Guild Wars 2

I get that one of the things that makes Guild Wars 2 unique is how you don’t need mounts in theory, because you have waypoints, but I have a couple scenarios where having a mount would be very helpful.

1. Storyline: If your personal story takes you to a place far away that you’ve never been to, it’s going to take quite a while to run there on foot because you don’t have any waypoints there. This is where a mount would come in handy.

2. Farming: Leveling is decently fast-paced, so you move on to higher level areas faster than you can level your professions. So if you need to farm materials for these things, you can’t just waypoint to a node. Mounts would also come in handy in this situation.

Now, I’m not talking about flying mounts, because the world might not be ready for that, and from no mounts to flying mounts is a huge step. I’m just suggesting maybe ground mounts that you can purchase with silver and gold.

Maybe have fast mounts for low levels, that costs a certain amount of silver, and faster mounts for higher levels, that costs a certain amount of gold.

You can always tie unique mounts to achievements, or vendors for certain amounts of karma, or even diamonds, so people can buy special mounts. I don’t see how adding mounts would conflict with anything in this game.

Just an idea.

Thanks :D

Suggestion: Use the “search” function.

Mounts are uneeded. You can get around this game quickly anywhere, including Orr if you actually pay attention to pathing.

Also, use search…this suggestion gets posted by the same 10 people every week.

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1. Storyline: If your personal story takes you to a place far away that you’ve never been to, it’s going to take quite a while to run there on foot because you don’t have any waypoints there. This is where a mount would come in handy.

The idea is to explore the whole world. If you do that, you will find the personal story follows that path rather nicely.

2. Farming: Leveling is decently fast-paced, so you move on to higher level areas faster than you can level your professions. So if you need to farm materials for these things, you can’t just waypoint to a node. Mounts would also come in handy in this situation.

If you farm as you complete maps, you’ll find yourself having a good number of crafting materials. Also, most classes have speed increasing abilities / utilities. I’ve never found myself feeling ‘slow’ when roaming around the world

I have searched and I saw people making good arguments for mounts. I’m a little new here, I’m just giving my point of view. I get that they’re unneeded, but what harm can they do?

“Oh, quit trying to make Guild Wars into an MMO clone”? I’m sorry, I was unaware that in medieval times everyone just walked everywhere. What are horses?

Tyria isn’t a middle ages version of Earth. Try again.

It’s clearly based off of it. Hence Humans.