Guild Wars 2

You Mount Fanatics…… I’m getting a headache.

EEEEEEEE! Not only mounts but we get to play polo???? I need some stadium mustard for my bratwurst!

http://www.amazon.com/Free2mys-Cotton-Sleeve-Casual-X-Small/dp/B00Y2FULYE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433552758&sr=8-1&keywords=polot-shirt

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Riesty.9075:

http://www.amazon.com/Free2mys-Cotton-Sleeve-Casual-X-Small/dp/B00Y2FULYE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433552758&sr=8-1&keywords=polot-shirt

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They’ve already released? Fantastic! I’ll show my support to ArenaNet by purchasing a few. Thanks for the update, Riesty!
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(On a serious note though, I think some apparel would be pretty cool. Nothing too flashy though <3.)

sounds legit

/15

My god… It’s all clear now!

Imagine having mounts, you could customize, put gear on etc. That is a huge time sink, if they indeed one day add them, they will see just how much time people will put down on their mounts.

It’s falconlover all over again…. sad face, pece.

Undo.5091:

Riesty.9075:

http://www.amazon.com/Free2mys-Cotton-Sleeve-Casual-X-Small/dp/B00Y2FULYE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433552758&sr=8-1&keywords=polot-shirt

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They’ve already released? Fantastic! I’ll show my support to ArenaNet by purchasing a few. Thanks for the update, Riesty!
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(On a serious note though, I think some apparel would be pretty cool. Nothing too flashy though <3.)

sorry about that but i believe if we get something like mounts
the perfect place is a rly large sandy crystal desert with only a view waypoints and probably with a masterie
so get over it

for HoT if Anet is maybe trolling some where you get some riding inded
how? for example
place an asura some where (you can name him after me if ya whant xd)
experienceing with mind control and dinosaur
to supporrt him you can pay x amount of gold (similar to that useless quaggan payment just for fun)
and he allow you a dino ride in a cyrcle
ohh and don t forget the 5AP+the dinosaur rider title

I fell for the clickbait title, sigh.

One day they’ll give us vanity mounts beyond the carpet, drill and broomstick

Now the minority who actually want mounts are trying to turn the thread.

narwhalsbend.7059:

Now the minority who actually want mounts are trying to turn the thread.

From what I have seen in the past, across reddit, the forums and most importantly in-game, the split between those for and against mounts is actuall weighted for mounts, especially where newer players are concerned. People just don’t tend to populate the forums a great deal, so we can never gauge what the “true” majority want, as most of the regular forum users have a very specific opinion that they just happen to be rather loud about expressing.

Vocal minorities very rarely represent the majority.

I myself don’t care either way in the end, to me in most games mounts are more for vanity than practicality anyway.

Lol, you made my day. I read the whole thing, then I watched the picture of Roy Cronacher and had to laugh ^^

While I know this is supposed to be a “ha ha” thread…. it’s obvious that I have not yet had enough coffee this Monday morning…

…to the Kitchen!

I guess arena.net wanted to be edgy with the no mount idea. Well they could have thought of something different. How about a mount that has a stamina of its own? It would, I dont know, run out of it after a short period of time (like 5 – 10 mins of gallop) then it would go back to normal running speed. I have no idea why they did waypoints. It breaks immersion. And they were bullkittenting when it comes to exploration/helping other people. We both know you are just gonna click on your map and swoosh, you’re there. Lets not forget WvW. It would certainly increase the pace.
Im not saying the game is in dire need of it. Its pretty solid as it is. But its an MMO. If you can build portals and giant war machines, you could get a saddle and put it on a horse . It would be a very cool addition and people would appreciate it.

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There’s a good possibility of a thread that won’t pan out exactly how you’d want.

Another mount post…

Aaaand… yup! Here we are…
~takes a drink~

I have no time to go through (what seems to be) countless mount posts. Its my first post on this forum. Barely got to lvl 80. Its merely a suggestion/opinion from a random dude.
If your wish for me to cancel this thread, I have no problem with it.

Why cancel the thread? There’s always someone who will come and agree. Personally I’d like mounts but I also know they aren’t really needed.

Markuc.8321:

I have no time to go through (what seems to be) countless mount posts. Its my first post on this forum. Barely got to lvl 80. Its merely a suggestion/opinion from a random dude.
If your wish for me to cancel this thread, I have no problem with it.

Please.

Here is the one mount thread you can read to get what people are going to say Mounts [merged].

No time to read but yet time to make a post.
3 years without needing a mount.. can’t say I’m missing them, fun as it would be to get round the map on a tame Karka.

LoLz

Stick with the broom, the tunneler and the carpet.

Yea, Waypoints breaks immersion…? O_o But the usuall Pocket horses that all other MMO’s have dont?

When you have played the living story a little bit you will find that Waypoints is a big part of the story and are in no way immersion breaking.

I dunno but I have yet to se a horse in game. In a world wihtout horses or with a very few horses is a world where not many uses horses as a mount. Now Dolyaks has been used as mounts but they are not that good to ride in too battle with. It has been done but it was more something dwarves did. In GW2 there has been a few undead or demon horses but still not many of them.

Now stuff to mount on the other hand are a few in the game already. We have:
- Golems and other warmachines.
- Magic carpet.
- Molten tunnel drill.
- A witches broom.

I think mount is a great idea for this game simply for aesthetics reasons. For example the mount should only increase your speed by 33%, making it equivalent to perma swiftness and can only be mounted out of combat. I don’t see how it will break the game.

Of course it’ll be another source of revenue for Anet too and considering how other games implement paid mounts (WoW, ESO, etc), I think it’s a decent money.

I haven’t read the merged thread but I’m pretty sure someone has mentioned an idea similar to mine.

How about -No they are not needed

We do not need a 33% speed buff for aesthetics, especially not on a PAID mount = P2W

We had an uproar cuase the watchwork mining pick produced sprockets. People left and the forums were littered with dozens of threads about unfair and all…

Now, do not go and make a mount, which perma boosts speed and some ppl do not have access to,..

Also: mounts except for the Jununduy and the Siege Devourer are foreign to GW(2) and they were not mounts but combat mechanics. The scorps in EotM are actually Siege devourers. Babies, but siege devourers nevertheless… and that’s the closest I hope to come to mounts in the game.

Mounts purely for cosmetic purposes = These are ok. We have a small selection of these already (magic carpet & broomstick) and I would like to see more of these cosmetic only mounts.

Mounts that give a speed boost = Unnecessary and unwanted by many (myself included). I also find them highly unimaginative.

Mounts that allow you to reach out if the way places, but offer no other benefit in general play = These are ok. And we are going to get one of these in the glider.

I have said this before and I’ll say it again. I want mounts to be more than a simple, boring, done to death speed buff item. I want them to be like gliders. More creative, more interesting, without giving you any combat or speed advantage over others who are not using a mount.

I had an idea of how mounts could be implemented, for those who love them, without hurting the total aesthetics of the game and I made a thread about it.

My idea was to add mobs that you can tame and mount but only as a part of the Mastery system and not purely for peruses of moving faster but as a specific map mechanic. Using these mobs could give you specific skills, if you Master them, to help you move around or complete events in a specific map that supposedly will have way less waypoints. Skills like leaps, immobilize traps, invulnerability, reflect projectiles, swiftness, jump etc. Not purely combat skills but things to help you overcome obstacles and reach special places. You could even have a skill to carry supplies with them or shield the supplies depot or I don’t know you can go wild depending on what the map needs!

You can see more on the thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Idea-for-a-Mastery-Riding/page/2#post5129942

@ Rin:

just that a speed boost of something, that you easily can get permanently already with signets, traits or runes is no go darn kittening advantage!!

It is what it is. THE SAME and absolutely no P2W like some people here are still until today too stubborn to grasp that. Paying money for an effect, that is the same than what you can get already in the game for free is no P2W. It is P2W, if you would receive an effect, thats way better than what you can somehow get for free in the game.

If mounts would give you for example a permanent +100% speed boost, that would be god darn kittening P2W where you would pay real money to receive a clear advantage over others!!!, because you would be then able to move always 3-4 times as fast than anyone else with the options they can use for free.
But if Mounts give you only maximum 25-33%, just like perma movement speed signets/swiftness

Don’t forget, that the mount effect also would count only, while you ride it.
If you dismount, you have still to rely yourself onto the known methods to move faster.

Mount would be nothign else, that a vanity item for character customization (skins) that allows you to have a bit more quality of life not to have to change permanently between your Travel Build and your Combat Build anymore.

For me as a thief as example does this simply mean, I don’t have to change permanently out my signets for when I want to travel around quicker and for when I want to fight, unless I want that extra side effect of the travel signet for a more defensive build and for more secure not interruptable stomps.

We already have basically Mounts that can be used for combat, like Siege Golems, all what ANet needs to do with that mechanic now is it only to make it possible that the game can show your character also, while using the mount. Thats the only thing that is missing.
The carpet shows, that anet makes improvements on that already.

Sure would people still use waypoints, when mounts woudl be the, but thats no kittening argument against them. Its just a matter of taste in the end still, if you like to use them, or if you prefer the lazy and faster way that you know since game release and you want to be somewhere instantly in the game, cause you don’t want to waste time or you need to be somewhere quickly.
Thats all fine and good.

But there is absolutely nothing wrogn with having MORE OPTIONS ever, cause no freaking butt will ever force you in this game to use mounts ever, if you don’t like them and anet has more then enough options to guarantee you all mount haters, that you will never see anywhere mounts in the game, where they don’t belong to and if thats even still not enough, then theres stil lthe option of making Mounts under the graphic section a cullion option, so that when people use mounts and you have that option on, that the game will show you that chasracter, as if he would not use a mount at all.

Heck, theres even that option in the graphic section, that makes all of your enemies in PvP look like humans for you.. that technology could be simply used also to make all mounted players look for you still like normal unmounted players. (at least in PvE)

In PvP would be mounts anyway no topic at all ,they dont belong there.
The only area open up for discussion about mounted combat yes or no is still WvW and with the new desert wvw nmap and upcoming new maps that most likely will follow we can see already, that the newr maps are alot larger, that the current alpine map, which gets removed and hopefully will return someday as a reworked and much bigger map also too.
WvW where mounted combat would be a possible thing that makes sense (i.E siege golems ect.) thats the only place, where such a mount culling option couldn#t work, because it would be weird if you would get attacked by some mounted combat skilsl and all what you see in front of you is then a normal dismounted player that swings its weapon at you…

Ground mounts that offer no more speed boost than 33% from swiftness would be fine, wouldn’t really change the game much aside from people that want mounts can have them. Although I would limit jumping capability, the idea of doing a jumping puzzle on a mount just seems wrong.

What made mounts cool in other games, once upon a time, was that you had to actually travel to places in an open world. Getting around wasn’t just porting from place to place. I realize most people hated the long travel times, I think it adds to immersion, but whatever. Once that concept is lost mounts become trivial.

Ashen.2907:

People who bought this game perhaps in part because there were no mounts should not be affected in the manner you describe.

That argument holds absolutely no water when it comes to GW2. We have enough design reversals in the last three years that the idea of staying true to some idea of why people chose to buy the game is meaningless.

People who bought the game in part because of easily reached BiS gear plateau were thrown under the bus for Ascended gear.

People who were sold on dungeons with story and three explorable modes were left in the desert when ArenaNet quietly stopped developing dungeons.

People excited about ArenaNet’s hype around min-games now run past the tavern brawl, shooting gallery, and portal to the polymock arena no longer even noticing they are there.

The Extended Experience got dropped in favor of crowdsourcing development through the API, guild missions seem to have been abandoned, possibly Fractals as well.

You have to remember that ArenaNet loves their “iterating”. Anything you have your heart set on can be abandoned or torn down and rebuilt in a completely different way.

“Nothing is off the table.”

I would say YES to mounts… as long as you can’t store them, and they can actually die/be destroyed. I would love to form a Guild focused on Mount Killing.

Nope. Everytime. To tired to bother reposting any of the arguments against here. Give this thread a day or two and it will die off again till somone makes the next mount thread. And then the same people will come in saying Yes or No. Like it happens every single time

Dante.1763:

Nope. Everytime. To tired to bother reposting any of the arguments against here. Give this thread a day or two and it will die off again till somone makes the next mount thread. And then the same people will come in saying Yes or No. Like it happens every single time

Isn’t it beautiful to have something to rely on?

Gibson.4036:

Dante.1763:

Nope. Everytime. To tired to bother reposting any of the arguments against here. Give this thread a day or two and it will die off again till somone makes the next mount thread. And then the same people will come in saying Yes or No. Like it happens every single time

Isn’t it beautiful to have something to rely on?

Like death, taxes, and mounts threads?

Endless Soul.5178:

Gibson.4036:

Dante.1763:

Nope. Everytime. To tired to bother reposting any of the arguments against here. Give this thread a day or two and it will die off again till somone makes the next mount thread. And then the same people will come in saying Yes or No. Like it happens every single time

Isn’t it beautiful to have something to rely on?

Like death, taxes, and mounts threads?

Exactly. Not to mention “When will HoT be released?” and"There’s nothing to do!" threads as well as “WoW is that way” responses.

Wuselknusel.4082:

IrishPotato.6327:

Tachenon.5270:

Most people would rather ride than walk. Don’t believe me? Leave your car/bike/horse/lear jet in the garage/driveway/barn/hangar for a week. Walk everywhere. To work, to the bank, to the grocery store, to the movies. Pretend all the waypoints are contested. Try to convince your friends, family, and co-workers to do the same. Heck, let’s reduce the time to just one day. Ready? Go!

If we had mounts, we would ride.

Let me ask you this. When was the last time you walked all the way to Citadel of Flame from LA. When’s the last time you walked into a queue’d pvp match in spvp. When’s the last time you walked into silverwastes once you unlocked the waypoint there. Oh wait…There’s that fancy word that ANET made mounts irrelevant. Waypoints.

And that’s why the game is dull.

That isn’t why the game is dull but nice try.

Endless Soul.5178:

Gibson.4036:

Dante.1763:

Nope. Everytime. To tired to bother reposting any of the arguments against here. Give this thread a day or two and it will die off again till somone makes the next mount thread. And then the same people will come in saying Yes or No. Like it happens every single time

Isn’t it beautiful to have something to rely on?

Like death, taxes, and mounts threads?

And Offtopic Posters, that have nothing to say at all and rather should be quiet, if they have nothing to say constructive as contribution

Orpheal.8263:

Endless Soul.5178:

Gibson.4036:

Dante.1763:

Nope. Everytime. To tired to bother reposting any of the arguments against here. Give this thread a day or two and it will die off again till somone makes the next mount thread. And then the same people will come in saying Yes or No. Like it happens every single time

Isn’t it beautiful to have something to rely on?

Like death, taxes, and mounts threads?

And Offtopic Posters, that have nothing to say at all and rather should be quiet, if they have nothing to say constructive as contribution

This is a public forum. Deal with it.

I consider mounts to be very off topic and irrelevant to this game.

UK, theres a difference in between offtopic Posts and clearly trying to derail the thread, thats what these guys above tried to do with their non to the topic contributing stuff.

Your argument is nonsense. Yes, it is a public forum, but also a public foum has RULES and one of it is not to derail threads – Code of Conduct:

• Stay on topic and create a new post for tangentially related topics.
• Do not submit “trolling” posts or threads. We define “trolling” as commenting in a manner intended to elicit overly strong negative and emotional responses for mere shock value, attempting to derail threads, persistently posting off-topic, or engaging in personal attacks on another forum member. Accounts made with the sole intent to “troll” will be terminated.

enough said.!

mounts are missing from this game. the game is incomplete without mounts. the game has serious movement problems without them. portals are not enough. running is not enough. a lack of high speed ground movement and of course flight, is a massive black hole in this game. I seriously hope the fan boys aren’t keeping down the future advancement and fix this game is in sore need of – mounts!

Gibson.4036:

Ashen.2907:

People who bought this game perhaps in part because there were no mounts should not be affected in the manner you describe.

That argument holds absolutely no water when it comes to GW2. We have enough design reversals in the last three years that the idea of staying true to some idea of why people chose to buy the game is meaningless.

Not really. If someone other than Anet is making the suggestion then yes their request should be considered against the interests of those who bought the game for (in part) its lack of mounts. If Anet, the owner of the game, decides to change something we have to suck it up or vote with our wallets.

If someone wanting mounts can make a convincing case that adding them would produce greater profit than would be lost due to alienating other customers then I would expect mounts to be added.

Mounts

Don’t discount the power of mounts.
I surmount that most want mounts.
On a mount we can bounce.
On a mount we can pounce.
And as these replies do amount.
We should consider mounts to add to our accounts.

So please Anet announce the mounts.

At the moment, you need to build for a speed buff. Whether it is through runes, traits or a utility skill or two, you need to sacrifice something on your build to get that permanent speed buff. If you introduce mounts with a speed buff, even one as small as 25%, you take that sacrifice element away, which I believe is intentional. So, no, I do not agree with any kind of speed buff on a mount.

Mounts should work like the witch broom if they are added. Not increasing speed at all, just a cosmetic addition. They would just need to bind a button to a new slot for the mount and allow the broom and drill to be considered in the same category.

You don’t need mounts when there is a waypoint at every corner.

I would love mounts. I would love t even more of you could use ranged weapons from you mount. Or melee.
I would really just like to see massive WvW cavalry battles where everyone charges on their mount and tries to run the other down…
On the other hand, I could see how they could be not so great…