Guild Wars 2

You may think I’m exaggerating when I make this next statement but: the quality of life boon of being able to gather uninterrupted whilst mounted CANNOT be overstated.

In World of Warcraft, as a varying example, as a druid you COULD gather all materials while in flight form, but as any other class you could not do so while mounted. I can tell you from experience, the difference it made to be able to just run around gathering what I wanted without having to stop and start, and without having to press and channel my mount ability every single time I gathered. It made immeasurable difference to me as a gatherer whilst clearly not imploding the game economy, because if it had they wouldn’t have allowed it.

So please, ArenaNet, I’m begging you: allow us to gather while mounted.

Please play them first and see how they feel before asking stuff like this.
In world of Warcraft,as a varying example, mount have CAST TIME.
If you see any of the available footage about mounts in GW2 you will see that the mounting and dismounting animations look so smooth so I think gathering will not be a problem. If you watch any of that footage you will be able to see that you can start moving before the mounting animation is complete even. Wait for the preview weekend and test it, if you still believe it is a problem, then come to the forums again and post it. Mounts in GW2 are NOT your generic mounts, stop treating them like they are just copy pasted.

So lazy.

/15 char

Mounts look like transforms similar to gliding. I see no issues so far with dismounting, gathering, and mounting, again.

I think the ability to gather mounted should be limited to Druids in flight form. Oh wait!

I agree that we should try this before judging. However, unless this is a much smoother experience than the description indicates, I anticipate that this will be among the top complaints we will see being posted about this coming weekend.

Have you been on a mount yet? No, so stop moaning about something we haven’t got yet.

It takes a half second to dismount and mount. No need for this at all.

Not seeing an issue with being dismounted. On top of that if you are not I could see how this could make it harder for others to gather the same resource node if people remain mounted and can’t see the node buried by a mount.

Yet another “WoW does it so we should do it here” thread…

Do we know if mounts will move faster than swiftness allows a character to move?

• If not, and if mounting and dismounting is that big a deal to you, use a perma-swiftness build.
• If so, well… games cater way too much to players’ constant demands for more convenience. Players demanded mounts, now let them deal with the tiny consequences, if there even are any.

The OP may think that he is not overstating. However, this request falls so far beyond the realm of first world problems that it is in its own category.

I don’t mind having to dismount, so long as we can mount while on the run. If they make us stop, mount, and then start moving again then I will find any forced unmounting intolerable.

Ohoni.6057:

I don’t mind having to dismount, so long as we can mount while on the run. If they make us stop, mount, and then start moving again then I will find any forced unmounting intolerable.

Agree.

I heard a rumour that there’s going to be a fifth mount called the Harvester, specifically for harvesting. You’ll only be able to harvest in POF by riding this mount.

IndigoSundown.5419:

Do we know if mounts will move faster than swiftness allows a character to move?

• If not, and if mounting and dismounting is that big a deal to you, use a perma-swiftness build.
• If so, well… games cater way too much to players’ constant demands for more convenience. Players demanded mounts, now let them deal with the tiny consequences, if there even are any.

The OP may think that he is not overstating. However, this request falls so far beyond the realm of first world problems that it is in its own category.

I was watching a Wooden Potato stream today while he was examining AuroraPeachys demo, she had swiftness on but it didnt seem to affect mount speed at all.

Just watched a WP video that addressed this very question. To gather: Bring Mount near, press ‘F’, you automatically dismount and begin to gather; once the gathering animation has ended, you can remain dismounted, or press the mount key to mount your Mount, again.

(at about 13:00 in)

Good luck.

First anet gives in and adds mounts, not the mounts aren’t good enough because one has to dismount. Never satisfied. so sad