Mounts (horses, camels, wolves, tigers, bears)

Seeing people sprint around in full plate armor always made me laugh. I mean seriously, running on foot in full platemail? WTF? Did the horse die?

Where are the horses and other riding animals?

I mean if they made pets, why not mounts?

Reasons for getting mounts:

Faster traveling during quests

Increased level of tactics in battles i.e. dismounting to fight, forcefully dismounting

Having another thing to trade and customize your character with, plus make armor for

The sheer coolness factor of actually charging down your opponents or shooting your bow from a galloping horse like a Mongol

I imagine the mount will have its own health bar and will be separately targetable. Being dismounted would be much like having your pet die, your skills recharge, also you loose health and are dazed.

Been discussed a million times. Please use the search.

Agreed on the search thing.

Something to keep in mind: GuildWars is not an MMORPG. It is an action "shooter" with some RPG elements thrown in so it is not beyond the realm of possibility for players to run in full plate armor. Chacacters do that on every FPS game out there.

Yeah, been telling people GW is FPS and noone believes

If it were understood as FPS, perhaps half of my gaming clan would play it now

Actually, it's more like real time strategy to me...

Not really, I could go away for age and come back to same universe where I left. Although you collect stuffs for your weapons/armor/skills/dye, etc. it is not critical to collect it faster than the next guy.

hav a guy on a camel with a crossbow or lance. that guy in pre-sear would rock. he's like a bandit. his crossbow knocks u down.

hm... i like the idea

but a few suggestions only ranger and warrior should b able 2 ride a mount and a ranger should b able 2 ride all of the possable pets wile warriors should b able 2 ride only a horse

and a ranger should only b able 2 ride the pet at lvl 20

i think a warrior should be able to ride an ant ...

LOL you guys crack me up.

Mounts aren't going to happen, I can almost guarantee it....though who'd have thought that UT2004 would implement driveable vehicles?

An even better idea would to be able to ride a magical pull-out sofa. It's a special magic sofa. It opens up for magic, lazy boys. And angels come out feed you grapes and sing to you while you sleep, and it flies around the room, granting wishes to boys who are stupid.

Can I have one please?

It doesn't sound all that great. It doesn't even have lasers.