Guild Wars 2

Title sums it up.

It is far past time that anet released mounts for this game.
So the game has waypoints, so what! They are not mutually exclusive concepts. You can have mounts AND waypoints just fine. Besides anet loves to give people the legendary carrots to chase, so they can make legendary mount skins.

im tired of slow running everywhere. Give us mounts!

Tortles mounts would work fine then

No.

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theres no need for mounts . Not only are there waypoints but virtually all classes have a viable speed buff

Mounts are not to replace waypoints! They are for looking awesome. I would live to see horses introduced.

I know how you feel buddy, even with the 24/7 speed buff on ele (capped 33%). I still feel so slow. Anet should know since they are also developing another mmo “Blade and Soul” and you can run and roam really fast in that game.

Humbolio.2174:

Mounts are not to replace waypoints! They are for looking awesome. I would live to see horses introduced.

The only horses I remember seeing were centaurs and I wouldn’t want to ride one. The never-ending shout of “For the Tamini” would make me want to ride it off a cliff on a regular basis.

Save your sanity and ride a dolyak complete with saddle-bags for extra storage.

I’m joking. Get a broom. It’s the only “mount” I’ve seen and it makes my female sylvari necro smile in such a creepy way

uknortherner.2670:

Personally, I’m tired of these threads. GW2 does not need mounts.

Then why do you feel the need to continue to tire yourself so freely?
The fastest way to kill a /thread is to not justify it. If no one post in a thread it goes to page two in a matter of a couple of hours. The ones who are keeping these mount threads at the top are not the pro-mount players, but the naysayers.
Just for once don’t comment in them and let them fly far and fast to next page and out of site til the next one crops up that can and should just as easily let be ignored.
You guys terrorize your own self by keeping the thread aloft. If this horse is dead as I have herd so many times before, then stop poking it and making it come back from its brink of death to cling to what little life it has.

I am Pro-mount by the way as you may have already known. I am just as tired of defending the animal, but if we both walk away now, he will put his head down and slowly the life will leave his side.

Humbolio.2174:

Mounts are not to replace waypoints! They are for looking awesome. I would live to see horses introduced.

This!

Valhalla.5620:

I know how you feel buddy, even with the 24/7 speed buff on ele (capped 33%). I still feel so slow. Anet should know since they are also developing another mmo “Blade and Soul” and you can run and roam really fast in that game.

And this!

Clearly a couple people get it.

The 25% speed boost is pathetic, it just doesn’t cut it. Furthermore I am sick of losing so much money using the kitten Waypoints. Why do they even need to have a fee? To me that is just adding insult to injury!

Add mounts, its not that hard and it adds a lot of flavor and enjoyment to the game.
Giving players options makes happy players. Happy players don’t go looking for better games to play.

I’ve not played GW2 for a year, and after only 2 days I am remember why I uninstalled it in the first place. Taking ages to get anywhere or being charged a cheap-kitten fee is just one of a pile of things that aggravate me about this game.

Rovaeden.8546:

Title sums it up.

It is far past time that anet released mounts for this game.
So the game has waypoints, so what! They are not mutually exclusive concepts. You can have mounts AND waypoints just fine. Besides anet loves to give people the legendary carrots to chase, so they can make legendary mount skins.

im tired of slow running everywhere. Give us mounts!

Mounts would let players ride through mobs without getting hit.

Onshidesigns.1069:

Rovaeden.8546:

Title sums it up.

It is far past time that anet released mounts for this game.
So the game has waypoints, so what! They are not mutually exclusive concepts. You can have mounts AND waypoints just fine. Besides anet loves to give people the legendary carrots to chase, so they can make legendary mount skins.

im tired of slow running everywhere. Give us mounts!

Mounts would let players ride through mobs without getting hit.

OMG THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE!
Gamebreaking even! Oh the horror!

Seriously, guy… is that your best argument?

Every other MMO ever has had a system to circumvent that, and thats not even the point.

Better luck next time.

My class (guardian) doesn’t get any run speed buffs (except 33 temp from staff, but seriously swapping in staff for an 8 second speed buff is a joke), BUT, I don’t have any complaints about speed. Having a mount would purely be for show, which I’m not against. Just don’t put it under the guise of needing run speed.

Rovaeden.8546:

OMG THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE!
Gamebreaking even! Oh the horror!

Seriously, guy… is that your best argument?

Every other MMO ever has had a system to circumvent that, and thats not even the point.

Better luck next time.

“because every other MMO has it”, “Because it would look cool” and “Your argument is weak” are not valid reasons to have mounts.

A good majority of the time, the reason why MMOs have mounts is because of a lack of travel. WoW would have a severe lack of means of travel if they did not have mounts and flying mounts at that. On the contrary, Runescape doesn’t have mounts because you can teleport to every major city with a spell.

GW2 does not have a travel problem, it has a lag problem that stems from the fact that they are using an outdated engine. Until they upgrade it, you are never going to see mounts. The server and people’s processors do not need more crap to process.

Rovaeden.8546:

Onshidesigns.1069:

Rovaeden.8546:

Title sums it up.

It is far past time that anet released mounts for this game.
So the game has waypoints, so what! They are not mutually exclusive concepts. You can have mounts AND waypoints just fine. Besides anet loves to give people the legendary carrots to chase, so they can make legendary mount skins.

im tired of slow running everywhere. Give us mounts!

Mounts would let players ride through mobs without getting hit.

OMG THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE!
Gamebreaking even! Oh the horror!

Seriously, guy… is that your best argument?

Every other MMO ever has had a system to circumvent that, and thats not even the point.

Better luck next time.

It is gamebreaking, when you can just ride through hard areas unscaved.

You will never ever get faster then running speed mounts in GW2!

It may just be me, but it’s about time GW released some mounts. It takes so long to get across the map sometimes, and that annoys me lol. Release them in the gem store and if we want them we have the choice to buy them

It’s mostly you and a few other people that want mounts. Many of us are against it. Guild Wars 1 never had any except the desert wurm for certain missions and you were the wurm. Guild Wars 2 should never get mounts either. Sorry but if you want mounts there are plenty of other games out there with them in it. Leave GW’s out of the “ride” games. The human won so the wp’s aren’t as expensive and gives you a chance to enjoy the artwork. Game On

Hmm, pondering the possibilities beyond mere travel, mounts could be a way to introduce new weapon skills, and even new weapons – like the lance. Plus, once the mount hurdle was… um… hurdled, they could add cool mounted moa jousting to some celebration or other. Fun for the whole family.

Still, if we ever were to get mounts, I’d want a dragon. I bet ol’ Zhaitan has some kittens out there somewhere.

no. End of discussion.

Ironically, during the Priory story…
Spoiler

Sieren actually takes you to an abandoned cave where you see the ghost of a drake. Which was a -mount- to one of the great dwarves. So, its in the lore.

However, there’d be alot of mechanical issues with having mounts to be honest. The only reason I’d want them is for aesthetics. Beyond that would cause too many problems for how the game runs. Traveling isn’t a big problem to be honest, only underwater seems to suffer.

if there are more “mounts” to be introduced, it would be more like the flying broomstick.

Another mount thread. Imagine that.

no no no, I came from WoW to this game and mounts totally ruined the immersion over there, they are too convenient and you spend half the time looking at the kittenty tree-tops and not enjoying the world.

I really hope they never bring mounts into the game.

No

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Rovaeden.8546:

legendary carrots

I’d buy that for a dollar!

Vitus Dance.4509:

Rovaeden.8546:

legendary carrots

I’d buy that for a dollar!

+1 for Robocop reference. Nice play.

Game does not need mounts with its port system, and you would never be able to have flying mounts.

What’s wrong with the waypoint system? It takes a loading screen to get where you want.

Mounts would be excellent and add to the horizontal progression system in the game(could give mounts for living world release meta rewards and in boxes). Could have race-specific ones as well and itd make exploring more fun.(could even have “mount” jumping puzzles only possible if you have a mount)

i don’t mind mounts as long as they stay on land, flying mounts are for both RPGers and game devs a nightmare. (they ruin the game’s immersion)

for GW2, i look at mounts the way i look at mounts in skyrim, they don’t have to be a problem as long as the game keeps players from simply ignoring enemies.
i can understand that you don’t want to wait for every single enemy but there are ways to keep it balanced, lotro has health on their horses and defiance has endurance on them.
ether by making them run slow when attacked or killed when attacked, there are ways to make mounts balanced.

i think that a speed of 40% is plenty given that they require a certain mastery, something like having 3 masteries.
1.) 20% speed for level 10+
2.) 30% speed for level 40+
3.) 40% speed for level 70+

it makes leveling have a use and keeps low levels in check.

Arenanet has already specifically said that mounts will not be added to the game. Period.

When I met the devs at PAX East 2011, I asked them about mounts. Here is what they said verbatim:

“If we were to add mounts, they would be Dragons”

Meaning they would be flying mounts.

There’s a mount in GW1. The dwarf who killed Rurik was riding on one.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

There’s a mount in GW1. The dwarf who killed Rurik was riding on one.

Yeah that’s Dagnar Stonepate and he is riding a Drake.

GreyMouser.1235:

Arenanet has already specifically said that mounts will not be added to the game. Period.

they also said they wouldn’t introduce a gear treadmill cough cough ascended cough….but in all seriousness no to the mounts, we have waypoints for a reason.

GreyMouser.1235:

Arenanet has already specifically said that mounts will not be added to the game. Period.

They also said there wouldnt be new gear tiers added and that the living story would permanently change the world.

People keep mentioning the waypoints, but this is not the primary reason for mounts in my mind, mounts are a vanity item that make moving around on the ground a bit quicker. Waypoints make travel between waypoints faster yes but that doesnt mean we couldnt ride a horse after waypointing.

I’d rather have mounts added than the power creep of the ascended and the grind mechanics meant to keep people logging in daily or falling behind.

If the GW2 world gets bigger, mounts maybe a good idea.

GreyMouser.1235:

Arenanet has already specifically said that mounts will not be added to the game. Period.

I hope they hold true to this. Adding mounts would just turn this into WoW.2, thus I’d be forced to abandon this. Never played wow, only seen it and aghast by every bit of it. This game’s perfectly fine without ’em.

Mounts (that increase movement speed, as opposed to being simply cosmetic) would be a bad idea for WvW. That said, Anet will probably introduce them as they move the game closer and closer to your traditional MMO.

Plimph.1842:

It may just be me, but it’s about time GW released some mounts. It takes so long to get across the map sometimes, and that annoys me lol. Release them in the gem store and if we want them we have the choice to buy them

Agree, if anything a very small speed increase. Just blows me away players of GW go head over heels on minis, but so anti mounts?

I find it pretty smart and funny NCsoft other game is a direct opposite of GW2 and will snag all the players that want dueling, combat mounts, world pvp, housing, and sub for content. Very smart company.

sorudo.9054:

i don’t mind mounts as long as they stay on land, flying mounts are for both RPGers and game devs a nightmare. (they ruin the game’s immersion)

for GW2, i look at mounts the way i look at mounts in skyrim, they don’t have to be a problem as long as the game keeps players from simply ignoring enemies.
i can understand that you don’t want to wait for every single enemy but there are ways to keep it balanced, lotro has health on their horses and defiance has endurance on them.
ether by making them run slow when attacked or killed when attacked, there are ways to make mounts balanced.

i think that a speed of 40% is plenty given that they require a certain mastery, something like having 3 masteries.
1.) 20% speed for level 10+
2.) 30% speed for level 40+
3.) 40% speed for level 70+

it makes leveling have a use and keeps low levels in check.

Yeah, im not asking for flying mounts. Heck I know the game isnt built for that. I ran up over a hill i obviously wasnt supposed to be able to run over and I fell through the world.

What I am suggesting is standard +60% speed mounts. I supposed Anet could put in +100% epic mounts as well but I dont even care about that. Just SOMETHING that is meaningfully faster than what we have now!

there are mounts in the game go use them and if there is comming more mounts i hope they are beinbg done in the same style as the last mount they added.

if you dont know the last mount i remember being added is the RIDING broom and is a “mount” that looks ok but DONT increases your move speed

Rovaeden.8546:

lots of fluff

No. I am pretty sure I am right on this one. You aren’t the first person to Ad Hominem and Straw-man through every comment that disagrees. You, like the rest of them, have no real basis to your arguments. You, like the rest of them, take things out of context and twist words to support your point. You, like the rest of them, don’t care what the larger chunk of the community shows you so long as you get your mounts.

This is the 7th mount topic I have been in where the OP offers the same deal, someone argues with the same points and everyone who disagrees gets shot down “because they are wrong”. No, I think I hit the nail on the head in the first sentence. It doesn’t matter what I say though because I am not agreeing with you. I don’t use that little bit of brainpower as you so simply put so of course I have no clue what I am talking about. [/sarcasm]

Here is what you don’t understand:

You guys are a very vocal and small minority and Anet isn’t going to change the game to support your whims.

Stop asking for something you are not going to get.

I don’t want mounts because I don’t care for the extra screen clutter and quite honestly I don’t care for the look they add to the game. Fortunately I doubt they are ever going to include mounts in the game aside from riding sticks.

Flying Mounts. Yes!

Lord Kuru.3685:

Mounts (that increase movement speed, as opposed to being simply cosmetic) would be a bad idea for WvW. That said, Anet will probably introduce them as they move the game closer and closer to your traditional MMO.

Could you expand on this? It would seem to me that mounts wouldnt be too bad because you still get stopped at a gate.

mXz.4512:

GreyMouser.1235:

Arenanet has already specifically said that mounts will not be added to the game. Period.

I hope they hold true to this. Adding mounts would just turn this into WoW.2, thus I’d be forced to abandon this. Never played wow, only seen it and aghast by every bit of it. This game’s perfectly fine without ’em.

What’s WoW got to do, got to do with it?
What’s WoW, but a game that I don’t play-ay-ay?
What’s WoW got to do, got to do with it?
Who cares what WoW does? I’d just like a pony!

cheshirefox.7026:

it’s ok to want mounts.. but it certainly isn’t needed nor would it be easily implemented..
if they gave us mounts i wouldn’t argue, but i personally feel it is in good judgement not to nudge them to work on it.. that is simply my opinion, i know some people feel otherwise

I never said mounts were needed. I said there were a number of valid reasons why their addition would benefit the game.

As for nudging the devs, if you don’t speak up and let them know your feelings then how are they going to know what the community wants.