Guild Wars 2

An entire world with no mounts for player NOR NPC’s is just too unrealistic. Every civilization has used them and yet Tyria can’t figure out how to tame a few? How dumb are these inhabitants? I’m sure humans will have a chance against the centaurs if they had mounts. The tactical advantage is obvious and yet the humans don’t have a cavalry?

Suggestion: Release a Black Lion mount in a similar timing as the Black Lion Weapon Skins. Each new release will have 1 new mount. Cost: 1700 gems or equivalent.

Yeah! The Tyrians should go complain on their forum and see if Jenna is listening.

edited for spelling. stupid spelling

i wouldnt mind mounts but i didnt knew this game needed to be saved.

Soleil.1304:

An entire world with no mounts for player NOR NPC’s is just too unrealistic. Every civilization has used them and yet Tyria can’t figure out how to tame a few? How dumb are these inhabitants? I’m sure humans will have a chance against the centaurs if they had mounts. The tactical advantage is obvious and yet the humans don’t have a cavalry?

Suggestion: Release a Black Lion mount in a similar timing as the Black Lion Weapon Skins. Each new release will have 1 new mount. Cost: 1700 gems or equivalent.

NO, we have way-point’s and Asura Gates.

Soleil.1304:

An entire world with no mounts for player NOR NPC’s is just too unrealistic. Every civilization has used them and yet Tyria can’t figure out how to tame a few? How dumb are these inhabitants?

Dumb enough to have site-to-site teleports that require only a tiny piece of self-contained hardware at the receiving end. Yeah, every day I’m on the road I wish we were that dumb. Our mounts (cars) seem absolutely brilliant by comparison… Not.

You might want to start over completely on your ‘realism’ argument. It doesn’t go where you think it does .

Suggestion: Release a Black Lion mount in a similar timing as the Black Lion Weapon Skins. Each new release will have 1 new mount. Cost: 1700 gems or equivalent.

Suggestion: Runes are a thing. So are speed signets. And Traits. EVERY SINGLE PROFESSION can get a permanent speed buff, but must pay a price for one of the most sought out, most impactful benefits in the game. Decide what you’re willing to give up for it, but don’t expect it to be handed to you in a way that obsoletes all of those existing character options.

Soleil.1304:

An entire world with no mounts for player NOR NPC’s is just too unrealistic. Every civilization has used them and yet Tyria can’t figure out how to tame a few? How dumb are these inhabitants? I’m sure humans will have a chance against the centaurs if they had mounts. The tactical advantage is obvious and yet the humans don’t have a cavalry?

Suggestion: Release a Black Lion mount in a similar timing as the Black Lion Weapon Skins. Each new release will have 1 new mount. Cost: 1700 gems or equivalent.

mounts that aremaybe 5% slower that boosted running works, it wont ruin the current map traversal, and gives variately to models. Cant see any harm. If however mounts were >= than boosted running then it devalues a load of skills which is obviously fail.

so mount = slightly slower than boosted running, but interesting graphics v boosted running by magic for max speed. and dont have mounts in cities, we have all been there and thats a mess waiting to happen.

Soleil.1304:

An entire world with no mounts for player NOR NPC’s is just too unrealistic.

Should I mention that some mobs in HoT have mounts?

Theory debunked. Mounts exist.

In all serious though, this horse has been beaten into the ground so many times we should have held a funeral 50 times over by now. Mounts are not needed. Waypoints exist for FTM (faster than mount) travel. There are various methods of gaining speed boosts already in the game to help you get those waypoints unlocked.

Mounts do exist in the form of cosmetic toys. Magic carpet, broomstick. Not many, but a couple.

Now go eat some pie.

Just an fyi
Humans vs Centaurs. umm tactical advantage?
No transportation?

Dude we have helicopters

Why not just expand the gemstore’s “mounts” that doesn’t do anything? Broomstick, magic carpet, drill etc….

Soleil.1304:

Cost: 1700 gems or equivalent.

Why would anyone pay over $21 for a “mount” that would most likely be an inventory/bag item that you’d have to shuffle between characters?

Even if it gave a 66% speed boost (which would probably just result in zones feeling “small”)… I think I’d much rather just pay 1.4s to jump immediately to a waypoint.

Daddar.5971:

Go play ESO. They can serve your need to be mounted!

Complete with the high price tag the OP suggested!

I love ESO, and I enjoy getting and using a variety of different mounts in that game, but I completely agree that there is no need for them in GW2, either as a speed boost or as a cosmetic item, since we have a lot of other options. (And yes I am a bit bitter about their prices.)

I wouldn’t mind having a fast moving mount in some of the HOT maps where there are a serious lack waypoints…

However, I’d rather just have more waypoints in HOT.

Mounts are completely useless. Get 33% movement buff.

Mounts should be “challenging group content”. Each time before you can enter your
mount you must just kill a raid boss.

I’m not sure why people keep thinking the game needs mounts when there are waypoints every 2 feet.

I didn’t know mobs had mounts. Wow the alliance is dumber than the mobs.

Hunters have pets that are more than big enough to ride, yet never does… Just dumb, very very dumb. Every tribe in historical existence has used animals as mounts if they were able to tame big enough livestock.

We have helicopters and way-points but still can’t tame an animal to ride. Again, very illogical.

Movement speed is not the goal here. The goal is to do what civilized society usually does: use a means of transport other than just walking or running (which is quite primitive). Just provide 15% movement speed bonus that can be overridden by using speed buffs. In other words, let us use skills while riding (just like a knight on horseback can use their skills, just not their feet). A speed buff should affect the mount because a hunter’s buff already affects the pet, there’s nothing weird about it at all.

What I am saying is that GW2 seems like they are forcing the walk/run idea simply because they don’t want to be like “all the others.” The reality is that this makes no sense in a logical pursuit of a world that has intelligent creatures that are able to “think.”

By forcing the “walk” you dumb down the thinking capacity of the inhabitants. We have helicopters but no bicycles/motorcycles/scooters/cars/mounts/vehicles for land transport? Really? You think this makes sense?

Again, I just simply think mounts has a place in any intelligent society and GW2 is, I hope, intelligent. Also, if you look at the plummeting stock values for Anet and GW2, they do need saving. The 1700 gems will boost ANET income and allow them to hire more skilled engineers to make the game better. This is a win for all of us.

Mounts will just make you lazy and fat. Tyria needs capable heroes, not shambling, wheezing land whales.

Yeah, who wants to use instant teleportation systems for a small fee?

Mounts are not going to save this game.

They will be mounts in new expansion called GW2: Rise of Crystal Desert.

For only 49.99€ you get 1 new race and bunch of maps and we introduce land mounts that you can get by unlocking in gem store, price- only 3000 gems.

Buy now.

Liquicity.3621:

Just an fyi
Humans vs Centaurs. umm tactical advantage?
No transportation?

Dude we have helicopters

And tanks, air ships, submarines, heck the asura could orbital drop Golems in GW1.

On topic, there are mounts in the gem store, a riding broom, and magic carpet. Go fill your boots.

Also, my rev as perma swiftness.

Instead of mounts, give us the ability to use our gliders outside of Maguuma. I’m so used to hitting my space bar every time I jump it’s now pavlovian. There is no greater disappointment now then when I go back to core tyria and jump off a hill or bridge and hit my space bar and have…nothing…happen, other than me falling like a brick.

What will mounts save the game from, exactly? Un-crowded NPCs? I don’t really miss seeing a mammoth’s backside every time I need to sell mah goods.

Mounts are fun.

You can use way shrines in ESO but also use mounts. Why do people automatically argue that it’s either one or the other?

I bet gw2 would have such epic, beautiful mounts in these graphics ^^

I suspect there will be boat as weapon in DSD expansion. Mounts for ground movement is unlike unless ANet decide to allow PC sit on chairs.

we already have way points, wtf you need mounts for

besides they look so silly, and companies add all type of kittened mounts to squeeze money from players.

no no no. we don’t need mounts.

Doug Whisper.2465:

I suspect there will be boat as weapon in DSD expansion. Mounts for ground movement is unlike unless ANet decide to allow PC sit on chairs.

You mean… We can’t sit on chairs?
How did I miss this?!
Okay, where us the thread relating to sits, I am joining the pro chair campaign.

The maps are not big enough for mounts.

Just look at some of the Korean MMO’s, their maps are massive with several cities on the same seamless map.

GW2 maps are tiny by comparison, the whole of GW2 is broken up into tiny area’s.

1700 gems per mount.

When used, it logs you out and uninstalls your game.

I would be cool with that.

You already have your mount.

It’s that dead horse you’re beating.

Daharahj.1325:

we already have way points, wtf you need mounts for

besides they look so silly, and companies add all type of kittened mounts to squeeze money from players.

no no no. we don’t need mounts.

+1

You can play plenty of games out there that meet your mount needs.

This game cannot be saved, it’s being destroyed. “Special” suggestions like this will only further destroy it.

The world’s nowhere near big enough to warrant mounts.

Mounts have become more and more appealing to me since they’ve really begun skimping on the number of WPs in a given map. Newer maps have way less WPs than original ones did for some odd reason.

These argues had been made 3 years ago when the game came out and the reaction of ANET was “There won’t be any mounts.” Still they are behind that decision.
When I first played this game I was kinda disappointed non-existance of mounts or personal houses but I don’t care about it now ^^. Since we have battleships and choppers ^^ and gliders.
And mentionin gliders yea please ANET, we should glide in Tyria too. You know, there is air and high mountains to glide in there too xD

*imagines a community manager telling colin about this thread and he starts laughing*

Ragnarox.9601:

They will be mounts in new expansion called GW2: Rise of Crystal Desert.

For only 49.99€ you get 1 new race and bunch of maps and we introduce land mounts that you can get by unlocking in gem store, price- only 3000 gems.

Buy now.

Needs more exclamation points!!!!!

Seriously, though, can we please stop with the mount topics? So tired of these.

Lumpy.8760:

imagines a community manager telling colin about this thread and he starts laughing

I think he used to laugh. Now, he just rolls his eyes and maybe shakes his head a little.

I’m for mounts, but they would need to also provide a free (or near-free) one, ingame, to make sure things remained balanced.

I think 1700 gems would be a bit much, though.

I think 1000-1500 gems would be nearer the mark (depending on how elaborate the particular mount was).

Rio.4259:

What will mounts save the game from, exactly? Un-crowded NPCs? I don’t really miss seeing a mammoth’s backside every time I need to sell mah goods.

They wouldn’t have to introduce massive ones.

They could just be big cat-sized, or horse-sized, at most.

I guess they would have to make slightly larger ones for Charr and Norns, but only proportionately so.

They could also exclude them from certain areas – like the areas around trading posts and banks etc..

No real need to ride them into the bank, after all.

Kreejaffa.3682:

Soleil.1304:

An entire world with no mounts for player NOR NPC’s is just too unrealistic.

Should I mention that some mobs in HoT have mounts?

Theory debunked. Mounts exist.

In all serious though, this horse has been beaten into the ground so many times we should have held a funeral 50 times over by now. Mounts are not needed. Waypoints exist for FTM (faster than mount) travel. There are various methods of gaining speed boosts already in the game to help you get those waypoints unlocked.

Mounts do exist in the form of cosmetic toys. Magic carpet, broomstick. Not many, but a couple.

Now go eat some pie.

Hmmm…

“not needed”.

Always find that argument strange, in games.

Like most people are only concerned about need.

Not fun, or interest, or added depth; just “need”.

I’m not even that desperately into mounts, personally (always more of a pet person); but I also know how unlike most gamers that makes me.

Most people (or most men) are mount-obsessed.

Just like most men are car obsessed, IRL.

If you were a games dev, you would likely ignore that fact and talk only about “need”, at your peril.

Mounts won’t save this game. A complete 180 redirection from PvE development towards sPvP and WvW development will save this game.

Not this again

Cosmetic mounts would be fun. Just another cosmetic skin, like gliders. No need for a speed boost. We already have a broom and a carpet, why not a Magneto floating pose or an asuran tech disk?

nica.5829:

Mounts are fun.

You can use way shrines in ESO but also use mounts. Why do people automatically argue that it’s either one or the other?

I bet gw2 would have such epic, beautiful mounts in these graphics ^^

Because in ESO traveling by wayshine gets very expensive since you have to wait for the CD of the price to drop, hence why mounts makes sense

Something new and beneficial is progress.

Teleportation does not have to be taken out. They are two modes of transport and neither one can replace the other. They can be mutually exclusive so stop comparing the two.

Soleil.1304:

I just tried to rationalize a world without mounts again. Nope, still convinced that intelligent beings would have mounts.

I know.

It’s just ridiculous.

Like you would, if waypoints existed IRL, say “Well, I could ride around in a car, but of course I have that set of waypoints that take me not very close to where I want to go, at all, at a relatively high cost (if you add it all up, over time).”.

No, of course you wouldn’t – you’d use your car, or a combination of the two, depending on exactly where you were going and how much of a hurry you were in.

Much like, IRL, where you have public transportation, that does much the same thing, of taking you somewhere, but not necessarily very near where you want to go (albeit, not almost instantly).

Most people still use their own cars, most of the time and probably would do so even more, if they could carry them with them on public transport and use them at the other end, to finish their journey.

In fact, most governments can’t get us out of our cars, at all, despite trying for years.

Soleil.1304:

Something new and beneficial is progress.

And what’s beneficial about mounts? So far you haven’t offered anything substantial beyond lore reasons, which I won’t say you’re wrong about, but that doesn’t make it beneficial.

Yes it does. You just don’t see it yet.

Soleil.1304:

Yes it does. You just don’t see it yet.

You’re not even trying anymore, are you?

Soleil.1304:

Something new and beneficial is progress.

Teleportation does not have to be taken out. They are two modes of transport and neither one can replace the other. They can be mutually exclusive so stop comparing the two.

its not new or beneficial, its an old old idea thrashed to death in other games, although i dont object if its just a skin with no speed boost. However, in saying that it is very likely some people will be more enclined to ‘ride’ past mobs and events rather than stopping to join in or help others and that kind of anti-rpg element we dont want.

next it will be ‘flying mounts so people have more time making exciting choices’ or so the chant goes in those mmorpg with dead virtual worlds.

vesica tempestas.1563:

Soleil.1304:

Something new and beneficial is progress.

Teleportation does not have to be taken out. They are two modes of transport and neither one can replace the other. They can be mutually exclusive so stop comparing the two.

However, in saying that it is very likely some people will be more enclined to ‘ride’ past mobs and events rather than stopping to join in or help others and that kind of anti-rpg element we dont want.

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We already “walk” past mobs. I don’t follow your logic.

i will ignore the ad hominem and qoute yourself:

’I just hate it when developers keep bringing back old stuff. If you like to repeat history and keep doing what you’ve been doing, you should go back to WoW. They’ll give you lots of the “same thing.”

Mounts that give speed boosts are old hat, they introduce lazy ‘ride past content’ behaviour, unless as i said at best they dont offer a speed boost’