Guild Wars 2

I just wanted to say I am excited about new runes, but I would like to take a moment to humbly ask the dev team to give Mesmers a 25% speed boost on a signet, as our other scholar classes have.

I would love to be able to give up my Runes of the Traveler to try a new rune set, but losing the base movement speed buff of 25% in WvW is really hard to do

I’ve been suggesting speed improvements for mesmers here and there, especially with regards to the bugged temporal curtain, and I second this idea. Signet of speed is one of the best and balanced solutions IMO. Others may be:

• a new rune (or 2 runes) which are actually universally useful for power mesmers and condition mesmers with +25% movement speed increase
• replacement of +33% daze duration in Runes Of Mesmer with a +25% movement speed increase; now yes, at this moment I’m sure some lockdown mesmers start yelling at me, so maybe a buff of 6th effect with speed or a separate similar rune (previous option) is a better idea
• a separate trait that can give us a movement speed increase (what about replacing Compounding Celerity with a +25% speed buff?)
• as a lighter option to the above one, a trait which increases only out of combat speed which balances it with profession mechanics used to evade in combat

Yeah, I don’t mind having to invest in a trait if we must, similar to the way engineers now have a 25% speed boost if they go 20 into inventions.

It’s just really frustrating to have to either use a runeset that gives swiftness on heal, or travelers.

Being left behind in WvW is not fun

Lishtenbird.2814:

• a separate trait that can give us a movement speed increase (what about replacing Compounding Celerity with a +25% speed buff?)

Yes please, great idea. When we have illusions out, we certainly aren’t running long distances anyway.