Guild Wars 2

It starts in about 30 minutes. It will likely be over well before the stress test begins.

My question on mounts right now is how we will control them. I mean keybind wise. In the preview weekend with raptors there were hotkeys settable both for toggling the mount on and off and for summoning the raptor in particular, but no other mounts had a summon key. Perhaps due to no other mounts existing in the preview.

My keyboard real estate is almost completely filled since I loathe having to hit key combos in timed situations. I’d like to start figuring out how to smoothly transition from mount to mount

I recommend a Naga, or other multi thumb button mouse to increase real estate.

That said I assumed mounts would work similar to gliders or ranger pets. You have your mount, which you have to swap out to use a different one.

There’s supposed to be (coming) a drop-down menu on the ‘Summon-Dismiss’ key. At least according to the preview demo videos.

Yes, it does not work like gliders, because — unlike gliders — each mount has different functionalities. You will have to switch between them often and quickly, and that’s what the additional skill button will be there for.

I don’t think we have enough information to say we’ll need to swap quickly between them. I feel like each will have specific uses, but we’ll have time to swap them when we need them.

They showed it in the stream, there is a choice to click on the UI summon, also you can set a hotkey for each if you wish. I think you have to actively dismount one before summoning another rather than getting force-dismounted by choosing another.

The stream was full of solid answers both from a user and a programmer viewpoint.

Kal Spiro.9745:

I don’t think we have enough information to say we’ll need to swap quickly between them. I feel like each will have specific uses, but we’ll have time to swap them when we need them.

You really want to go into the Hero Panel each time you need to switch between mounts? That would be a very bad solution for a user-friendly approach.

We know the skill button to swap mounts is there, we all saw it, and it’s a great, fast solution. Why would you want to complicate things?