Anti-mount people keep telling the pro-mount people there’s no need for mounts. For the most part, I don’t see the pro-mount people saying they need them. Just that they want them.
Really!? Might want to read your own post below.
Okay, I did. Can’t find the spot where I said I needed a mount.
I’m glad that you agreed with my assessment. The pro-mount side want a game breaking, content by passing addition to the game. Something that will let them go across maps, very fast, free of the waypoint system that is part of the GW world setting and all those pesky restrictions (and silly nominal cost). Not to mentionn speed up exploration to irrelavance.
Quite the opposite. I want a quick way to get across a map by actually travelling through it, rather than teleporting past it. I don’t want a mount to bypass the, as you say, silly nominal cost.
You can’t teleport past it till you explore it. You want to “power gamer” through all that intervening terrain that is in your way.
Then you want it so you can move from event to event, after way-pointing in, so you can farm even harder core than you already are.
Point out where I’m wrong or why exactly you need a perm +60% move bonus between map ends?
No, I want a mount. It’s not even a huge want. There’s a long list of things I’d rather have done in the game first, but that doesn’t mean I’m not willing to defend the idea of having mounts in the game.
I don’t think having to keep a focus equipped on my Mesmer or a staff on my Guardian to switch them out as I enter combat brings anything to the game. It’s a minor QoL issue that I’d be happy if it was gone. It certainly doesn’t make the game any richer having to swap weapons before I enter combat.
You can try to paint me as some sort of lazy welfare gamer with your ad hominem attack, but I’m not looking to ezmode the game by removing meaningful obstacles with a mount. I have no problem removing meaningless obstacles with them, however.
Actually I had you pegged for a power gamer. There was no attack directed (ad hominem or in general) to your gaming style. Only on the concept of needing something that’s only needed for those not happy with how things work in the game currently.
While I’d like a 60% speed boost mount, which would put me in the world more than our current fast travel system, a post search will show you that I’ve always been against flying mounts.
Well thanks that you can see how that would truly break things. Hope spring eternal.
In another response I noted that I’d be for mounts if they were just like the broom or dredge bore. See I’m not against mounts, sorry to suprise you. I’m agaist YOU, the player(s) that have that “we don’t want to deal with this game the way it was made” mentality.
So any request for change is a player trying to shortcut “the way this game was made”?
I suppose people shouldn’t have gotten account wide WXP, because character specific WXP was “the way this game was made!” Or no LFG tool should have been implemented because that was “the way this game was made!” Or pick whatever improvement you’ve liked since launch.
Red herring attack on the argument. The incompatibility of one doesn’t preclude another. For example, the LFG tool was needed to help the community out and make PUG groups easier to organize. It’s a tool that is in many (most?) MMORPG games out. It does not run counter to any game mechanic or change how the world setting continues.
The fact that there is all ready a way to move through map content quickly means the developers already dealt with the speed/mount issue from a game mechanics point of view. They might revise it later but wishing they would give you a method to rip through constant even faster is poor form. To say it should be added because of all these other additions to the game is disingenuous.
My apologies for my lack of clarity.
Nope you were quite clear, more so than I think you were aware of.
I don’t see how that can be true, since the message I intended was not the message I gave.
Maybe you are just saying things the way you meant and not the way you want.
Peace.
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