Guild Wars 2

From jumping to underwater combat, Gw2 has added what gw1 lacked. Flying has been discouraged because of the map system in gw2. The developers don’t want people to just Fly over difficult arias. However, I believe its possible.

1. They could make it possible to fly over discovered arias only.

2. Flying could have a short duration so large arias cannot be flown over to skip content.

3.Along with short flight duration, flight could be given longer cool downs.

Benefits of flight would be aerial combat and a more free feeling environment.

Just no. (messages must 15characters….)

No. Flying would damage the game way more than help the game. If you can only fly for short durations, what is the point of aerial combat? It also gives leeway to getting stuck in the terrain and make siege warfare (wvwvw) pointless.

No, as the previous 2 posters said, it’d do more harm than good. It’s a neat idea, but realistically there’s no need for flying. Rather than being able to tell where people are, suddenly out of nowhere people drop down, kill stuff “griefing” you. It’s a neat idea, but I’d prefer that to stay in wow & other mmo’s, not my guild wars

I loved mounts (Including flying mounts) in WoW. The difference between WoW and gw2 is this.
Wow is in a sense real life (Just listen, don’t hate just yet). If you want to travel from A to B you have to either walk or find another ride (Assuming your hearthstone is on CD or not your destination). Even porting from the nearest city would still be a hike. WoW was HUGE (Good thing too) but lacked fast/ convenient player travel (Not good).

Now look at gw2.

Gw2 has two things that will stop them from having mounts which are:
A. Zones: There are so many portals to new maps that it would not be a good idea to have mounts(including flying) in the game. It would be pointless. You would be flying and then hit an invisible wall which would make you land and walk through the ground portal to remount and do it again.
B. Waypoints. Each map has about ten waypoints conveniently located throughout the map which makes the vast world so much smaller (thankfully they took King Louis’ XIV route).

Also, the word is areas not arias. I understand this may be your second language (don’t sweat it, just trying to help).
Hope that helps.
-SPQGW2

I wouldn’t be opposed to this in specific new zones that were designed for it, but only in those new zones. Retrofitting it to existing areas will do more harm than good.

No.

No. Jumping puzzles would become redundant and people will start complaining about glitchy graphics and being unable to fly over the racial cities.

I was thinking along the lines of low flight not flying way up into the sky and over mountains and they could add a npc around jumping puzzles to explain no flight over jumping puzzle arias.