Guild Wars 2

Answer —>

Here is a poll result

Should GW2 have mounts like horses & Dragons?
Should we have our own mounts i.e. Horses, or even rideable dragon ? Like in DAoC and WoW and many other MMOs

Yes. Both in WvWvW and PvE 12% (19 votes)
Yes. But only in PvE 20% (31 votes)
Maybe 6% (9 votes)
No 61% (94 votes)
Total votes: 153

Source : http://www.gw2wvw.net/content/should-gw2-have-mounts-horses-dragons-closes-27feb
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I voted yes but it seems ~40% want them. I still hope Anet implements mounts in wvw and pve.

They are utterly pointless in GW2. They serve some function in those others games, but here in GW2 they would only be for vanity reasons.

Fuzzion.2504:

Answer —>

Here is a poll result

Should GW2 have mounts like horses & Dragons?
Should we have our own mounts i.e. Horses, or even rideable dragon ? Like in DAoC and WoW and many other MMOs

Yes. Both in WvWvW and PvE 12% (19 votes)
Yes. But only in PvE 20% (31 votes)
Maybe 6% (9 votes)
No 61% (94 votes)
Total votes: 153

Source : http://www.gw2wvw.net/content/should-gw2-have-mounts-horses-dragons-closes-27feb
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I voted yes but it seems ~40% want them. I still hope Anet implements mounts in wvw and pve.

Should be a ranger only function. What else should we use the pets for. Albeit, will be interesting to see how we can mount a Owl….

Prysin.8542:

Fuzzion.2504:

Answer —>

Here is a poll result

Should GW2 have mounts like horses & Dragons?
Should we have our own mounts i.e. Horses, or even rideable dragon ? Like in DAoC and WoW and many other MMOs

Yes. Both in WvWvW and PvE 12% (19 votes)
Yes. But only in PvE 20% (31 votes)
Maybe 6% (9 votes)
No 61% (94 votes)
Total votes: 153

Source : http://www.gw2wvw.net/content/should-gw2-have-mounts-horses-dragons-closes-27feb
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I voted yes but it seems ~40% want them. I still hope Anet implements mounts in wvw and pve.

Should be a ranger only function. What else should we use the pets for. Albeit, will be interesting to see how we can mount a Owl….

Not gonna lie, that is actually an awesome idea. (And i can see the birds carrying players instead of being ridden. hehe)

Isn’t like you need to go very far on any map, they are not needed.

This game has waypoints and dont need mounts, boy im glad kitten people dont come to brag with their stupid horse or dragon in here phew

The results are in, before I even knew there was a poll. Whats the point of hosting all these polls if nobody knows about them? ^^

Offair.2563:

This game has waypoints and dont need mounts, boy im glad kitten people dont come to brag with their stupid horse or dragon in here phew

Skyrim has both mounts and fast travel. It works fine.

Yes, we need the zergs moving around the maps even faster in WvW because this makes perfect sense to the maps already being to small.

Aesthetically they’d be cool.

Though with the amount of waypoints built into the game they’d serve no real actual purpose.

yes yes yes… vanity and speed between WP. $$$$ on store.

Im sorry i will next time post poll questions a little earlier.

Does anyone know if GW1 had mounts?

no they did not, they had taxi’s. Players geared and spec’d to run other players from zone to zone. In GW1 if a party member crossed zones the whole party would join them in the new zone.

People wanting mounts should just go play another game. They do not understand this game, not by a long shot.

As an asura … i want a charr as mount … to ride into battle in WvW

The game doesn’t need any mounts at all, WvW or PvE.

But to satisfy both sides, if they do add mounts, they should be pay to use and what I mean by that is moving from point A to B cost X amount. For example Garrison to bay cost 10 silver. Vigil Keep to Durmand Priory should be 10 times the cost of using the waypoints. Both do not give any advantage whatsoever other then being a mount.

Basically the cost can be attributed to maintenance, feeding or whatever.

Fuzzion.2504:

Should we have our own mounts i.e. Horses, or even rideable dragon ? *Like in DAoC *

daoc had mounts?

runeblade.7514:

Offair.2563:

This game has waypoints and dont need mounts, boy im glad kitten people dont come to brag with their stupid horse or dragon in here phew

Skyrim has both mounts and fast travel. It works fine.

Skyrim is also Open World and not zone based, Thus Fast Travel are not always the best way to get around as you “jump over” a lot of content in the process.

Just because other games has included mounts, does not mean it would benefit GuildWars 2 in the same manner. Unless ArenaNet/NC Soft decides to make the game open world and not zone based, i see no way of this adding anything to the game other then a “kitten competition”

Coarr.3286:

Fuzzion.2504:

Should we have our own mounts i.e. Horses, or even rideable dragon ? *Like in DAoC *

daoc had mounts?

Yup. It was released in the later years.

Maps are too small in GW2 for mounts…not really a need for them.

Pheppo.9286:

As an asura … i want a charr as mount … to ride into battle in WvW

I’d like to have a War Chariot pulled by 8 Asura too.

Fuzzion.2504:

Coarr.3286:

Fuzzion.2504:

Should we have our own mounts i.e. Horses, or even rideable dragon ? *Like in DAoC *

daoc had mounts?

Yup. It was released in the later years.

The game originally only had horses you “rented” (like WoW’s gryphon’s) that went on a preset path from town to town (not even to the city doors). Difference was, you could hop off the horse any where on the horse’s preset run to get to places near the path.

In PvE and RvR, if you wanted speed, you included a class that had the ability to speed buff other players (and there weren’t that many.)

The world was rather large. No waypoints (although Frontiers changed that a little.). Fun times on foot scrambling out to defend a keep / relic. Especially after waiting to be ported.

Back on topic: can’t see the need for mounts in GW2 because the world is too small and waypoints exist. However, I could see them putting “unique” mounts in the gem store and possibly an 8000 gem " lifetime bus pass" for waypoints.

Fuzzion.2504:

Coarr.3286:

Fuzzion.2504:

Should we have our own mounts i.e. Horses, or even rideable dragon ? *Like in DAoC *

daoc had mounts?

Yup. It was released in the later years.

Yeah after New Frontiers when DAoC turned to total kitten. No thank you, I don’t think we need anything like that in GW2 and I am pretty sure ANET will never add them given what was said on the subject over the years during the games development, thank goodness.

I’d say no. Mounts for the most part seem like a way for subscription mmo’s to make getting from point to point take longer. Because the longer it takes just travel, the less you get done, the longer you need to be subscribed to see all content. Waypoints are super quick and cheap, with no sub there is no point in adding time sinks.
Also they always have seemed kinda corny to me. I have no idea why, just a personal feeling.

Raf.1078:

Pheppo.9286:

As an asura … i want a charr as mount … to ride into battle in WvW

I’d like to have a War Chariot pulled by 8 Asura too.

An asura ridin a charr is just a snack for the road.

A War Chariot pulled by 8 asura is just going nowhere after the first pothole.

runeblade.7514:

Skyrim has both mounts and fast travel. It works fine.

And we all know skyrim and guild wars 2 are pretty much the same…

The maps are already so small lol

There are some valid points for not having one in WvW.

But imagine flying over tyria with a dragon. Comeon its a dragon! Just imagine the additional customization you could make on the dragon with extra loot bags, color them etc.

apparently the alliance battles in ESO (their WvW clone) is so huge and has so much empty space that they encourage you to save up for a mount to traverse it faster.

Well, if they put in mounts they should be easily seen from a distance to give the riders presence away and move no faster than yaks,

So I give you the new GW2 mount…

NO. Mounts would not make sense to have in wvw. Use your legs and stop belly aching.
-more lag
-awkward combat transition
-pay to win (they would most definitely be exclusive to the gem store)
-WE HAVE WAYPOINTS

Pve? Sure.

I must vote no on this one.

Stand The Wall.6987:

NO. Mounts would not make sense to have in wvw. Use your legs and stop belly aching.
-more lag
-awkward combat transition
-pay to win (they would most definitely be exclusive to the gem store)
-WE HAVE WAYPOINTS

Pve? Sure.

AYe, atleast in PVE

If GW2 releases mounts, im going back to WoW.

its bad enough they are sucking the life out of my video card for these stupid kittening vanity finishers.

I’d actually be in favor of having mounts.. only if you cannot attack on one AND given say a 5 or 10 second cooldown to dismount. Basically if a mounted zerg approaches another zerg on foot attacking a tower, they can’t just rush up behind and attack. Give the on foot zerg a chance to wipe them out.

certainly not in any form of pvp or wvw but for pve i’d like one for purely vanity purposes

Can we change the thread to discuss how horrible you are at statistics?

Never mind you don’t have a representative sample. I also like how you are ignoring a rather definitive no vote of 60 percent while lumping multiple flavors of yes and the maybes, which still only gets you to 38 percent, then rounding up to 40 percent just because.

ArenaNet has said no, your poll says no. The answer is no. Let it go.

fix balance first. then we’ll talk mounts.

Well, before we go off on this subject more, how about we ask Fuzzion WHY he wants mounts in the game?