Guild Wars 2

Is there any kind of perma sprint ability? I’m not seeing much in the way of speed boosts for the mesmer.

focus and teleport. I dont see not having one of those as an option for wvw.

^ agreed. It’s horrible running in the back most of the time. Thieves seem to get perma speed. My buddy always leaves me behind when we are grouped. I am forced to use the Focus and Teleport or get left behind.

It really sucks.

A lot of mesmers have compensated for this with rune setups (e.g. Rune of the Centaur). When you’re running with a large enough group you usually get hit with Swiftness buffs as long as you don’t fall too far behind.

My main gripe is the speed buff from Focus doesn’t “refresh” your swiftness; if you already have swiftness it won’t refresh the duration. So if you accidentally use it before your current Swiftness runs out you get nothing.

I’m pretty much pidgeonholed into focus and blink, even when I’m specced for dueling/roaming and would much rather bring along a pistol.

The focus is just so kitten good in comparison to the other offhands, especially in WvW. I’m already anticipating another round of nerfs.

After playing my Engineer, I can no longer play my Mesmer. Just too darn slow.

On Engineer, every time you toggle a kit (or refresh a kit), you get 5 seconds of swiftness. It has an internal 5 sec CD. But Medkit #5 gives 10 seconds of swiftness on 20 sec CD, and stacks with this 5 second swiftness.

Meaning,
Swap to Medkit → +5 second swiftness → 5 seconds remaining
Medkit #5 → +10 second swiftness → 15 seconds remaining
-5 seconds later-
Refresh Medkit (just tap Medkit hotkey) → +5 seconds → 15 seconds remaining
-5 seconds later-
Medkit #5 → +10 second swiftness → 20 seconds remaining
Refresh Medkit → +5 second swiftness → 25 seconds remaining

In other words, every 20 seconds you gain 10 seconds to your swiftness, which stacks.

Really quite awesome. And this is not counting traits that give 5 seconds of swiftness on crit, or +10% speed whenever you run with a grenade/mine/mekittenit (though sadly this doesn’t stack with swiftness).

Throw in Super Speed on Slick Shoes → 100% speed increase for 5 seconds, and it’s bye-bye birdie.

My Mesmer by comparison feels like a crawling brick. Sad, really.

eh..each battleground is about half the size of any of the frontiers in the original daoc, and base run speed is quite a bit faster than that game had

you can do fine without focus or blink – i generally run gs/sword/pistol for wvw unless it’s a siege, then temporal curtain ripping people off walls/carts becomes too important.

Sabbathius.1465:

After playing my Engineer, I can no longer play my Mesmer. Just too darn slow.

On Engineer, every time you toggle a kit (or refresh a kit), you get 5 seconds of swiftness. It has an internal 5 sec CD. But Medkit #5 gives 10 seconds of swiftness on 20 sec CD, and stacks with this 5 second swiftness.

Meaning,
Swap to Medkit -> +5 second swiftness -> 5 seconds remaining
Medkit #5 -> +10 second swiftness -> 15 seconds remaining
-5 seconds later-
Refresh Medkit (just tap Medkit hotkey) -> +5 seconds -> 15 seconds remaining
-5 seconds later-
Medkit #5 -> +10 second swiftness -> 20 seconds remaining
Refresh Medkit -> +5 second swiftness -> 25 seconds remaining

In other words, every 20 seconds you gain 10 seconds to your swiftness, which stacks.

Really quite awesome. And this is not counting traits that give 5 seconds of swiftness on crit, or +10% speed whenever you run with a grenade/mine/mekittenit (though sadly this doesn’t stack with swiftness).

Throw in Super Speed on Slick Shoes -> 100% speed increase for 5 seconds, and it’s bye-bye birdie.

My Mesmer by comparison feels like a crawling brick. Sad, really.

you’ll feel even faster as a thief or ele with less effort.

Good WvW play = groups.
Group is as fast as the slowest member in the group. (If a group is leaving you behind, then find a better organized group

self buffs – too many times do I hear complaints from our thieves that they are running too fast. (again based on WvW being about groups, and thieves having to constantly stop and start) <- trade out that passive trait for something more useful for the group!
group speed buffs are where its at. have a Mesmer, Ranger and a guardian in the group and rotate group speed buffs for high mobility.

Solo WvW, opponent speed control > self speed buffs.

Mesmer sword, pistol and focus all allow us more control over our enemy in 1v1, 1v2 etc.

just my 2c

Centaur Runes + Healing Mantra.

The centaur runes seem to have a 15 second CD despite it saying 10s, but its possible to keep it up long enough with a focus and 3 uses of the mantra at the right times.

About to hit level 30 but I’ve found a combination of Blink and the temp speed boost you get from that off hand thingy can help you keep up if not get ahead of the crowd. Of course as it’s not one of my main weapon set ups, I’m always in the Equipment screen switching it out for my pistol.