Guild Wars 2

During the post-show of the PoF announcement, a streamer walked into a gambling place that read “No Raptors Allowed” in new-Krytan at the entrance. I was kinda disappointed, when she walked in there on her raptor without being dismounted. Which brings me to the main point:

No-Mount Zones. While I don’t dislike mounts, in fact I’m positively hyped for mounts in the new zones, I still believe there are areas where mounts would destroy the aesthetic of the place, clutter the area with their size and noise and even hide important NPCs from view. Since mounts are coming to central Tyria, what are the areas where you think mounts will be useful and what areas you want mounts to be banned from?

I think mounts will be amazing for world-exploration. Especially in the dreaded shiver-peaks getting around will be so much easier with the rabbit mount. Some of the Ascalon areas are already big (and flat) enough to warrant traveling by raptor.

On the other hand I don’t want to see a single mount in one of the cities. Both the major ones and the small outpost-like cities you can find in some starter-zones.

BunjiKugashira.9754:

On the other hand I don’t want to see a single mount in one of the cities. Both the major ones and the small outpost-like cities you can find in some starter-zones.

I will be fine with this. I don’t mind mounts in open fields, but i don’t want to see a main city conquered by giant bunnies. Expecially not in the areas where the bank and trading post are.

Agree with this, mounts are cool, but they shouldn’t be allowed in cities.

Agreed. Locking them out of major cities should be easy enough. Locking them out of the smaller cities may take a lot more work, going through each map and marking the areas where they’re not allowed because of smaller towns or caves, but I hope they’re working on it.

Palador.2170:

Agreed. Locking them out of major cities should be easy enough. Locking them out of the smaller cities may take a lot more work, going through each map and marking the areas where they’re not allowed because of smaller towns or caves, but I hope they’re working on it.

I’m not sure that it would be that difficult, because most JP’s are no-fly zones for gliding. Why would it be any more difficult to dismantle areas for mounts?

It’s conventional in MMO’s with mounts to restrict their use in certain areas (e.g. indoors, in caves, etc.). I’m mixed on cities and perhaps I’m polluted by fond remembrances of riding through Orgrimmar and Stormwind.

WoodenPotatoes said that he asked a dev about the sign and the dev said that it doesn’t apply to players because they are heroes or something.

Definitely should not be allowed in major cities, or at least where the services (bank, TP, crafting, etc) are, and in the special lounges. Cannot even see anything in these places if they are just full of mounts.

I’m 100% sure that if I have to fight with visual noise of mounts jumping across my screen when I’m at an outpost or some other nonsense I will simply go play other games and fully stop playing gw2. Its been my biggest reason for not wanting them in the first place and from what I saw of those demo play through vids, Anet doesn’t care about that kind of visual noise. They really need to make outposts mount free.

I absolutely agree that I don’t want to see mounts in cities. I love that mounts are in the game, completely fine with that, but don’t want them cluttering up the cities.

To the poster above who talked about riding through Orgrimmar and Stormwind, I get it. However, what I do not miss about that game is the giant mammoths and dragons covering up the NPCs, mailboxes, etc. If people can grief with game mechanics, they will.

I just ran an AB meta and was reminded of the the super funny ‘put a merchant in the center of the big chests so players have to click on the chest to open it’ trick. The eye-roll and annoyance I felt at that is how I feel about giant mounts in the cities.

Yeah, I can’t count the times some joker has dropped a BLMerch in front of the bank in DR making it impossible to reach. But if you think mounts will be bad for visual noise it’s the new holosmiths who will be firing of their rainbow of epilepsy inducing light shows that I think will finally send me over the edge. We shouldn’t be allowed to activate weapon skill in main towns either, its not like there is anyone to fight. Or make it so the guards fine you automatically if you do.

I’m fine with mounts being available anywhere in the open world, outposts included. I would prefer no mounts in the major cities however. For one there is already enough clustering around banks and trading posts. Second, it will be nice to have some areas where you can see other player characters as they are. Because if it’s like other mmos, once mounts are in, people will be surgically fused to their mounts like mutant experiments gone wrong.

Agree fully with no mount zones / no mounts in cities, as this is my biggest concern with them, screen clutter. I think deff all cities should be no mount zones, and I’d agree that villages/towns/outposts in PvE maps should be no mount zones too. Personally I’d actually have a small no mount zone radius around any merchant/bank/tp/crafting station etc too.

I can imagine if there aren’t any no mount zones it’s going to just be a stack of giant brightly dyed mounts wherever you look, and it’ll be worse when anet inevitably add ott mount skins to the gemstone, we’ll end up with hundreds of luminous mounts with glowing wings everywhere no doubt.