Guild Wars 2

I know this has been suggested before but i urge you to read this and tell me I am wrong…

Mounts ARE MISSING from GW2.
They are not purposely excluded for any good reason.
Some points for exclusion I have seen across the web include:
Walking -taking in the scenery
There are way-points
Mounts would Ruin the experience

Waypoints are great and I understand that this is the current solution to mounts, but here is why they are not a good Replacement and would be a better alternative (Why limit the possibilities).

Intelligent humanoides have always found faster ways to travel. Horseback, Cars, Motorbikes, Trains, Airplanes, Rockets.

Why would only one of five intelligent races have developed a way to travel the world faster. This is damaging the “Fantasy reality” of the game for me. This would not be the case. ( I am currently watching planet of the apes… even the monkeys are riding horseback.)

Mounts in my opinion would encourage exploration, I often find myself thinking… I really cant be bothered to run the the top of the map. Especially on a large race such as a Norn or Charr as they feel particularly slow.
It would also help lower level players conserve money if they wish to not spend it on traveling using Azura Gates…

Any comments are welcome to back my argument…
Any comments against mine are also welcome

Cheers!

I do not understand the anti mount argument…A faster way to travel that doesn’t ruin the immersion of the game the way waypoints do? I am all for it. You can’t come up with any cons for it other than.

1. A system is already in place and I’d rather the developers not use time beating a dead horse—the only good one.
2. It destroys immersion-which in that case you should hate waypoints also.

In my opinion they could coexist and I’d only use waypoints for getting to other maps completely and use my mount for anything within that map.

they already have one mount and more likely to come but dont expect them to change your travel speed

Not this kitten again. Mounts suck, get over it or go play some other game. They suck in all games i dont care what argument you bring to the table.

No.. Please stop. I’ll stick to the way points.

Every profession has a way to incease speed. Use that
Signet: ranger, thief, Necromancer
Staff: guardian, elementalist
Warhorn: warrior, ranger
Utility/elite skill: guardian, ranger, warrior
Focus: mesmer
Trait: thief, engineer
Shortbow: thief skill 6

I’m not really for or against mounts but I’ll say keep them the kitten out of WvW and PvP. I think they would be cool for PvE but that’s it.

AbysallSmoke.2078:

Intelligent humanoides have always found faster ways to travel. Horseback, Cars, Motorbikes, Trains, Airplanes, Rockets.

You are absolutely correct.

The part you’re missing is….they’ve already figured out an even faster way to travel than anything you’ve listed above……teleporting.

Asura Gates and Waypoints are a much faster method of travel, hence making horses, cars, motorbikes, trains, airplanes and rockets obsolete….which is why we don’t have them in the game.

I don’t like the idea of having mounts in GW2, reason being: we have waypoints.

I don’t have a problem with mounts necessarily, but we honestly don’t need them if we already have a faster system to travel across maps.

Get ready for the flame wars.

I support mounts purely from a cosmetic standpoint. They don’t need to be faster than walking normally. Yes the waypoint system works brillianty, but I would like to see my Norn ride a Dolyak through the Shiverpeaks! Or my Charr on something steampowered.

Could easily be added in the same sense as cultural armor: expensive stuff or in the store.

As long as they’re not tied to your townclothes.

Mounts should work just like the broom

I always wanted to ride a dolyak on top of the LA bank

Mounts should be limited to how fast the player can run/sprint. Any faster and mounts can bypass any mob.

Also no large mounts. Only smaller non living mechanical/magic/steampunk mounts.