I've been playing for several months, and have created 2 characters, a human Fire/Staff, and an Elf Sword/Knife who has become a Druid/knife. My Fire guy has no way to increase run speed, except to use the Alchemy potions Bleeding Speed and Agonizing speed. They are nice, but don't last very long and if I used them as often as I wanted to, I'd be spending a lot of time making them. My Druid currently has Hunter's Stride 2, which is a tad faster then no speed boost at all. Even when I have it active, players will go streaking by and leave me in their dust. The current event is a constant speed boost about like the Bleeding Speed potion. Not great, but certainly better than no boost at all. ~~ What I would love to see is a system where all character's run speed would increase by player level, perhaps a permanent speed increase at every 5 levels, or 10 levels. The more I play, the more getting places seems to take forever.