As a side note, I fear no one on my ele..

Ele is the only class that is more mobile than my thief.

Stop worrying about who has the best get away. Who can run fast out of combat should not be a kitten contest.

I totally agreed… ele’s mobility needs a smack with the nerfbat. The dev’s said that immobilization should be the bane of an ele… but we all know that’s laughable with how well ele can remove conditions. At the same time it shouldn’t be too much to where they aren’t able to be one of the most moblie… just not by far the most mobile class in the game. Thieves should have a slight advantage in mobility over the other classes and it should scale down slightly for the other classes from there. ATM there is just TOO much of a gap.

I would also agree with reducing the overall number of classes that have access to permanent or near permanent speed boosts. It shouldn’t just be oh hey I have this trait or utility so I’m always faster /wave. That’s boring and not at all dynamic. It should come down to who has what off of cooldown as to who can successfully escape or not. That’s far more dynamic. Replace the permanent buffs/traits that allow classes to do this with more limited bursts of speed. As dog said earlier… it’s a boon, it isn’t something you are entitled to have <-this includes ALL classes.

Alllllll of that being said… mesmer has good mobility while in combat with staff/sword/focus/portal/blink use.

In sPvP it’s not as much of an issue as it is in WvW where you have large open areas. I really hope the dev’s start to balance WvW… for the WvW settings.

Out of combat mesmer is definitely on the same page as guardian… forced to take weapons/runes that not everyone really wants to use. On my guard I use runes of the pack on my guardian despite the fact that if this wasn’t an issue I would use something different… just like how on my mesmer I use rune of air (dear god I refuse to use kitten centaur).