Horses!?!

Iknow this might make the game just like WoW but I think that you should be able to have a horse tht you can ride (but you must use a skill slot to be able to use it, just like a running skill) and when your not riding it, it runs along side you. Also if you were to die your horse ran back to the nearest outpost, just like they do in real life (they run home if you fall off).

Any thoughts please post!

Pick a character.
Walk around the world.
Have you seen a giraffe? Or a zebra? Or a donkey? Or a sheep?
There are only 'cow-like' creatures in Tyria.

We already have Devourers and Junundu.
Who the hell wants a Hourse when you can mount a Siege Devourer?

Mounting Junundu Wurms and Siege Devourer is the best mode for transportation.

Siege Turtles are also good, but only if you're a pirate.

Plus, we don't need Mounts for GW1. GW2 we might, but only if the Asuran Gate network is lacking...

Hmmm good point. I never noticed that. Might have something to do with the fact that a horse is one of the most difficult animals to animate (since its four legs move independent of each other, its much tricker to animate the movement of a horse-like creature then other 4 legged animals).

ive done horse animations before, the problem with horses is it has several running speeds like the basic walk, trot, canter and gallop and each one is a different run pattern.

imo, horses don't fit too well in the GW universe.. its too...realistic.

If you want a galloping mount...i have idea for mounting on giant elks...........

Just hop on Zhed.

The devourer's 6 legs each move in their own way.

And Zhed and all centaur have Horse legs (The ONLY horse-like representation in the whole GW universe, XD).

But again, a mount that is just meant to ride and go to places have no sense in GW. Mounts in GW must be like the Junundu and the Devourer, and have some use in battle.
Horses would be just monster feed.

/notsigned

In WoW, there is actually a point to mounts. You need them to travel round the world quickly. Well, not need, but they're useful. With map travel, whats the point? The only use for mounts is for special skills like in the Siege Devourer.

Maybe those of us who can't mount a Siege Devourer would like that.

Or maybe they could be ridden into battle for a new proffesion i.e. Battlelord or sumfin....

ROFL fell from chair from that comment.

I think GW1 should stay like it is now and these ideas go for GW2.

- Ganni

We have teleportation between towns, horse is old-school

/notsigned
think how many people will be doing runs if all you do is use a skill and run laods faster for a large amount of time.

Yeah. Great idea you have there.

noticed any Centaurs?

Zhed <3's being on bottom

i think horses is an awsome idea, not because it makes it easier to get around or all that crap, just cause itd be bloody awsome to charge into battle on a war horse, admit the practicalities are limited especialy in Gw 1 but in Gw 2 this would be a fun idea that im sure they could figure out

/signed

Thats exactly what I was thinking of, a battlehorse is just so awsome and even better if you could buy armour for it

lol, this sentence is somewaht of plain stupid ...

but black bears, polar bears, lions, mountain eagles and any other ingame real animals are not

"TOO REALISTIC"


come on, thats a bad joke -.- horses would also fit into the game, the problem is only that people imagine with horses a too realistic timeage for GW, and that there exist in the world of GW still creatures which can also be seen/used as mounts, which are fantasy creatures and fantasy creatures simple have more "style" as mounts, then simple horses.
When you would have to choose between 3 different possible mounts, for example:

- Horse
- Gryphon
- Dragon

I can tell you for sure, in percentage the result would be this, in kind of how much took which mount:

-Horse > ~5%
-Gryphon > ~15%
-Dragon > ~80%

Would we even take a 4th mount into it, it would looks for sure like this:

-Horse > ~1%
-Gryphon > ~12%
-Any Colored Moa > ~17%
-Dragon > ~70%


However, I'm theoretically for them, but when hopefully mounts come in GW2 and under them Prestige Mounts too like Dragons (when the class Dragoon will come, he needs then none extra mount anymore , unless those races which ride on dragon types that can't fly) i see no future in Horses, because horses are then simple too boring and useless - simple, why should a take a Horse, when I can have a prestige Mount Dragon, with that I can fly then from town to town and this then in a wonderful persistent world look, flying really from point to point and not by stupid boring map travels, where the game has then only to load some files.
When a fly with a dragon around in a 3D world, i want to enjoy my flight and see something of the world in that I fly (this is the part, where people surely will cry now for WoW /sigh ) .... thats something i would really expect of GW 2 ...no boring map travels anymore, when making it quick, there should be other ways like the Asura "Star Gates" which hopefully have then in GW2 a similar animation when opening the wurmholes, that then such a nice energyblast appears and that those gates get a little tower in their near, where the player has to give in coordinates for the wished travel goal and that the gate needs then some seconds for opening the connection, not just only simple boring running in and then loading again only ....

i want so see a little animation then, how it feels to get warped by those gates, naturally all activateable/deativateable by menu, or just stoppable like the video scenes per button click on "overspring", or people buy then warp runestones and warp with them automatically there, where you want to be, something similar like in the gothic games.
or players can simple learn teleport magic as a new core spell which any class can use. This would be nice ways for players that simple won#t take fr them the little time to travel around, but want to be everywhere in some seconds, as people do in GW1 per map traveling oO

but traveling trough buyable warp runestones or by teleport magic has simple more style and the players needs then not to open ever the whole map for traveling, just only the item menu, click twice the warp runestone item, choose place where to warp too and warp ....like in gothic games .... those stones could be used then to travel to towns and outposts that u#ve traveld at least once. there are really so much things anet can learn from offline games ...sigh

^^ Sigh at the first part of the above post.

Doesn't change the fact that pretty much anybody in computer or cartoon animation will tell you that horses are difficult to do.

It's [wiki]Burning Speed[/wiki] on a horse!

How about you stop being cheap and go buy WoW.

Because WoW is a bad game lol

I can see what you mean with the horse and mabye going into battle on the back of one would be fun. However I see this as more an option for lower level Guild Wars 2

Thats a good thought, thanks guys

For many reasons:
1. Crap Graphics
2. No storyline
3.Crap PvP system
4.Costs about £90 a year just to play (when GW is so much better and free )
5.I dont need to say anymore

ummm I'd rather mount Jora.

They should be only for rangers though because they are the animal charmers, or there should be another profession completely like horse archers or something like that, and at the beginning when you design your character you should be able to design your horse.

well, since it is hard to do, it will just prove that GW has the best programmers, that should be motivation for them.

usually you see a swordsman or spearman on a horse..

and necros, cus thats already in the game, with Necrid Horseman

I would not call that bony thing a 'horse'. Horses do not have horns and pointed teeth. It's called 'horseman' becoase it's 'riding', not because it rides a horse.

They'd have to make a class around the idea. A type of warrior that fights with his mount, and the mount idea would be very similar to that of a pet.

Though on that, there would have to be a few points to note about the implementation:

1) I would say the new class should have the very same 'tame animal' skill as the ranger (make it attributeless and shared amongst the two professions).
2) You can have only one pet or one mount, not both.
3) Only certain 'pets' could be called 'mountable', that is to say that this class could mount it (you could use current pets too.. mounting a bear would rock).
4) A mount has two separate modes of play: normal (like pets) and mounted.
5) Mount cannot attack in 'mounted' mode.
6) The new class would have an attribute devoted to the mount, and it will NOT be a 'beast mastery' clone. The abilities pertaining to this attribute will be modes of attack for the player ONLY in mount mode.
7) Player can dismount at any time.
8) Damage will still be taken in full by player by default (not distributed), though abilities and stances that redirect damage to the mount will be made.
9) A mounted player does not move any faster than a normal player, though there will be lots of skills giving speed bonuses (think sprint with bonuses to attack)

With these 9 rules, I think it could be doable.

thats what happened to all the horses. You see what the story line doesnt tell you is the Orr was also the prime horseflesh peddler in all the lands. When The Lich sank Orr the magical backlash killed all the horses, gave them bad teeth and horns and now only the necrid horsemen can ride them. But I think a necro/war should be able to KD the rider and steal the pimp horse.

for the OP

/notsigned for GW1 no point as everyone said map travel is easy. Also charging in to battle on horse is cool, but have u ever seen the movies where a spearman (paragon) sticks his spear in the dirt and puts the point in the horse. bad news for mr ed and his buddy. Plus would there be "Raise Mount" when Mr Ed did die?

~the rat~

Mounts would be a great addition to GW2 and would be extremly fun (isnt that the whole point) and these mounts would also be great fun to use in the mists (pvp worlds) would mind being a dragon/pheonix rider fighting in the air against another spaudron of riders. i think all proffessions should be able to get mounts as well, and leveling mounts wouldnt be a bad idea.

/signed on mounts for GW2

....

If you guys want WoW so much then go buy it.
Please

/notsigned

It would be fun to have an elite PvE skill that summoned a mount for you.

Junundu vs. Frostmaw = WIN.

Sometimes I wonder why people play some games.

Mounts have zero (0) purpose in GW. They don't make sense for travelling, they are incompatible with combat mechanic, and due to world partitioning, they cannot be paraded around as trophies.

It makes as much sense as saying it would be cool if there were HUD display for missile launchers, since it works so great in combat flight simulations.

But worst of all - such arguments get then slammed against Anet, claiming they ignore ideas.

There are viable ideas, good, but inviable ideas, poor ideas, bricks and oranges. Just like the last two don't fit into this post, neither do mounts in GW.

Dark and Light has all this: Endless world, mounts, and nothing but travel.

Ox in Cantha, too.

forget all this horse nonsense, if we're getting mounts why don't we have a catapult fly us places instead? That would be more interesting to watch (not to mention the fact that they'd have to have the character scream like a 4 year old while flying).

while there may not be any live horses in Tyria, there are certainly more species than bovine.

I have noticed quite a few

there are bears, being of the Ursidae family
Wolves fromt he dog family
Lynx and Stalker from the cat family
Moa Bird and Strider from the Dinornithidae family
Warhogs from the pig family

there are numerous others throughout.

Some are not actual creatures in real life, so to discount the necrid horsemans mount as beign a horse is not fair. Its obviously meant to represent a horse and must have come from some living creature we haven't been privy to as of yet.

As in our own medieval history horse are probably extremely expensive and rare animals, so we wouldn't see many around