Guild Wars 2

Hi all.

I encountered a warrior several times in WvWvW EB on top of the small cliff between uplands and SM. What she was trying to do was lure people to the edge of the cliff and do a whirlwind attack. This applies fear to some people and they fall down the cliff and die. Now she couldn’t do this to me because of one of my traits that negates cc every few seconds so I usually get her HP quite low and she is forced to run.

When she runs, I can never catch her. She runs so fast and she gets to outrun me and escape. I’m a roaming ranger with a greatsword and sword/dagger so I have three leaps in my arsenal and I have never really encountered any class who can outrun me often. I’ve only seen her use whirlwind attack and rush when trying to escape.

So my questions are:

1. The fear on hit, is that a trait or a sigil? I have a warrior but only got him to 80 and stopped so I don’t know all traits. I don’t know all sigils as well and can’t do much research because I’m at work.

2. The run speed, I’m guessing she’s using superior runes of speed (I noticed that the fury and might disappears first before the swiftness from SoR), but is the added 5% bonus really that big of an addition to the speed? Is there a trait that would stack to the run speed of swiftness+ runes of speed?

Thanks all!

Hey, the fear is most likely “fear me” shout

Yup, definitely “fear me”. She could have been using the whirlwind attack at the same time to evade your attacks (fear me is an insta-cast shout).

As for the speed, Warriors have easy access to swiftness and the whirlwind, rush, are great. She could also have been using Bull’s Charge which looks a bit like rush. If she had a sword in her other weapon set, she might have been using Savage Leap as well (but you probably would have noticed that).

Runes of Speed though… I’ve always heard that the 5% bonus doesn’t stack with swiftness. If it does…. I’M GETTING THEM!!!

Warriors can maintain swiftness permanently through use of SoR and Warhorn easily. If she was utilising all her leaps and charges (Savage leap on the sword, rush and whirlwind on the greatsword, maybe even Bulls charge) effectively while maintaining swiftness then I’m not surprised that she was hard to catch.

The runes of speed bonus does indeed not stack with swiftness, which is totally dumb in my opinion but ok.