uhmm, i really don’t care about the lore part, it’s still breaks immersion.
what’s more immersive:
- teleport everywhere in a magical way
- ride to your destination on a mount
ill go for the mount any day.
For something to break immersion it would have to not fit into the world. And thus would have to in some way or form, break lore. Which WPs don’t do.
i play skyrim with the most lore breaking armors you can think of yet i don’t quick travel, it’s about immersing in the world and waypoints are the exact opposite.
I think people lose track of the point of this argument. Walking through an environment rather than teleporting is indeed more immersive. Riding through the environment on a mount is more immersive than WPing through it. However, riding faster than normal diminishes that environment. If you can get from point A to point B faster on a mount, it makes the space in between effectively smaller. Anet didn’t craft these beautiful environments for us to just speed past them on a mount, or fly over them. A mountain is less imposing when you can ride around it faster, or even fly right over it. So what is the point of the mountain if it is made meaningless by a mount? If a mount moves 30% faster than walking, then Anet would have to make the world 30% bigger to compensate, otherwise the world would effectively shrink. That’s 30% more work that doesn’t even need to be done.
BEFORE YOU SAY WPS ARE WORSE:
What about the part where you haven’t actually BEEN TO the WP in question yet? You can’t WP somewhere until you have walked there and unlocked the WP. Even then, there are still many mountains, rivers, valleys, and caves in between each WP that would be diminished by mounts.
Anyway, if they were to add mounts, they would need to remove the WP system because it would be totally redundant. Not to mention we already have runes, signets, swiftness, blink, shadowstep, portal, and leap abilities to move us around faster. The only thing a mount would truly add to the game is one more type of vanity to pursue. If that’s all you want, then fine, bring on the broomsticks and tunnel drills. Mounts with speed and flying buffs would break many of the things Anet worked very hard to create.
She would look so incredibly cute riding one! 
