Guild Wars 2

Riku.4821:

As they said above.
Personally I’d prefer an April fools announcement that gliding is unlocked for everyone now. But it isn’t so a bunch of people try and fall to their death. That would be great.

Then they will come to the forum and complain about it on multiple threads that will need to be merged together.

There’s a reason why ANet didn’t have April Fools this year and probably will never have it again.

Edit to comment: this post was merged into the mounts thread from another thread.

They really should not cater to complainers. Anet used to do things in game that were fun and exciting. Anyone from the BWE’s knows what I’m talking about. Even the GW1 beta’s were hilarious. I would love to see more of that in the game. I vaguely remember one april fools they promoted a combat soldier profession. Of course it was a joke, but still was funny.

Hexinx.1872:

They really should not cater to complainers. Anet used to do things in game that were fun and exciting. Anyone from the BWE’s knows what I’m talking about. Even the GW1 beta’s were hilarious. I would love to see more of that in the game. I vaguely remember one april fools they promoted a combat soldier profession. Of course it was a joke, but still was funny.

The year before they raised such a stink that ANet was forced to go to those forums and publicly apologize for having a plane animation where people decided that was insensitive to victims of a hijacked plane crash a week or 2 before on the other side of the world from ANet. After being forced into a public apology they probably decided it wasn’t worth it since it could happen again and again.

Edit to comment: this post was merged into the mounts thread from another thread.

This world we live in, I tell you… you can’t do a thing without offending someone or some group. Games are games, and meant to be fun. I guess those people on the other side of the world must hate when the aviator box comes out too. Just ridiculous. If I had to go through an ordeal or traumatizing event, it’s not a games fault for having quirky little things in it.

I guess if they released those crazy chickens in wayfarer foothill from beta, we might offend some animal rights protection group as well.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Riku.4821:

As they said above.
Personally I’d prefer an April fools announcement that gliding is unlocked for everyone now. But it isn’t so a bunch of people try and fall to their death. That would be great.

Then they will come to the forum and complain about it on multiple threads that will need to be merged together.

There’s a reason why ANet didn’t have April Fools this year and probably will never have it again.

People always got to ruin my fun. x)
To continue it then, shut down the forums for April Fools too. But knowing people, they’d still complain, that not only on April Fools they were tricked, but the forums were down too.
Just can’t please anyone it seems. -shrugs-

how about we mount a guy on a glider who is doing the airplane arms

can we get more travel items instead?

I want mounts if only for more cosplay/cosmetic options. Doesn’t even need any boosts. Just more toys like carpet and such. Though it would be nice to still be able to use weapon and utility skills so I still have all my movement abilities.

For those talking about the “unrelenting desire” or “crowds demanding” mounts. Go through the thread, and start counting the “yay” vs “nay” set.

It’s the same handful desperately asking for mounts.

It’s a plethora of others saying “We don’t want them.”

Rather like the dueling threads. There was one thread about dueling, made it to 14 pages before the one, single pro-dueling advocate realized it was literally him against hundreds of others saying no.

His response was still “The majority is wrong.”

There are many games where mounts are a thing. There are many, many fanbases where mounts are the be-all and end-all.

In short, there are other games for those who “need” something that isn’t going to happen.

Mounts in the form of horses etc do not fit the game.
Hover boards and,small techy mounts like that maybe.

What the game definitely needs is out of combat movement skills.
Something like the skills you use for the various race adventures,or the skills you use during the LS,not as powerful,but you get the idea.
Like we switch between weapons,there would be a button that switches the action bar to movement skills,only usable when out of combat.
Those could be unlocked and trained like the combat skills,or maybe be item related,so
you equip a item and you get a set of skills.
There is a need for that,and many times I find myself not using the combat build I want because I have to compensate for the absence of such skills.

Oh,I almost forgot…

I’ve brought it up a few times in-game when this topic (re)rears it’s head. In map chat, there’s usually 2 For, for every 10 Against mounts.

Well I am sure people who are for mounts won’t stop asking Anet to add them I for one just to shut those people up just go ahead and add them.

Using the standard speed boost available in the game is fast enough for a mount when using the boost permanently or adding additional 5% to 10% of speed which horses dose run slightly faster than a human.

For a horse runs no faster than 30 mph if not bred for racing and a healthy human 20 mph when sprinting. When ya think about it theirs not much of a boost if you add additional 10% maximum for the mounts.

Yes the mount may run little faster but still take a bit to get to were ya need to go if ya ignore the Waypoints. So yes Waypoints will still be used.

My idea for mounts will be similar for the armor for the characters. First off you choose your animal some will be limited by your race, then you can choose your color of the animal and patterns then you got your mount but if you want to change the animal or its fur color or pattern ya just have to do the cosmetic change.

Now for the fun part the saddles and armor you put on your beast. Their will be many styles of the saddle and armor also you can custom color them like the armor that your characters wear.

Now the big mistake that a lot of mmos get is were ya get huge amount of mounts With my idea you won’t need that many mounts which I am gussing to have no more than 2 per character which is reasonable even for players that have a lot of Characters in their account.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with more mounts that are essentially Ascenders or toys in different forms. Just like you ride the Broom, some of those forms could be other things you ride like horses or motorcycles. And for new gliders you could have airborn “mounts”. I don’t see why not.

Its unclear whether the ascenders / toys work with speed boosts. I think they should work with constant boosts like runes or buffs, not weapon skills. But I don’t think they should offer any movement benefit inherently.

they could introduce mouns that work like the ascenders meaning ooc you are in mount mode and on combat mount goes away and reapears after but also have increased speed like 40% 50%. You could even have those in wvw and it wouldnt break anything. And you can also go back to the existing ascenders and give them the mov speed much like how they went to the raven wings (black white ones) and gave them a glider (but never on the aetherblade backpiece ;-; )

~sigh~ So much for 11 months of peace in this thread.

Endless Soul.5178:

~sigh~ So much for 11 months of peace in this thread.

^^

Hey! Mounts! That’s a great idea. I’ve love a mount. It’s not all about speed. Some of us want them to flesh out our characters.

And after all, some Mordrem have mounts and Asura ride in Golems.

Always wanted to see the Skritt Burglar as a mount (without the bags of course). Now my main is a large Charr, so oh what fun it would be to see the complaining Skritt with me on top of it, controlled by a handy collar and lines. Baggies hung from it, or even a saddle optional – in fact, ArenaNET can charge for saddles.

It would be nice to have mounts for 2 people, like the ones of Revelation Online, I love them. Running with ur horse and ur friend through the map!

actually, considering that newer maps tend to have much fewer waypoints, end-game mounts could be a thing…

though I prefer if it was implemented in a different way..

like having to care for a juvenile stage, till it grows at several morphs. Once you reach ‘adult morph’ you could ride the mount for X many steps (1-2 minutes of travel), before it goes into a cooldown.

you then need to keep feeding it after use to restore ‘stamina’ or whatever…

Pet Wars 2 can totally be a thing

As I have said many times before, I am okay with mounts as long as they serve a purpose and make sense in their implementation.
Adding mounts to the current world would serve NO purpose and makes little to zero sense
Some examples where they might be good would be the wurms of the Desolation, or maybe a local mount in a dragon-minion infested zone where we couldn’t find stable footing to place waypoints. (e.g. the second part of the Rings of Fire, the Far Shiverpeaks, The Brand, etc)

people would probably throw a fit about how its “abusing the animal” like they did with the fish.

i like my fish pretty much thank you ^^

Amaimon.7823:

As I have said many times before, I am okay with mounts as long as they serve a purpose and make sense in their implementation.
Adding mounts to the current world would serve NO purpose and makes little to zero sense
Some examples where they might be good would be the wurms of the Desolation, or maybe a local mount in a dragon-minion infested zone where we couldn’t find stable footing to place waypoints. (e.g. the second part of the Rings of Fire, the Far Shiverpeaks, The Brand, etc)

Doing this inevitably leads to mounts everywhere; flying in some places leads to flying everywhere. See also every other MMO that made the change, and also gliding in central tyria.

Regardless of opinions on the value of mounts, fact is, “only in limited places” isn’t going to stick, so it’s either everywhere, or nowhere.

If you guys really don’t care about the movement speed then just make it so when you are using one of these mounts, you always move at the base unbuffed speed. On top of that, if you get on a mount, you are disallowed from using waypoints for 30 minutes unless you pay 1g+ the normal WP fee.

Gold sync incoming and you get to quote “build your char”. Job done.

I don’t want mounts everywhere in Tyria. It’s something I don’t think this franchise needs to plaster its cities with.
HOWEVER:
I would like to see some vehicles added to one of the expansions, specifically tailored to work on the new maps and nowhere else.
For example if we go to Elona, Kralkatorrik may have corrupted the Junundu and we have to traverse the non-rock parts of the map with vehicles able to fight the corrupted worms. With a giant air-fortress as a new Guild Hall option.
If we ever get to fight the underwater dragon we could get submarines or powered diving suits.

Asura war-golem-suits, charr tanks, human clockwork-walker, norn spirit-effigy-constructs and sylvari giant oakhearts. You start out with your racial “vehicle” and unlock the others via masteries. Primary skills relate to your profession and the mounted weapons while utility-skills depend on mounted vehicle-equipment.

You might get mounts…
Some ppl have specuslated we would go into the desert… Close to or into The Sulfurous Wastes… whcih are highly toxic

In that part of the desert there used to be Junundu wurms.,.. If they still exist you will have mounts even if they only are able to live in the (sulfurous) sand…

You cannot take ’m with you though, and the war to travel with junundu, is being eaten, and being regurgitated on arrival… so from then on we will all be little pukes….

link: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Junundu

Regarding the rest of the idea’s of mounts, well they make me a bit nauseus…

Just showing my support in adding mounts to the game!

So, it seems to happen every 6 months

Nice to know.

Ardid.7203:

So, it seems to happen every 6 months

Nice to know.

Yes, I remember that post. and it’s still quite true.

only mounts avaliable should be the actual transmogriffers and the golems…

When people use the vehicle transmogriffer thats Taimi saized… instead of building a usable vehicle like golems are… there are 2 magical keys to solve that visual clutter…. alt+f4.

You dont really care about visual clutter when it doesnt effect you in pvp wvw instanced pve. So yeh even if they existed in wvw when you enter combat or use skills they dismount so all that visual cluter goes away. Same can be said for gliders but mounts dont take half your screen.

stale.9785:

For those talking about the “unrelenting desire” or “crowds demanding” mounts. Go through the thread, and start counting the “yay” vs “nay” set.

It’s the same handful desperately asking for mounts.

It’s a plethora of others saying “We don’t want them.”

Rather like the dueling threads. There was one thread about dueling, made it to 14 pages before the one, single pro-dueling advocate realized it was literally him against hundreds of others saying no.

His response was still “The majority is wrong.”

There are many games where mounts are a thing. There are many, many fanbases where mounts are the be-all and end-all.

In short, there are other games for those who “need” something that isn’t going to happen.

This is pure confirmation bias, since most likely 80% of the people who play the game will never post on the official forums even once.

I have a guild of about 250 people now, and there are some people strongly against mounts. About 5 of them. I don’t know anyone who is pro mount at all, except for me.

However, the other 225 of the people are not anti or pro mount. If they’re introduced they’ll play with them.

Most people don’t think deeply about their gaming experience. I’m absolutely positive that the antimount crowd is much smaller than most people who are antimount think. It’s a very loud voice. But it’s like raids.

Most people that know MMOs don’t believe that raiders are any kind of majority in an MMO, but they have a very very loud voice.

I wish this game had mounts, even if they didnt give a speed boost or any effect but just to look awesome, just make it so we could ride moas or boars and stuff just for looks a.k.a cosmetic item

Here you go: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mounts-merged

Good luck.

I don’t need more things for my characters to clip through.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Travel

They kind of already exist

We already have some mounts (without speed boost effect), but these are mostly toys, not actual mounts (some of us would like to ride animals, or vehicles). And the only way to obtain one is by gemstore.

So I just want to ask Anet for more travel toys, and more ways of getting them (examples: random drop, karma/map currency merchants, achievement rewards). Remember that “Chak drone” adventure in TD? I would love to see that vehicle as reward for gold in that adventure!

Yes please! Mounts please!
My feet are tired.

I don’t like the idea of mounts for gw2, sorry.

I think anet will get back to you when they can add in capes.

You’ll have to do with toys like the magic carpet or the broom. Take a mini as well and you’re “good to go”

..no thanks. Looking cool is achieved in a way of how a character itself looks. I’m not talking about making it a giant cluster kek by carrying as much as legendaries and aura’s as you can. But rather having an original setup where each part compliments the other in both armor, weapons, dyes and possible a fitting backitem.

yeah mounts would be cool

If they don’t add mounts in the next expansion they are never going to add mounts. Just wait and see.

Hi Anet!

We need flying mounts, and ground mounts in the new expansion.
In HoT learned the glider mastery, it way cool, but if u already explored all maps, after much confortable if have a flying mount, what can learn example with the new expansion mastery.
It will be good some new weapons too, example 2h axe…
Maybe a new race…

Oh and yes, ground mounts+50% movement speed, and flying mount + 70% movement speed
If will be do this, gw2 will beat every mmos in the world….

Hexinx.1872:

They really should not cater to complainers. Anet used to do things in game that were fun and exciting. Anyone from the BWE’s knows what I’m talking about. Even the GW1 beta’s were hilarious. I would love to see more of that in the game. I vaguely remember one april fools they promoted a combat soldier profession. Of course it was a joke, but still was funny.

this , developers should design the game not the players

You should move this to the GW2 general discussion forum; this is about the web API for the game.

Here you go: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mounts-merged

Good luck.

im more than fine with them adding ground mounts but flying mounts will kill the immersion just like they did in wow.