Why no mounts in gw2

Striped Jarin. Striped Tri-horn. Super Outlaw Raptor. Veiled Chameleon. Vital Geode. Wild Trihorn. Alloyed Irontail. Arctic Jerboa. Awakened Springer. Branded Springer. Brisban Brushtail. Caledon Short-Tail. Cascade Heeler. Cozy Wintersday Springer. Desert Lop. Elonian Jackalope. Exalted Ley Vaulter. Exo-Suit Springer. Infernal Horror.

Issnur Long Hair. Kourna Jackrabbit. Krytan Lop. Lucent Long Ear. Mad King Springer. Mad Realm Springer. Maguuma Jackrabbit. Painted Mesa. Primal Hare. Sargol Thunderer. Savannah Stripetail. Shiverpeaks Springer. Sinister Feline.

Spooky Springer. Spotted Springtail. Summit Wildhorn. Sun Temple Gecko. Tawny Hare. Timberland Badged. Windy Spot. Woodland Sprite. Alluring Devilfish. Arid Hammerhead. Awakened Skimmer. Banded Wave Fin. Branded Skimmer. Bright Ringfin. Cozy Wintersday Skimmer.

Dajkah Lantern. Dappled Reef Glaucus. Elonian Waverider. Exalted Sea Sentry. Exo-Suit Skimmer. Luminous Ray. Mad King Skimmer. Mad Realm Skimmer. Magnificent Hummingbird. Oasis Skate. Oceanic Broadtail. Oceanic Ray. Open Ocean Glaucus.

Primeval Skimmer. Primus Beta. River Moth Wing. Sand Souled. Shell Surfer. Shiverpeaks Skimmer. Southsun Torpedo. Spined Longtail. Spooky Skimmer. Spotted Orchid. Umbral Demon. Volcanic Ray. Alloyed Quicksilver. Awakened Jackal. Banded Mystic. Branded Jackal. Ceylon Cut. Cozy Wintersday Jackal. Thank you in advance! The only way to get access to mounts is with the Path of Fire expansion. It's the same thing with the glider, you need to own the Heart of Thorns expansion.

During Wintersday you can rent a Raptor for the race even if you don't own PoF, but that's about it. Note that one character has to be level 80 and start PoF story to get the first mount. The later mounta require map currency, and you need to rank up the Mastery related to the first mount a bit requiring mastery points and xp earned in PoF.

Not so much for the content as for gliding. It is a very difficult set of maps, but there are very interesting points in the story. Thus making it easier to level other new characters after your main. The game existed in a state without mounts for nearly half a decade or more.

In fact, most of the content in the game was created to be played without mounts of any sort. It's only until Path Of Fire did mounts and mount mastery become central to the PvE progression mechanics of the game. So that's why there hasn't been integration with mounts in the beginning of the game as the content isn't designed for it.

Mounts in GW2 are meant to be an endgame feature. And personally, I think mounts cheapen the element of exploration that is so central to GW2's design and gameplay in core maps for brand new players. Brand new players should ideally level up naturally and acclimate to the game as it was intended to be played without mounts until the PoF expansion.

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here. Buy Now. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Recommended Posts. The "sad" truth of WvW is that you need PoF to truly compete anyway. Its quite obvious that the mount is just another incentive to buy the game.

And honestly I think that is fine. GW f2p is just a taste of the game and HoT is very, very old now.

Not that its impossible to play it without either, but you do get pigeonholed in your choices. Personally I would prefer it if instead of renting mounts, they added multi-seat mounts. Warclaw should be able to take 1 passenger. PvP has its own unique system to provide an experience to new players and that is to instantly level all of your characters to 80 with everything unlocked allowing people to try the character before committing to it.

WvW could also follow a similar model WvW could be the place to come in with your committed level 80 character and then try glide rentals and mount rentals, maybe a token system of 10 each or X per level up to a certain point.

Just guessing here but that might encourage sales and provide renewable population on WvW servers. It honestly sounds like one of the best ideas I've heard in a while as it would also solve the OPs complaint and probably some others too. Even finishing the achievement to actually get the mount is going to be a chore without the mount..

Jumping skills and speed boost skills help a little, but not enough. That should be enough time for any players who are entirely new to GW2, but want to give a shot at WvW.

Many friends of mine want to get into WvW, but most of them give up in three days while they were trying to get to level 80's doing PvE. The game is full of powercreep to increase sales. The mount is no exception. Core players do have a limited experience in one or another way. And I think that's okay regarding the fact that I did have to pay only Euros for all the game content within 6 years. Nobody likes to work for free.

Nevertheless: they should rethink whether capturing a keep should be required as this can be a frustrating task for some players on certain servers.