Guild Wars 2

NinjaEd.3946:

Raine Akrune.8416:

dimgl.4786:

Please do not add mounts for the love of God.

Why? Reasoning please.

Um.. how about wp? and Asura gates? Tyria’s occupants can get around in a flash already so to fit the lore, well it wouldn’t. WE have plenty of bling to show off, mounts would only let you skip content easier, and clutter up cities, and we already have speed boosts from consumables if not skills.Please Shut this topic down AreaNet or atleast tell the community yourself, that you are not considering adding mounts at all to shut em up about it.

Or maybe ANet is considering it or isn’t sure what to do at the moment hence not shutting it down. Quite the straight forward do what I say now approach. Also I don’t believe you were the OP of the post I quoted so please, step back and let that person speak for their own opinion.

Home World: Devona’s Rest
Guild Name: The Burning Eden
Guild Website: theburningeden.guildlaunch.com
In-Game Contact: Raine Akrune.8416
Focus: sPvP/WvWvW
Quick Notes: We’re a casual, active, and laid back guild that likes to chat and joke around. We started as a group of close real life friends and since we’ve grown more have joined our family. We mainly focus on sPvP and WvWvW but we cover all aspects of the game.

dimgl.4786:

Please do not add mounts for the love of God.

Why? Reasoning please.

I have always been a fan of this idea. So many people have smartphones which alert them to text messages, phone calls, facebook notifications, twitter interactions, sports team updates, news, weather…you get my point.

Why not make an iOS/Android app that lets you stay in touch with the guild. You should at least be able to chat with your guild mates but I would personally love to see full guild control. Perhaps even a guild vault spycam so you can see whats in there currently. That would be handy to save people from traveling far to look in the vault for nothing.

So this will be a two part suggestion…

Suggestion 1: Guild Name/Tag Change
Most MMOs have the option to pay or contact a GM for a name change. Since we already have paid server transfers on the eventual horizon and character name changes why not offer this option? Lots of guilds over time expand from their start up days to being big timers on their server to even expanding across multiple games and/or genres.

Suggestion 2: Personal Accessory Change
So I’ll use my Asuran as the example. We start out with a personal headband to color which as far as I know is a one time deal. If you can change it 30 levels after character creation to a new color someone please reply and let me know. Now, why not add new unlockables from playing the game and completing certain objectives. Perhaps new designs and new headgear (or applicable items for your race).

Just two quick thoughts I had while trolling the forums.
~Meri

kousei.5914:

Max Lexandre.6279:

We don’t need mounts. We need cheaper waypoints for maps we already completed. :P

This! Please ANET never implement mounts.

AGREED!… for the waypoint decrease

Johnny Whoa.8126:

Sorry to burst everyone’s “I hate mounts” bubble, but…

(And I’m not sure if anyone’s mentioned this, I’m not going to drive through 6 pages looking for it)

I remember early in GW2’s production I read an interview regarding the features that would one day be implemented in the game. One talked about the meta event chains, and the specific example was to help repair a bridge. If you succeeded you could get across and find some chest of loot. If you failed you were attacked by something (I want to say a dragon of some sort?).

But the important thing here is that in that article, they mentioned GW2 would have “vehicles.”
And I for one look forward to them. I love on-foot exploring, and I’d like the speed boost to zip around faster. I also imagine mounted combat would be implemented eventually, which sounds like it could be really interesting.

Charr Jeep Wrangler ftw!

Batbro.6859:

I would hate to see mounts. What it does is that it creates essentially two “modes” players in the world assume, a jarring dichotomy that discourages cooperation, one of the pillars of this game’s design.

The first mode is the walking mode players are currently forced into. Even using waypoints, you are still forced to walk, on foot, around the world, past and through dynamic events, world bosses, and hearts. At a moment’s notice you could join in on any given fight, hop slightly out of your way to revive a downed player, or maybe just drop a field for other players to use as you pass on by. It’s highly encouraging of cooperative play and exploration of not just the main paths, but the surrounding landscape.

The second mode would be mounted. You’re on your mount and invested in it, either because you have to keep it safe, or because mounting/dismounting takes time, or because you’re just passing by everything else so quickittenhat you don’t have time to care. Joining that dynamic event would require parking your mount somewhere or wasting time mounting/dismounting. Saving that dying player would mean leaving your mount to reach him, because you can’t traverse the uneven platformer-esque landscape to reach him while you’re on it. You just plow straight by everyone and everything in the game, completely unhelpful to everyone around you.

Unless you want mounts to just magically appear and disappear instantaneously from underneath your character with no cooldowns or penalties, there’s simply no way to avoid this issue. If you have to trek back to a stable to pick up a new mount, there’s a time, or even monetary, investment in getting off it. If there is a cooldown on summoning them, there’s another time investment. If there’s a slow mounting/dismounting animation, more wasted time discouraging players from getting out of “mount mode.” If the mounts themselves are vulnerable, the problem is WORSENED as players will actively AVOID any sort of dangerous area, which is where they would be needed most.

This game is built upon players cooperatively helping each other, even unintentionally. Your attacks drop combo fields on the ground, which other players then use. Two players completing the same heart target the same enemies, and unintentionally make each others’ lives easier. A world boss threatens all the players in the area simultaneously, so they all target it together and, through their combined efforts, take it down. Giving players mounts is giving them an excuse to be deliberately unhelpful.

I honestly don’t know what to say aside from what MMOs have you been playing? I read your paragraph on mounts being a time investment, having to travel back to get a new one, etc etc. Maybe you have travel mounts and personal mounts mixed up?

For example, in Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO for short here on out) there was both. You could take a regular horse from a stable and ride to a destination, later they added fast travel which would trot a few paces before teleporting right outside the destination and trot on in. Then you had personal mounts which you could summon and dismiss at a whim but the horses had hp bars so if you took enough damage you were getting dismounted from it.

WoW was similar with the flying travel to destinations and the personal land mounts before flying mounts got introduced.

Now like I said, I don’t know what games you’ve been playing but that’s a pretty jaded statement about mounts and the players riding them. I’ve seen people on foot in Guild Wars 2 run past those in need which in turn causes me to go help when others won’t. How would giving them a mount change anything? I would dismount to help people in need just like some would keep riding as they would have just kept walking instead.

I agree if mounts are to be introduced ANet needs to think long and hard on just what they want us doing with them. I think in WvWvW it would be an invaluable tool for those willing to work towards them but likewise with everything else in the game it can’t be an overall game changer.

Sadly as much as we all go back and forth on the topic it’s ultimately up to ANet to say “Yes!” or “No!”

Risa Aerulight.3914:

I don’t want mounts. Mounts are WOW’s thing. Tyria is too cool already for mounts. We have Asuran way point and gate technology, the culture in this game has moved past the need for using mounts to get from point A to point B.

First, that’s an ignorant statement given that mounted travel is older than WoW. Also the only reason WoW got flying mounts was thanks to a bug which never got fixed that would sometimes bug the travel griffin so you’d still be riding one after landing at the travel roost.

I wouldn’t say we’ve moved past mounts, if you check out LOTRO’s monster play the evil creatures only have maps to travel around with (aka waypoints) and the free peoples have mounts. While playing that was one of the biggest cries of anguish “Give us mounts as well!”

I’m really impartial though I’ve always been a fan of collecting them, especially in WoW since they had hidden/hard to get mounts from raids and hidden quests. Given the good amount of minipets and the “Gotta catch them all!” mentality for them I’d say mounts would fit nicely into the same system. Even if riding them does nothing but say “Hey, look at me. I’m on a horse.” or for you Asurans (like myself) a genetically altered Moa bird of death, I’d like to have them.

I’d like to see mounts in GW2 for 50% travel reasons and 50% cosmetic. We have minipets to collect so why not hard to find mounts as well? I don’t think anything should change with waypoints since they will be the easy means of travel but then those of us looking for the hard to get gear, items, etc etc would have yet another thing to strive towards. Plus, all the cool armor designs ANet pushes us OCD players to find just for that cool look, why cant mounts serve that purpose? Maybe a +15% speed boost but mainly just to add to your characters impressive good looks.

We’re looking for all races, classes, and levels. Your age is not a problem.

Greetings,

[The Burning Eden] is looking for players on the Devona’s Rest server that are not only fans of PvP gameplay but are looking for an organized group to play with. I won’t promise you gold and riches, in a game without healers you will find yourself down or drowning often enough but know there will be people on that battlefield who have your back.

I can’t begin to discuss how annoying it is to watch a rag tag mob of random players running around unorganized and literally throwing themselves at organized zergs from other servers. Some of you don’t even need to be told as you’ve seen it first hand.

There are many guilds across all servers already dominating WvW through organized tactics and the PUGs don’t stand a chance. That’s why I came to this game knowing full well what I wanted, a dedicated guild of casual and hardcore players thirsty for siege warfare. We will dominate the borderlands through sheer brutality and tactics, leaving none alive in our wake.

The leadership of this guild has seen all types of PvP to be had, even the precursors to what we have before us in Guild Wars 2. Before you start thinking we’re all about saving the world we also not only participate in sPvP but we get involved in pretty much anything while still maintaining our warrior priorities.

We still need many active members to accomplish our goals and there is still plenty of room for all to grow within our well structured ranks. So please before thinking we’re just another guild trying to get who ever we can remember that the only true way to win a world war is through tactics and organization, not by the zerg of a mindless mob with people shouting at each other.

If you are of a like mind or like what you’ve heard you can find us in game, my name is Raine Akrune.8416, or you can visit our website at: theburningeden.guildlaunch.com

There is no age requirement though we are all adults. We have a ventrilo server for guild use and we use it heavily for PvE/PvP groups. Feel free to leave a post with any questions about us and I’ll reply in a timely manner.

Remember, we’re all in this together. Win or lose it’s on all of us.