Guild Wars 2

Has anyone come across more detailed information on mounts? I’m exited about the expansion, but having been in the “mounts will destroy the game” camp I am really curious about how they will be implemented, what the limitations are. I’d rather not have LA be a sea of Jackalopes or have to clamber around a boss fight to see beyond a bunch of raptors. Crowding around a vendor as it is breaks the immersion, imagine how it will be with everyone on mounts. When they introduced gliding they did it in a way where it didn’t overtake the game, I hope they took the same care with mounts.

That being said, mount or no mount I will be heading into the Crystal Desert.

P.S. I doubt mounts will be allowed in LA (or any racial city), but the visual image was too much to pass up.

After rewatching the mount video it looks as if you get an initial attack from your mount, then it disappears. That looks promising.

Mounts are a mastery, I suspect it will be one Mastery line for each. But that means that, visuals aside, they work a lot like gliding does. And should be able to be turned off in areas, just like gliding’s “No Fly” areas.

Wooden Potatoes just said mounts will be in core Tyria.

Ayrilana.1396:

Wooden Potatoes just said mounts will be in core Tyria.

Yay! I need the Jackal, because… big puppy!

I wonder if the mounts will have some type of stamina pool? With gliding, even with the advanced gliding mastery, you eventually come back down.

This is so upsetting I hope we are given an option to turn off everyone’s mount. That away the people that don’t like mounts don’t have their immersion ruined and everyone else can have their mounts and also be happy.

It would be more immersion ruining by turning mounts off, than by accepting them to be a part of the gameworld after expansion launch.

Arenanet added them to the gameworld, thus they are part of the game world.