Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 Mounts – Paid by Gem Store – Ground Mounts – Expansion bonus?

This topic talks about the inclusion of Mounts within the game. This aspect of MMO gaming has been talked about before, however not in significant detail. It’s clear implementing mounts would be more a want than a need, with the pre – existing use of way points, however as Guild Wars 2 strives to persuade and direct players into the exploration of the environment with use of vistas, points of interest and area completion, it seems odd way points were ever even introduced. Not to mention the seemingly expensive cost through high level way point use which can add up in the end. As Guild Wars 2 is free with no subscription, I believe the purchase through the gem store of ground mounts would find players gladly paying the money with no arguments, given the choice they have.

From a graphical and creative standpoint, I believe ArenaNet could really pull this off. I can only imagine what the mounts would look like, having a spider with armored gear or a huge bear are only some ideas, but it could really complete a players look. To be honest, i would much rather travel and complete area’s with a mount than teleporting and watching a loading screen.

Agree or disagree, I think many people would enjoy this inclusion of mounts within the game via Gem Store, not to mention the potential profit which is there for ArenaNet. If this was ever to happen, I believe it would make the most sense to be released within an expansion in the future, hopefully.

what good would mounts do? i dont think the set up of the maps and the travel system or the way running speed works in this game would make mounts compatible.

Mounts should be for Role Play purposes. We can transform in all sorts of things with the tonics, we can ware different costumes, why not add some mounts for the same reason with a few skills to them? That would be awesome.

Ronah.2869:

Mounts should be for Role Play purposes. We can transform in all sorts of things with the tonics, we can ware different costumes, why not add some mounts for the same reason with a few skills to them? That would be awesome.

it would completely change the dynamic of the maps. mounts work in open world games that are larger and aren’t limited to zones, on top of just the overall terrain of the maps, i do not think mounts are viable. the only reason it may seem to take a while to cover the area of a map is that the character movement speed is fairly slow without speed buffs. it is viable in a game like WoW because there are so few zoning instances that it allows for that lengthy travel, which then makes mounts and faster movement speed a handy tool. I can see mounts in this game being just as annoying to handle as a horse in skyrim trying to get up a mountain.

Wow, it must be International I-Can’t-Be-Arsed-Using-The-Search-Function-So-I’ll-Flood-The-GW2-Forums-With-Mount-Threads day or something.

uknortherner.2670:

Wow, it must be International I-Can’t-Be-Arsed-Using-The-Search-Function-So-I’ll-Flood-The-GW2-Forums-With-Mount-Threads day or something.

Just so you know, Your post is unintelligent and noncontributing. Every single person out there that you are upset with are not the same people. So don’t expect that scolding every one of them will have a effect.

Have a nice day.

runeblade.7514:

Just so you know, Your post is unintelligent and noncontributing.

So? Report me then if I offend you so much, or better still, use the ignore function – it’s what it’s there for!

As for my post being unintelligent and non-contributing, the same can be said for the flood of mount and raid spam that do the rounds every few days. Yes, it may not be the same people posting, but it’s no coincidence that every few days we get around three or four near-identical threads posted in one day by people who appear to view the search function as something that’s beneath them.

The game is not made for mounts.

While the extra speed is nice, I’ve never enjoyed the idea of collecting dozens of mounts and hiding them in a pocket dimension where they apparently need no food, water, or living space.

If mounts were to ever be introduced, I’d like them to be more realistic.

• You can only keep one with your character at a time
• Mounts require food/water to maintain (costs money)
• You’d have to keep them in a stable when not in use
• That stable requires payment to rent/use (costs money)
• You can rent mounts to an allies
• Good quality mounts are difficult / expensive (Almost like Legendaries, but the method would not be crafting)

They would need to add mounted combat. They would need to add places for this and redesign WvW around it. If that happens, mounts would be great, if not, no to mounts.

No. For the love of Christ, no.

Except seige elephants in WvW.

Bichpwner.4012:

They would need to add mounted combat. They would need to add places for this and redesign WvW around it. If that happens, mounts would be great, if not, no to mounts.

This is a very good point. With so many enemies scattered around mounted combat would be absolutely essential. Yes you can just run past most enemies but every so often you need to stop and fight at least some of them. In every single game with mounts and no mounted combat the whole process of stop, get down, fight, loot, get on, travel, stop, get down, fight, loot, get on etc. etc. gets so annoying that it puts me off using mounts unless I know it’s going to be a very long journey or they will provide some other benefit to balance it out.

And in GW2 you’d have to factor in gathering crafting components, speaking to NPCs to drop off collectables during certain DE’s, picking up those items in the first place, ways to get across all of the terrain that would be inaccessible to most normal mounts…

Basically the map just isn’t designed for mounts, in a lot of ways beyond way points and map size. You’d need to either completely re-design mounts or completely re-design the map and I don’t think either is worth it.

Mounts bad, please NO.

I prefer to have a teleport cost adjusted according to the area I am in.

Teleport is alternative to mounts it just needs to be adjusted. Mounts will kill the idea of wandering around and doing events randomly. I personally do not want another conventional MMO.

Vanity only, no mounting time, no speed bonus, no actual effect and it might work.
But this game needs other things done.

not implenting mounts would in my opinion be a waste of quite some possibilities, people here who instantly say ’’no’’ have yet to come with any valid reasons as to why not, nobody said they have to be faster they might as well just be eye candy, for which I’d still love to buy them, secondly faster mounts wouldn’t change kitten because you could also use a waypoint when you dont have a mount, so the entire comment about ‘’breaking dynamic events’’ is alot of bullshivik in my opinion that is ofcourse.

I personally prefer not to have mounts. I don’t find it fitting as a game mechanic for the game. I’d much rather prefer players walking/running, taking in all the landscape and feeling apart of it. Mounts would just be a way to skip past all of that. Sure you could make the speed the same and make sure it’s not OP, etc., etc., however it wouldn’t be the same feeling. Plus it would encourage players to skip DEs occurring around the map they’re in. So no mounts please! Play the game on foot, as it was designed, and how it should be.

Disagree ,but atleast use the Search function,we have topics about mounts,no need to keep creating another every single day. And what,Via Gem store ? Thats actually the worst idea ive read about mounts yet.Did you even considered Wvwvww,did you ever play it ? What about mounts there,where not everyone will have one but only peopl;e using Gem store ? Honestly,you didn’t even think this through,.but just shout MOUNTSSSS I WAANTTT THEMMMM,in a slightly different context offc.

I personally believe mounts in mmos is a greatly underestimated topic.
To mention another popular MMO Lord of the Rings Online, in Riders of Rohan expansion it introduced a new set of mounts, namely for mounted combat.
these mounts have redefined the player experience, re-freshening a nearly 5 year old MMO and making combat versatile fast paced and far more strategical.

I’m not trying to make a commercial for Turbine, I’m just trying to point out what mount and mounted combat is capable of doing for even an aging mmo.

Whilst LOTRO is limited by the lore of Tolkien’s works Guild wars can be far more versatile adding far more diversity such as flying and underwater mounts.

imagine riding a giant crab that can grab it enemies with pincers whilst your mounted elementalist sets strike him with lighting, or a small flying dragon that pours fire from above.

even more is the combat, itself between mounted opponents, that becomes a fierce dance to the likes of aerial dog-fights even when on the ground.

the one problem this has come to present in LOTRO is a severe case of lag, but should
GW2 be able to resolve this then it would be a great advancement to the game.

I’d love a mount just for the sake of having one to run around with. Even if it didn’t give any speed boost. Also I just love when people talk about realism in a game that has cat people and we shoot fireballs.

I think mounts are a good idea but never necessary, it would be nice to atleast have for walking around in lions arch with or when you are traveling because it’s something else you can look at with your character, it should be worth gems or some type of new quest. Guild wars 2 is going to be lacking quests at level 80 because once you reach that point, do dungeons and get everything you need, now what :/ I personally love this game and i play it everyday just a mount feature would be something new. Even make it so you can attack with a mount or give it a set of skills just make the attacks very weak so they cant really kill anything. Give it skills like roar, maybe a swiftness skill, sit, get off mount, a unique skill that may be different depending the mount. Also make it so your mount can get damaged or you can get knocked off of it and you take damage. Having a mount isn’t the best thing but i can see this game having it. I would still use waypoints either way because its really fast and at most it can be is a few silver which isnt too bad. I like the idea above though with realism like 1 mount at a time and if you want a new one you have to release it. You got to feed it and take care of it for it to run or it can die. You can give your pet to a shelter for someone to take care of it but you got to pay money.

I dont fully disagree on mounts. Trough not with the current game.
In the future content there should be maps or map areas that could be used mounted.

There might could be maps that are slightly bigger then the rest and the 1/3 of them could only be traveled with mounts, and had less waypoints.
Could even have some hearst, like race with npc-s. Fight some creatures you can only fight mounted.
Ofc those areas could only be accessed by mounts.

If you dont discard the idea of this, i also suggest make mounts that can be used as pets. That collect loot, buff speed out of combat somethimes. Or hold your alternate armor-weapons.

I can imagine a decent and good implementation on this. Players just have to forget the boring “speedbuff” they represent in other mmo-s.
Mount are and should be a core aspect of fantasy mmo-s.
If you discard this idea so spitefully you did not take up the cup gw2 represents. It was supposed to innovate current mmo genre. And yet they totalyl discarded mounts because it would have ben to bothersome to implement -_- . And not because it was souch a bad idea, or it should not be in the game.

When i think of it, Mass effect comes to my mind. When you race down the mountain that is abaut to errupt in flames and wargriders chasing you. You constantly dodge falling derbis and deflect arrows with yours shield or staff. Or shoot backwards with a bow like the Huns.
(personal story)
Ofc later on as game progresses i can see fly mounts in zones implemented for flight. But i imagine maps something more like the floating cityes in Bioshock3. And Castles on floating rocks and paltforms in the sky, like in Avatar.
If we are at the topic i was kind of dissapointed in Zhaitan battle…i imagined it something like The intro in Final fantasy mmo.

Many of you dont know but they ware planned-Artwork proof. Do to time shortage, like the 50% of the game’s content was left out, and was undeveloped. And that means to me, it will be added when they have the time, or the room for it. Maybe in an expansion. If you consider how insanely big Gw1 expansions ware, you better come to terms with the idea of a brand new way of Gw2 after expansion. -_-

The idea for mounts reminds me of the mmo age of conan abit. I loved there mount system just that game is getting butchered due to the staff adding pointless things ruining them when they were fine. Races would be amazing, hearts related to mounts only. I hate traveling in fireheart rise but a mount there would be so nice. Either it could be like a tiger or a horse or a new creature that is in the guild wars universe Mounts could be like a mini bank but they don’t hold much, maybe a few items, like for instance you could have a dolyak which has more storage then others but its very weak and slow. A tiger like creature could be faster and abit stronger just it doesnt have much storage. Maybe some mounts can be combat mounts aswell, pretty much like the idea of pets for rangers just they have different features. Each race could have it’s own type of mounts that work for it. A mount feature can work in this game if done right. Also if you have a personal story or something maybe you cant bring the pet there unless its a new mission where you need to race or bring a mount to do it.

“A mount feature can work in this game if done right”

By now, all Guild Wars players should have realize this….there are no stupid ideas, just bad implementations.
Considering how amazingly good devs we have, this should not be a problem to look forward to, but a feature redy to be exploited and explored.

I forgot about those images above, they shouldnt of cut those out. Guild Wars 2 has amazing staff, people are just too picky and sometimes get mad at them. All fanbases have those kind of people. They work hard and give us what we want. They currently have to keep fixing bugs like they just fixed up fractals. That is nice because there is so many times i have disconnected and now i can finally join instead of wasting all that time. I’m sure they could get mounts set just if they ever do make them it wont be for a long time. I was also hoping for player housing where you could spend money on a whole bunch of useless stuff. It sounds like a bad idea but im pretty sure people would use it, i know i would =P Just like mounts i would use.

I agree with the mounts, however you will still have loading screens to get to different zones. It helps keep the graphics requirements low and the coding simpler. But Mounts would be nice, if they granted say 40% increased run speed, with your mount taking the damage instead of the player. Once the mounts health is depleted, you are automatically kicked off your mount, and the mount gets stored for like 5 minutes if the mount completely dies, 2 min if it is put away with damage.

Something to that nature to prevent exploiting, but still be viable for use.

Elephant Mounts could take Heavy (Heavy Armor) damage but only run at 30% increase, War Mounts can take Medium (Medium Armor) damage and run at 35% increase, and Horse Mounts can take Light (Light Armor) damage but run at 40% increase of speed.

This would also give the players the ability to choose their method of travel and look.

do i want this to become emo mmo #294398327845? No. No mounts,,,,,,,ever.