Guild Wars 2

Hello! I have been thinking about how we could add mounts into the game. I know a lot of you will say ‘We dont need mounts!’ and to that i’ll say, i completely agree. but listen to my idea. What if there were mounts that gave 33% speed boost, like most speed boost skills, for as long as you are riding it? and if you cast a spell while on the mount you would be dismounted so that there isn’t mount combat. it wouldn’t give any player stats just 33% speed boost. in WvW this could be very fun/good. Anet could even make some legendary mounts, and for that i have a special idea. For legendary mounts, you would have to do a slightly smaller legendary grind, but depending on your race, depends on the basic look of it. if you were asura, it would look maglyphic. if you were charr, it would be steampunky, if human, it would kinda be like the rock dog elite skill, but a horse. if sylvari, it would be a tree horse, if norn, it would be ice kinda horse, with the effect of the d/d ele #2 ability. also, all mounts would be ground AND horse based. i think it would also be cool to have guild horse tabards. so you could have horse cloth armor only for your guild, and they would be guild color’s. and if it didn’t have the guild thing, you could dye the tabard thing (if you had one on it). Ofc we dont NEED mounts, but it would be cool. i will be making a quick sketch of a mount idea asap and posting it as a reply to this. also, you can get your first mount at level 40, 1/2 done leveling,but it would cost like 5 gold so that it would be a challenge to get. but you couldn’t upgrade from 33% at all, at any level. pics go in this order: Norn legendary horse (kinda what it could look like); Human legendary horse (kinda what it could look like); Sylvari legendary horse (kinda what it could look like); charr legendary horse (kinda what it could look like); horse with guild armor hing (kinda what it could look like); and last but not least, i have one last thing that i think is a good idea. horses. could. be. mobile. banking. it would be an expensive thing (about 20 gold) to make 1 of your horsed a bank, and 20 gold for the next. it could be great for people that use their bank quite often. it could be great for storing extra items, even great for having some bags on the horse. thank you all for reading this, lets make this a reality.

I can see where your coming from and you’ve got some nice ideas but (as I’m sure your already expecting) there really is no need or really a place for mounts in the game. The areas really arent big enough to justify it and most classes already have some form of speed boost through skills or talents. Plus the use of way points makes the concept all but superfluous. If the areas where bigger and way points didnt exist I think it would be a good idea but as things are mounts really dont help the game in any way.

smezmer.1206:

I can see where your coming from and you’ve got some nice ideas but (as I’m sure your already expecting) there really is no need or really a place for mounts in the game. The areas really aren’t big enough to justify it and most classes already have some form of speed boost through skills or talents. Plus the use of way points makes the concept all but superfluous. If the areas where bigger and way points didn’t exist I think it would be a good idea but as things are mounts really don’t help the game in any way.

I see what you mean, but in WvW it would be cool and i think that, although they are unnecessary, it would be cool to have them put in to the game for a slight speed boost, plus in WvW you could add cool effects for dismounting people off their horses.

Next time, do you mind using the Search feature of the forums? We don’t need 1000+ topics about mounts.

And for my opinion, no. Not necessary, and take away from the immersion of being a part of the world and traveling. WvWvW is made for combat, not running around on mounts willy-nilly.

I have to agree that with the waypoints, the mounts are a bit redundant in the game. I read the strategy guide and in it, it mentioned that when you ‘first explore the area it’s meant to be difficult’ and that mounts would take away from that. Mounts are something that are so difficult to get right in a game and shoehorning them in isn’t a good start, I think the only games to have got it right were Legend of Zelda OoT and Shadow of the Colossus which had parts built around them.

Despite that, I’d love for there to be an open plain area added, just so you can mess around on mounts or something like that, as most often, I’m enjoying pelting a guild member with snowballs rather than adventuring out. Kind of like the costume brawl system but with mounts, maybe even with racing mini-games. Some people play games for the landscapes after all. I like your idea of having each races horse the same base animal, but custom to them, though I don’t think I’ve ever seen a horse in game?

Flying mounts is all I want!

Loved flying around in Vanguard, that was truly awesome!

I personally don’t have anything against mounts. Alot of people complain about Waypoint cost (which might be an issue, depending on your playstyle), and this would be a good solution. Not to mention the fact it will add new category of collectible items.
However I don’t see a need to post another thread here, since there are plenty of them already(which received alot of attention), and A-Net is certainly well aware of the suggestion. Now it’s only up to them whether or not mounts are implemented in the game.

I just think mounts would be a cool cosmetic choice, i made this thread because i had some of my own ideas that i wanted others to hear. i think it would be great to have this. maybe if you had 1 of each legendary mount you could make a legendary legendary mount lol. you gotta agree these would be sweet.

Haha, I can see it already. One big male charr with his big horns on this ‘small’ horse. Awesome. But really, mounts with 33 percent wont be very bad. Id agree with the suggestion. But on the other hand, I wouldnt mind neither if they dont add mounts.

Sqwyt.5731:

Haha, I can see it already. One big male charr with his big horns on this ‘small’ horse. Awesome. But really, mounts with 33 percent wont be very bad. Id agree with the suggestion. But on the other hand, I wouldnt mind neither if they dont add mounts.

i was thinking, maybe they should get on the horse like a motorcycle but it moves like a horse lol

every class has the option to have a swiftness buff either permanently or almost permanently. So mounts are not needed, plus on the fact that we have waypoints.

Next thing is you really should use the search function, as it is against the rules to create multiple threads saying the same thing. Also if you bought a mount, we will humor the idea of mounts being put in, it would cost you the same as using the way point system for 5 months. I have maybe spent 3 gold total on waypoints across all characters at most 5 gold.

Mounts are not needed use the search function

Kalastraer.8264:

all mounts would be ground AND horse based.

Okay, I get it, you like horses. But why does every kind of mount have to be a horse? And by the way, haven’t you noticed yet that GW2 doesn’t even have horses? Not even the NPCs are riding around on horses. Wouldn’t a dolyak, or something, make a little more sense?

Fyrebrand.4859:

Kalastraer.8264:

all mounts would be ground AND horse based.

Okay, I get it, you like horses. But why does every kind of mount have to be a horse? And by the way, haven’t you noticed yet that GW2 doesn’t even have horses? Not even the NPCs are riding around on horses. Wouldn’t a dolyak, or something, make a little more sense?

Excellent point… no one rides mounts, I mean no one in the game NPC, hero, Noticeable character rides mounts. So why would you as a player get to ride a mount? I know why no one rides a mount cause they all ride the epic hottness mount know as the Asura Way Gate Point system. Much faster and safer

Plus I am pretty sure i over heard a few skritt talking about if they ever saw someone riding a mount they would revolt and burn down the world. They can do it believe me they may be skritt they are hit but they can sure pack a skritt of a punch when needed.

another mount thread… keep trying tho, bound to get mounts if ppl keep making threads about them every week.

why do you need mounts, when we got charr? just ask one to piggyback you

If it’s a female trying to mount my Charr thats fine, she can ride me all day lol. But serious to the point of this topic…While I can see mounts are needed in alot of games which infact already have them, because of the waypoints and gates we have for travelling, you generally don’t have to walk far to get to where you are heading. I guess in some instances where it might be some distance from a waypoint a mount would be of use but apart from that there would be no reason to spend gold to get one if they were available. As for the Skritt, their not too bright and might burn themselves if they try to burn down the world hehe

i agree mounts would be cool and ease the need for running with your 33% skill.
i would however like to be able to fight with them – to some extent, just like you can enter a golem in asura race (nm that the golem is pretty useless).
even free mmo’s got mounts so if it’s just for the fun/cool factor i would still say, go for it!

Wall of text crits for 10k. I can’t comment on unreadable suggestions.

Punctuation, enter key, logic and systematic argumentation. Try to use it. Maybe I’d agree, probably I won’t.

In the world of Tyria there are no horses. In GW1 horses also did not exist ….

Just delete the most waypoints. Maybe 1-3 per map, not more (one for the dungeons etc). Mounts are cool and way better than waypoints…you don’t even see the world if you are teleporting…if you have to run with your mount you can see the world aorund you.

Saulius.8430:

why do you need mounts, when we got charr? just ask one to piggyback you

I’m not fussed whether they add mounts or not. It would be a nice cosmetic thing, nothing more.

But I would love to have the ability to give piggyback rides! That would be amazing. +1 for that idea.

I don’t mind having mounts or not, but i have to say i really don’t get Anets concept of WP over something like mounts. There are DE’s that pop up throughout the world (alot of areas are near dead so alot of the group DE’s can’t be done) they said they want their players to explore their beautiful game (when how is someone spending afew silver to skip about 4-5 areas of the game exploring the game more then someone who has to run to the area past all the DE’s and other things in the game you get from exploring)

I also see people saying “You can get near complete uptime of 33% speed boost from traits and skills”… So basically you have to trait and use spells that are just for speed if you don’t want to WP everywhere as it is over priced but not take forever getting there, now that seems alittle stupid to me. Sure you can swap the skills back out once you’re in a DE or a dungeon, but it shouldn’t be such a big deal that you rely on spells to get around especially as we only have 3 utlity spells to play around with.

Games like WoW where you can ride your mount endlessly without ever getting hit or anything is abit over the top though and so i would say if we ever had mounts in this game they would need to be alittle less then 33% (so that any speed spells are not near unless anymore, but also so it’s not over powered as mobs will still be able to hit you). Also only ground but that’s just common sense.

I think they could even add mounts into the game without any speed increase just for the cosmetic looks, something you’d have to farm for abit. We all know riding around on horseback looks alot cooler then running constantly on your feet for days. Even in the GW2 novels none of them used any sort of mount, instead they traveled on foot for days on end. That seems alittle unrealistic to me, if you was going on a long journey to a massive battle surely you’d take some sort of transport and save your energy, but hey that’s getting off topic.

It would make WvW much more interesting.. like a mounts showcase. ( I’ll target the peeps riding the rare mounts >=D )

I want piggyback jousting.

Please put ground mounts in the game. Flying mounts, maybe not, but ground mounts? Definitely.

Hi everyone,

You can find the mounts suggestion and many others here. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Game-Improvement-Suggestions/page/26#post1047591

Please feel free to add your feedback to the thread/suggestions found inside.

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