Guild Wars 2

I can’t find any suggestions for this, so honestly I’m a bit surprised no one’s thought of it before. I probably just missed it.

But one thing I would absolutely love to see added to GW2 is mounted combat. Technically it’s already a feature in the game, seeing as players can ‘mount’ siege weaponry, but there’s something alluring about riding around place to place on horseback and cutting a path though any enemies foolish enough to get in my way.

One could base the combat mechanics on the centaurs somewhat, since they’re ‘perma-mounted’. There could be a whole new set of skills and such useable by being mounted, and perhaps even attacks used by the mount itself- such as a horse kicking enemies behind you, or a Dolyak ramming enemies in front of you.

Another thing it would help with is exploration. It would speed up travel, without missing out on the beautiful scenery like one does if they constantly use waypoints. Even if combat were not implemented, mounted travel would be both fast and fun.

Guild Wars 2 is an awesome game, and mounts are just one more way to crank the awesome to the max.

I support this as soon as

a) we get WvW maps three times the size of the current ones
b) waypoints are removed
c) mounts in WvW can be killed and they cost supply/gold to replace

Koneko.8420:

I can’t find any suggestions for this, so honestly I’m a bit surprised no one’s thought of it before. I probably just missed it.

Lol, except that there have been more than 40 threads with the title “Mounts”.

You obviously didn’t look for it then.

And the general conclusion was usually: no thank you.

No.

Lol, except that there have been more than 40 threads with the title “Mounts”.

You obviously didn’t look for it then.

Well, to be fair, the search function has been broken for weeks now. It doesn’t seem to pull up posts any older than 12 hours.

Go to your search bar and change ‘mounting up’ to ‘Mounts-X’ with X an element of the set {1, 2, … , 44} and you’ll be redirected to yet another thread about mounts.

ArenaNet has already said they will not be adding mounts to Guild Wars 2 (before Guild Wars 2 was even released). That’s why they added waypoints.

Bron.9647:

ArenaNet has already said they will not be adding mounts to Guild Wars 2 (before Guild Wars 2 was even released). That’s why they added waypoints.

That doesn’t mean they won’t consider adding mounts at some point, even if it is in the form of a mini game. There could be a jousting tournament for example, with players riding Dolyaks within a corded off section.

When ever people hear the word mounts, they immediately scream at the top of their lungs “But we have waypoints!”. And that is just a huge misconception. The purpose that mounts serve in other MMO’s, need not apply here. It’s all in the execution.

Bright.9160:

Go to your search bar and change ‘mounting up’ to ‘Mounts-X’ with X an element of the set {1, 2, … , 44} and you’ll be redirected to yet another thread about mounts.

It refuses to even search for me. Putting in the word mounts does absolutely nothing. It does the search thing then doesn’t give any results, even on the forum page this thread is on. So, my guess is its broken.

The search is broken. It’s basically a box you can type things in to see what might, if anything, comes out. It is the forum equivalent of a crude salvage kit. The best way to get results is to use Google and type “guild wars 2 forum (what you are looking for here)”.

That being said, I do not want mounts in GW2.

I’m not against mounts for aesthetic reasons, I’m against combat mounts, it’s going to ruin gw2 combat by a lot and it’s going to take tons of efforts.

No.

Astral Projections.7320:

Bright.9160:

Go to your search bar and change ‘mounting up’ to ‘Mounts-X’ with X an element of the set {1, 2, … , 44} and you’ll be redirected to yet another thread about mounts.

It refuses to even search for me. Putting in the word mounts does absolutely nothing. It does the search thing then doesn’t give any results, even on the forum page this thread is on. So, my guess is its broken.

By search bar, I actually meant the bar on the top of your screen where the site name is.

For example:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Mounts-34

is a random thread about mounts. Change ‘34’ by any number between 1 and 44 and you’ll find a thread about mounts.

No.

Bron.9647:

ArenaNet has already said they will not be adding mounts to Guild Wars 2 (before Guild Wars 2 was even released). That’s why they added waypoints.

and thats why there are mounts ingame already called riding brom(its a mount tho only for looks)
the ide of mounted combat is ok if implemented right tho there is a hell of a lot i would rather see then mounted combat.

i would love mounts in towns cloth

Bright.9160:

Lol, except that there have been more than 4000 threads with the title “Mounts”.

And the general conclusion was usually: no thank you.

fixed

Bright.9160:

Go to your search bar and change ‘mounting up’ to ‘Mounts-X’ with X an element of the set {1, 2, … , 44} and you’ll be redirected to yet another thread about mounts.

In all fairness the forum search function is pretty bad.

There’s this new Korean game called “Black Desert” featured on Kotaku…. it’s supposed to have mounted combat. I suppose it’s awesome, but mechanically not suitable with our current game since we already have waypoints.

That said, it’s a possible idea for a mini-game for living story just like the hunger game, aspect arena, and gauntlet.

I would totally support bigger WvW maps that allow mounted combats

Bright.9160:

Go to your search bar and change ‘mounting up’ to ‘Mounts-X’ with X an element of the set {1, 2, … , 44} and you’ll be redirected to yet another thread about mounts.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fforum-en.guildwars2.com+mounts

I’ll forgive you since the forum search function has been broken for a while now, but seriously enough with the mount threads this crap is getting old.

GW2 needs Mounts. Period

Surely not now, but give GW2 more time, let Anet handle first some of the far more important thigns with higher priorities first and then in say the next 1 to 2 years, once we come into the reach of the first real Add On, then implement Mounts with fitting features, that suit to GW2 and its to that point then advanced game world

Orpheal.8263:

GW2 needs Mounts. Period

No, it doesn’t. Full stop.

That’s just your biased opinion. Full stop :P

Orpheal.8263:

That’s just your biased opinion. Full stop :P

No, you wanting mounts is not the same as the game needing mounts. If GW2 needed mounts, they would’ve been there from the very beginning.

Everyone’s opinion is biased, otherwise we’d call them facts.

Koneko.8420:

but there’s something alluring about riding around place to place on horseback and cutting a path though any enemies foolish enough to get in my way.

While I can understand the appeal here, it is more suited for a single player game. Otherwise, it just turns all combat into mounted combat and then we lose the ability to cut swaths through the enemy, anyway. A-net would need to revamp the combat system to make unmounted combat have it’s own advantages while mounted combat has it’s own. Unmounted, having a system like shields and pikes in formation to compete with mounted combatants.

I’m fully supportive of mounts in GW2. I don’t even care if there is mounted combat. Vanity mounts that you could ride around Tyria would be awesome, plus you’d save a lot of gold on waypoints.

Anet could give us all a starter Doylak for free and then charge gems for collectible vanity mounts. I’d get out my wallet.

Yeah, to be honest.
Mounts would be great, Gw2 would earn alot, but what would it do with the gameplay?
I would say that it wouldnt change anything at all, this isnt any sow phased MMO like WoW which is basecly stand still and cast or move around weirdly and cast….
Mounts would be more annoying since it will lead to people just keep running faster in WvW, but that wouldnt do that much tbh
Mounted is prob a def. no, since you wont have dodge, which is worth alot more than speed in this game.
I do agree on cool looking mounts, for running around etc, but the limit hits when it come to pvp.
And waypoints isnt a legit excuse for not having mounts…..idc what ppl say

uknortherner.2670:

Orpheal.8263:

That’s just your biased opinion. Full stop :P

No, you wanting mounts is not the same as the game needing mounts. If GW2 needed mounts, they would’ve been there from the very beginning.

The same counts for all of you stubborn No-sayers…

You not wanting mounts is not the same as the game not needing mounts.

If GW2 would have had Mounts from the begin on TOGETHER with the Way Point System as both systems are basically 100% optional travel systems as you can use them, but you don’t need to use any of them at all to get anywhere in the game..
If that would have been the case from begin on, nobody would complain about their existance at all I’m 100% sure, because everybody would just simply use that of both option,s what everybody personally likes the most and both systems would simply coexist with each other without disturbing each other.

Its only the biased people from games like WoW, Aion and Co. from games with terrible implemented mount systems, which made bad experiences in those kinds of games, where the game developers gave a kitten about, if that feature destroys the game balance, as long as it makes fun for many players and keeps them playing the game for as longas possible..

So many people are way too much biased against mounts, cause of their bad experiences from crap games like WoW, Aion & Co which truly totally ruined the feature for making just only pure profit out of it with their players, because alot of people are just fearing only, if Anet could ever bring Mounts, that their system could just end up like the so feared mount systems from those other stupid games.

I can naturally understand, that people don’t want that ANet should repeat specific mistakes from other games. I don’t want that too.
But I am at least open minded enough for any kind of new feature that has potential for becoming something real great, to give Anet at least the CHANCE to proof, that they are able to do better, than any other MMO before them.

Think of Orr, use one of those many Charr Tanks there, maybe together with an other player so that 1 drives, the other shoots each having their own “mount” skill bar in that time.. driving as like shooting skills for each in regard of who takes which role in that mobile charr tank that could be mounted by multiple players in orr.

You just have to be only creative and give ANet a chance at showing, that they can make a Mount System that is far superior than everything we have ever see within the last like 10 years of MMO history !! Mounts must not only be ridable creatures only.

And I think this is also the high standard that Anet has set up by themself when they talked about mounts whenever they got asked about them in interviews.
They have never said yet an official no about mounts, that they will never come, as also no clear yes. They have said always only, that IF they would ever bring Mounts to GW2, then they want them to be something truly special, that fits to GW2 and its gameplay mechanics.

However, I personally don’t need combat mounts. I personally would be just already extremely happy, if we would just get mounts just only for TRAVEL PURPOSES that simply work as an alternative system for waypoints so that everybody that simply pukes over this stupid lazy kitten waypoint system has a nice alternative for a little faster travel without being forced to run always to everywhere on feet or to use skills and traits just only to move a bit faster, which are a total waste of potential, if you could use these trait slots/skils for something way more important.

Anet can easily decide where Mounts can be used and block them off everywhere, where they shouldn’t be usable, like towns for example.

Something like this with a few mount skins to be receivable normally and the extra vagant ones can be put then into the gem shop for sale so that anet can make some profit too, but with mounts, that aren’t neccessary for anything to be competitive, just a feature for convenience/prestige for those that don’t like legendary weapons and rather spent their money for their own personal permanent summonable mount to travel faster and be a bit more independant from that kittened waypoint system that gets basically forced upon everybody, if you just want to be quickly somewhere to let not others wait too long..

Therefore the system is perfect, but please finally accept, thta there are also people, which want to travel a bit faster and that with style and prestige.
Mounts are perfect exactly for that.

Waypoint Travel has neither no style, nor is it prestigeous, its just plain CHEAP!!

They can’t even make tall or beastly characters fit into houses or look good in armor. You think you’re gonna like the look of a charr on a mount? It will be horribly awkward unless they let the camera zoom out a bit and find some way so that every character has something to ride that doesn’t make them look silly.

That said, I support mounts. Why not? It adds immersion. Mounts are cool. I don’t really understand how they will break the game if they are added. Even with combat only mounts, they could be restricted to an area like the Argent Tournament did in WoW. The possibilities are endless. Silly people, afraid of change.

To my knowledge, the official response is no mounts.

Orpheal.8263:

GW2 needs Mounts. Period

Surely not now, but give GW2 more time, let Anet handle first some of the far more important thigns with higher priorities first and then in say the next 1 to 2 years, once we come into the reach of the first real Add On, then implement Mounts with fitting features, that suit to GW2 and its to that point then advanced game world

GW2 does not need mounts. Period.

Sawnic.6795:

To my knowledge, the official response is no mounts.

Yeah it has been for about a year now.

Orpheal.8263:

Its only the biased people from games like WoW, Aion and Co. from games with terrible implemented mount systems, which made bad experiences in those kinds of games, where the game developers gave a kitten about, if that feature destroys the game balance, as long as it makes fun for many players and keeps them playing the game for as longas possible..

So many people are way too much biased against mounts, cause of their bad experiences from crap games like WoW, Aion & Co which truly totally ruined the feature for making just only pure profit out of it with their players, because alot of people are just fearing only, if Anet could ever bring Mounts, that their system could just end up like the so feared mount systems from those other stupid games.

I can naturally understand, that people don’t want that ANet should repeat specific mistakes from other games. I don’t want that too.
But I am at least open minded enough for any kind of new feature that has potential for becoming something real great, to give Anet at least the CHANCE to proof, that they are able to do better, than any other MMO before them.

Waypoint Travel has neither no style, nor is it prestigeous, its just plain CHEAP!!

Ive never had an issue with mounts in other games but they simply arn’t needed here. Bar mesmer every class has at least one decent speed buff for shorter distances and the waypoint system for long ones . Weather or not the waypoint system has style is irrelevant to the conversation as its still a means of getting from point A to point B faster. Besides are you REALLY going to ride a mount from Queensdale to Timberline Falls if you had the choice of waypointing there instead? Of course not .

Of course YES, I would, because it would be ALOT MORE FUN to do that, than to run all the way on feet or to use the stupid waypoint system for watching a dumb loading screen always for a few seconds and missing out all the things I could have met, like events, new people, loot ect. i could hve made on the way to my destination point as also enjoying to travel through the maps.

Someone who doesn’t RP and is too lazy to do something like that can’t understand this. For you as I guess it. Non RP’er it is naturally totally nonrelevant if waypoints are cheap or not, as they fulfill simply your personal needs of traveling as fast as possible – in this way.. instanteous to where you want to be. So they have their purpose for you to be there.
To me, this system feels forced upon me, because these is no alternative to get somewhere quicker if I want to.
The waypoint system is an immersion breaker, unless you use Asura Gates which are fine and no problem.

Speed Buffs are cheap boring excuses for not having mounts and they functionate not for every class the same and as you say, Mesmers don’t even have a permanenet one, like all other classes.

When you really never had any problems with mounts in other games, whats then the problem here?
Do you really want to tell me, that only cause of the existance of that stupid waypoint system, that it is denied to have alternatives that fit more to the tastes for others, when its clearly something, that wouldn’t harm the game at all??.

If yes, then I find this truly selfish.

We talk here still about a fully 100% OPTIONAL alternative travel system mainly (specific other wishes like mounted combat for now aside), that gets forced not onto anybody to use, because when it simply comes down to effectiveness, Mounts will be never better than the Waypoint System in a matter of time savings.
They will alway be worse and thus be used only really for the matter of having fun with them our for prestige to show off, as like people get legendary weapons just for prestige to shoff off with them …

However, I feel it makes no sense at all to try to “discuss” here anything about mounts at all in any kind of constructive way, because we fall back always again to the typical permanent stubborn no-sayer argues that have no weight and are only full of biases and fears or just pure assumptions like this

Besides are you REALLY going to ride a mount from Queensdale to Timberline Falls if you had the choice of waypointing there instead? Of course not .

You can go ahead. I’m out of here. Trying to discuss here mounts feels only like talking against brick walls.

This behaviour is like,if you suggest someone to use with a fork together a new “knife” and you get then as answer only back:

I don’t need a knife, I can use the thin side of my fork to cut things … what surely works too in many cases..but not everywhere everytime and using the knive is just more convenient…

I hope people get that metaphor …

no mounts pls… except maybe in wvw i want to shoot with my sylvary ranger from a back of an oakheart