Guild Wars 2

Why are there no mounts?
Will there ever be mounts?
I like mounts. :-P

Mounts are something I’d like to see in this game. Waypoints gets expensive and other than that, you’re forced to use x weapons to have a swiftness buffs, or an utility

1. The original Guild Wars never had mounts, And I believe they aren’t included because they want you to be more involved in the zone, and not just speeding by it.

2. I think it was mentioned somewhere that mounts weren’t going to be included.

Sorry bro, But it’s just part of the game to not have them.

Please no.
Mounts are useless in this game as a means of transportation and only make the world empty as no one is going to dismount to help you.

Because Arenanet said so.
Arenanet has also said no to this.
I do not like mounts.

Efaicia.3672:

Because Arenanet said so.
Arenanet has also said no to this.
I do not like mounts.

Agreed, this is WOW guys.

This is my first GW game and I like it this way (no mounts). I’ve played plenty of others that did have them and feel that the above poster is correct in saying that you stay more involved in the world if you have to walk it.

dont need em
the waypoints arent that expensive

travel is easy

I’d like mounts for the novelty value, as long as they worked the same way as the speed buffs – allowing you to move slightly faster, not skip/“fly” straight to designated points on the map.

But I’m fine with the current system. The waypoints are there if you need them but the charge makes sure they’re not over used and even in areas you’ve been over before there are often things worth stopping for, even if it’s just a resource node or a downed player.

Also speaking as someone who has only gotten to play for about 40 hours, reached level 13 and hasn’t even earned 1 gold yet I think the waypoints are pretty cheap. It’s something like 70c to go from Divinities Reach to Ebon Hawk, which is most of the way across the map. When you factor in the asura gates I think once the game has been out for a while and people have had time to earn more money and/or settle into a farming routine the cost will be relatively negligable whilst also being an effective gold sink.

Someone say Legendary Black Qiraji Mount?

Kunari.1590:

Efaicia.3672:

Because Arenanet said so.
Arenanet has also said no to this.
I do not like mounts.

Agreed, this is WOW guys.

So, just because we would like mounts means we’re from WoW? I’ve never played WoW. Surprise, WoW isn’t the only mmorpg in the world. Mounts are common in mmos. :/

I don’t mind that there is no mount though, but I do feel forced toward a specific skill/weapon if I want swiftness.

Danikat.8537:

hasn’t even earned 1 gold yet I think the waypoints are pretty cheap. It’s something like 70c to go from Divinities Reach to Ebon Hawk, which is most of the way across the map. When you factor in the asura gates I think once the game has been out for a while and people have had time to earn more money and/or settle into a farming routine the cost will be relatively negligable whilst also being an effective gold sink.

If I was to port to the wp right next to me, that’s 60c. I heard to travel through a few maps at 80 that it cost 6s. Speaking of wp, I hate how you need to pay to revive to a wp on field.. (not that I die often anyway)

I do factor Asura Gates, it’s still a long way depending on where you are to get to the closest town, without swiftness. Might just be my impatience I guess.

Amra.6028:

Please no.
Mounts are useless in this game as a means of transportation and only make the world empty as no one is going to dismount to help you.

This person. This person gets it.

Mounts would literally instantly destroy everything ArenaNet has done to promote player interaction. And it would screw with my beloved jumping puzzles.

The reason there’s no mounts in the game is to give it a bigger feeling

Amra.6028:

Please no.
Mounts are useless in this game as a means of transportation and only make the world empty as no one is going to dismount to help you.

You can literally teleport to anywhere on map and mounts would make this game empty?

Qelris.6901:

Mounts are something I’d like to see in this game. Waypoints gets expensive and other than that, you’re forced to use x weapons to have a swiftness buffs, or an utility

Waypoint are THE gold sink of the game. Mounts would not only suck because you would skip all the content and beautiful sights with them, but also completely destroy the economy.

A: No mounts in GW 2.

Mounts + No extra speed + be able to gather and revive players = Success?

I agree that for transport mounts would be problematic and would hurt the spontaneity of battle. I can’t count how many times Ive been get mykitten handed to me and have asome gracious soul come by and save me at the last second.

Now, that being said, the one thing, and something I really enjoyed with mounts in WoW, was the “bird eye view”. And with a world a beautiful as Tyria, I would love to be able to fly around and take in the views.

While I def. dont want mounts for transport in this game, I would love to be able to see everything from above. Maybe an “attraction” type NPC where you could fly up and look around for a cost but you have a time limit and can’t dismount anywhere except the NPC. Don’t know just brainstorming here.

Duckzor.4327:

Mounts + No extra speed + be able to gather and revive players = Success?

What would be the freaking point of mounts then?

Why do humans always want to mount everything they see, just to show how superior they are…

eladox.3457:

Amra.6028:

Please no.
Mounts are useless in this game as a means of transportation and only make the world empty as no one is going to dismount to help you.

You can literally teleport to anywhere on map and mounts would make this game empty?

Yes.
Just that. Right now, you port as close as you can, then walk. So there is no disadvantage in giving mobs a few shots to help someone and gain XP. If you ride, you don’t stop. The waypoints have fixed chosen locations that split the zones into regions that were designed to fight in, so mobs & events will usually occur between a waypoint and a special location like a task or another waypoint. Mounts would ruin that by breaking this fixed part, so events and mobs would have to be randomly scattered, reducing their actual value to the feel of the world as they would often not fit into their locations, I fear. Plus, no one needs mounts now, do we?
So as long as they’re not part of a costume and therefore only usable in town, no. No mounts.

Asum.4960:

Duckzor.4327:

Mounts + No extra speed + be able to gather and revive players = Success?

What would be the freaking point of mounts then?

Why do humans always want to mount everything they see, just to show how superior they are…

For appearance, of course.

I would not be even REMOTELY suprised if they bring them in a future update/expansion.

I think the people at Anet could come up with some awesome Cultural based mounts.

Asuran would have the best. :P

Mounts would be sweet, calvary skills, fighting on horseback…. ugghhhh future update plz

Mounts are used by people to run through areas from one point of interest to another while ignoring everything between the points. You’ll see far less people reviving one another, far less people engaging in fighting normal mobs, and the whole experience will be worse for it. GW2 does not need mounts just because “every other mmo has them”

The only mount I’d ever agree on is a Charr mount for the Asura… Sadly I think the Charr community would not enjoy being ridden on…

I agree,mounts would be cool even with no bonus movement speed.Those who like to mounts use them.Those who don’t, simple don’t use them. Besides, sometimes I get bored of running arround in wvw :/.

i always thought it was odd that there are no horses in tyria for some reason.

also, i believe Anet stated they will not implement mounts unless they can “make them cool”, i.e. add something interesting beyond the movement speed.

…You know, I doubt people who usually take the time to revive any downed player marked on their map will instantly just say “Screw the revives, I have a mach-5 dolyak!”. I really don’t get the severe hatred towards mounts.

And before it is asked, yes, I played WoW. After I’d already had GW1 for years. I dropped WoW after three months. I picked right back up on GW1.

There is no reason not to have mounts in this game. There already exist ‘speed boons’ that work the same way.

As far as I’ve been able to deduce, the most common arguments as to why mounts shouldn’t exist are either:

1. You wouldn’t stop to help another player.
2. It would make you use waypoints less, thus screwing up the gold sink.
3. You wouldn’t be as ‘involved’ in the world when you just speed by it.

To that I say:

1. That’s very dependent on the person in question. I, personally, would stop to help if I was in the near vicinity. For me it’s no different from what we already have (speed boons), the only difference is that a mount would make it less annoying to keep the movement speed up. I can still have it up 100% of the time, it just forces me to click a button when it’s about to run out.

2. I don’t think it would, but if it was the case and ArenaNet noticed a significant change they could simply have us sink gold elsewhere.

3. As I said in point #1, we already have speed boons that accomplish the same thing.

Flying mounts – no, never.
Ground mounts – yes, please.

NO, there should never be mounts of any kind in this game, it would take too much away from the feeling of openness, we have waypoints for a reason, and if walking from a waypoint to your destination is taking to long for you, an MMO may not be for you.

I think waypoints in a zone should be free once you have 100% completed that zone. It would give players another incentive to completely finish all of the exploration, skill, and yellow heart objectives.

I know I am gonna get some backlash for saying this (and let me just go on record by saying “I don’t care if they do or don’t.” “It’s ok like it is.”)) anyway …as long as the mounts are ground based and don’t give a continuous speed boon (much like what we already have)aka you can still get crippled, yanked off …or otherwise just snafooled …then its ok …
Yes, I guess when you mount (and here is the main point)make it able to fight on them much like when you pick a boulder up off the ground, the weapon bar changes to reflect what you can do with that new temporary weapon….I would not mind training new slot skills just for a fighting via a mount. Imagine for a second you get on the mount and a spear is equipped and you can do a joust move with a Centaur, or instead of resurrecting a downed player you have a skill that allows you to drag them back out of arms way. I am sure some of the PvPer’s could get ideas rolling in their heads on how a mounted pvp could play out.

A lot of people want mounts for the prestige of getting something that others can’t get easily, they want to be able to show off the mount in town, so people will be all like that mount is so cool.
And I remember playing GW1 we didn’t get mounts, but a bunch of mobs were in fact riding on a mount and fighting from its back…so I don’t really see why not, just don’t make it so its any better than speed boons we already got.

And for those who say mounts ruin the gold sink they set up with waypoints….you forget the mounts will need to be bought from somewhere and I am sure at a premium price too.

Forced walking at the time does seem tedious but it really makes a world. Remember Morrowind? Took forever to get anywhere but the immersion was amazing, then Oblivion came out with its magic maps and the immersion was gone. The adventure is the journey not the destination!

Agree with the OP,..we absolutely need mounts,..it’s essential to prevent more loading screens,..as if there are not enough already. There is no teleportation in this game,…it’s masked or a disguise when in reality it is another …you guessed it…a loading screen

This is dumbest idea I ever heard,…anytime you want to go somewhere you "teleport – and loading screen…and guess what happens after that?…yup….you in the Overflow….and then a pop up message appears…..TRAVEL to the regular game….oh brother

No thanks! This travel system blows big time. Give us mounts mounts and more mounts,…all the other mmo’s do. There has been some horrible dreadful design decisions in this game,…the other bad decision is the lvl down scaling and movement speed is also dreadfully slow

Alot I like about this game but also alot wrong especially the travel system

The teleporting waypoints take way more away from the sense of a world than mounts ever would, and i’m quite confused why they think those are okay and yet mounts which would at most speed you up a minor amount aren’t.

Gotta say too that the way the waypoint cost scales by level, not distance, is pretty stupid.

Elshagan.6342:

The only mount I’d ever agree on is a Charr mount for the Asura… Sadly I think the Charr community would not enjoy being ridden on…

I’d support Asurans riding fellow Charr players. No unbalancing speed increase that way. And Asurans should not have to walk. They need to spend more time thinking up more awesome stuff. For that matter let Asuarans ride all the other races. They are small enough, and it’s a good use for the other races. Makes them feel needed.

Skolvikings.5132:

I think waypoints in a zone should be free once you have 100% completed that zone. It would give players another incentive to completely finish all of the exploration, skill, and yellow heart objectives.

Yes. But only within the zone. Not into or out of.

Moa Birds, the Moa stable and stable keeper, look suspiciously like potential future mount related material.

We have those. They’re called speed buffs. The thing about mounts is that once they’re introduced, eventually everyone has them. Even if you make them incredibly hard to get (which makes no sense anyway), people still end up with them. And that looks positively stupid when you enter a game and no one ever walks anywhere.

Mount or not really does not matter, I rather we do not have it. I do enjoy running around the map and occasionally reviving players . I am pretty sure I will “miss” them while running through on a mount. Lol

Mounts are pointless when you have waypoints.

Sorry I think you got this game mixed up with WoW

Little tip for those that want to go back to a city without having to spend anything. Press H, go to the pvp tab and press “Go to the heart of the Mists” Tada you’re now in close proximity of an Asuran gate that will bring you to Lions Arch.

edit: on-topic no mounts! they don’t fit into the game.

The last thing this game needs is more clutter. Anywhere where players gather (battles, trading post, crafting stations), are already cluttered with players. Adding more visual elements will not help.

This also goes for the real of the world. The game is already jam packed with visual elements. Everywhere you turn there are events, animals, settlements, waypoints, etc. The last thing this game needs is more elements on the screen.

Yes give us mounts! I hate moving through an area w/o a mount. The price of way points along with the low amount of coin generated way-points can be come expensive. Even other free mmo’s, some weak and some not so weak, let ya “rent” and eventually buy mounts.

The world has expanded and getting around fast is what people want. Put mounts in the game then everyone can chose to ride or not it would be their choice and everyone is happy.

This is tyria. only dwarves use mounts, and in guild wars 2 there are no dwarves. Stop asking/ speculating about mounts in the future. It is not going to happen unless the lore writers stop having a say in the game’s content.

I would like to see mounts in the game. If all one get from them is a swiftness buff it would be nice. Can’t understand why this should be that big of an issue, and I am sure quite a few people would buy neat looking mounts in the cash shop. So everybody would win (and people who don’t like them could still use the swiftness buffs on utilities and weapon skills they have).

I don’t see the harm of adding mounts in the game. Not stupid useless travel mounts like WoW’s (Sorry WoW players)

Add in the Guild Wars2 combat system in it! When you mount, you get 5 different skills (probably according to what type of mount).

I really don’t see the harm in that.

Idea of personal owned mounts? Hate the idea, every other game under the darn sun has it…. We don’t need it….
but,
Idea of a stable being in the game in certain areas where you would pick up a mount as a temporary world weapon for like 5 minutes for a different style of combat until you “break it” ?
I can live with that.

just reduce the cost for waypoints at level 80. T_T Paying 1s80c to rez back to the waypoint 1 feet away from me is abusive. I don’t care paying for my long distance travel. But my short distance travel shouldn’t cost me more then repairing my armor… seriously…?