Guild Wars 2 Mount Racing Making a Mountain out of a Wurmhill. The return of the Mad King on 16 October brought a whole host of old and new content with it. After Robin took us through why we According to the wiki the price for the +30 swim infusion is actually 24245 Gold. Which is still a heck of a lot, but still. It's gonna drown now. If you mount up the skimmer, then take a waypoint that is underwater you'll stay mounted but rapidly ascend to the surface. Skimmer Mount. Tier. 5. Experience. 2,000,000. “. Before completion: Use all you've learned to teach your skimmer to dive underwater. After completion: Train your skimmer to dive below the water's surface. — In-game description. [PSA] You can show off your underwater weapons while on land if you mount up on a skimmer while underwater, and then just stay on it forever [Other] From Guild Wars 2 Wiki. Double-click to unlock this skimmer mount skin for your account. — In-game description. Cozy Wintersday Skimmer is a Skimmer mount skin. EDIT: also, according to the Wiki, the ones with the least amount of premium skins are the Skimmer (only 2) along with the Warclaw (only 1, but it also has the Guild themed one, so I'd say that's 2) Skyscale and Beetle, and since both of the latter just got new ones, I'd say either Skimmer or Warclaw is up next. I'd bet on Skimmer. Now it makes sense why the Skimmer underwater mastery was added! It seems apparent that the new boats will effectively replace the Skimmer as ways of travelling over water (I imagine), and so Anet didn't want to be left with a completely redundant mount. Hopefully it still has some versatility coming out of the new expansion. The Domain of Istan is a map released following the story events of the second Guild Wars 2 expansion, Path of Fire. a race will start. To compete, you must have a Skimmer Mount, and during Convenience aside, since I've unlocked the mastery, I like to dive at random locations just to appreciate underwater sceneries. Devs have put a lot of effort in many of them. Somehow it is much more fun with the speed and all the effects of skimmer diving. The biggest disappointment though is that you cannot mount up while you're underwater. Walkthrough. This race circles the Western Complex and cuts through the ground level of Rata Primus. Much of the race is over water, so the skimmer is the best choice. The skimmer is given a special action skill, Geyser Boost, that allows boosting much higher into the air than Ride The Wind. At several spots throughout the race, reaching the acmhXc.