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Am I the only one who really wants to ride the classic horse mount and finds it extremely weird we have no horse mount or skin?
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I do not want to ride a classic horse, and no i dont find it weird we dont have one. There are no horses in GW2(the game world, NOT the books i know they mention them there.). Now a dolyak maybe.
But what would it offer? What would be the point of having one? All the other mounts do something, what would a horse bring to the game?
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Could be a special skin for all I care.
And for which mount would it be a skin for, and how much would you be willing to pay for it? because theyd have to make entirely new animations for it, the 3d model, and having the character riding it.
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Raptor I guess, the leap makes sense for a galloping horse.
I'd pay the 2K a special skin costs regularly, like the bird skin.
They’d still have to make new animations and remove old animations. The raptor has several dog like animations that would need to be removed. In addition the raptor is 2 legged which probably makes a difference when adding a 4 legged skin to it
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It would be more than 2k due to the new animiations and such that theyd have to make that @Just a flesh wound.3589 mentioned.
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I'd accept a mount version of this: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini_Lunar_"Horse"
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Since the mounts have special animations and uses maybe ANet should add one or two more mount slots for other mounts, such as horses, that have no specific animations or uses. That way they could add mounts of many different types that don’t need to be a reskin of one of the current mounts and don’t have the special uses. They could have a mount slot for “other” 4 legged mounts and a mount slot for “other” 2 legged mounts.
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ANet might give it to you.
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A horse mount is pointless because it would make it the worst mount when compared to the other mounts. It can't leap long distances like the raptor, it can't jump high like the springer, it can't swim fast on water like the skimmer, it can't teleport like the jackal and it can't fly like the awesome griffon.
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Nope: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/37824/why-cant-we-have-horse-mounts
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Given Anet's track record for avoiding the typical content of other MMO's, I don't see a horse mount coming anytime in the future. I do see the possibility for cold weather animals, or mountain dwelling ones.
If you think balancing is only driven by performance and justified by comparisons to other classes then prepare to be educated:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/balance-updates-the-heralds-near-future-and-pvp-league-season-13/
I’m waiting for the raptor skin that looks like a Moa. That will be the day!
I'd love that, as well.
I love that GW2 doesnt have horses.
I hate to play a MMORPG that just does more of the same! GW2 mounts are so cool because they are unique
Theres "unoriginal" and then theres not even trying.... The reason you're getting so much push back, is because you're not even trying to put an interesting spin on the idea, and then further dismiss any desire for a creative touch. A high fantasy setting containing not only every major fantasy trope, but also subverts nearly all of them.... and you just stopped at "a Horse. Just a plain old regular horse".
Now you know what would get a lot of discussion going? Reskin the Jackel with the Dreamer's Unicorn. Lets go down the list.....
At this time, horses would no longer look normal in Tyria
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Oh it's this dead horse again.. XD personally I am fine with the current mounts and I find horse mount to be too generic..
Guild Wars may have no horses, but there were Kirin in Cantha (Guild Wars Factions) which look a bit horse-like.
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Kirin
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Jade_Torn_Kirin_(monk)
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Stone_Scale_Kirin
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Jade_Torn_Kirin_(mesmer)
Maybe a mount idea with a future Cantha-expansion? It would surely look great with a Sylvari riding it.
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I don't need horses as mounts to like GW2, but if it makes you guys happy shrugs
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It would be cool if they added a horse mount to Central Tyria mastery no matter which combo of the expansions you have. No abilities, just a simple mount with 50% movement.
Does it have a Necrid riding it?
Yes.. Yes it does :>
what if the horse mount has a speed ability, you can run allot faster for as long as your stamina is available.
This is not botw though
botw?
Zelda: breath of the wild.
Super agree with you. But the song only works if the Unicorn is properly Robot too.
That awesome creation is not a mount. It is a playable race!
If it's a generally normal shaped horse... then Raptor would be the right mechanics, but like you guys mentioned, they'd have to mess with dimenions and models etc.
I don't see why they couldn't use it on a Jackal, and if not a horse, then as some other kind of fantasy horse-like animal.
To be fair we do have horse shaped creatures in GW2. We have the Unicorn finisher and Centaurs, so to say that horses don't fit the GW world, isn't 100% accurate.
I agree with what @starlinvf.1358 wrote.
This game can use a healthy dose of "generic" these days. Putting too many different weird looking designs in the game that don't fit together nor fit the original design spirit of the game, only so kids would go "Cooooool!", isn't my understanding of good visual game design.
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Horses don't really fit into GW2 esthetics but neither do winged backpacks, so Anet will probably add horse skins eventually
???
They are mentioned in various NPC dialogue, can be seen on official GW2 art, are mentioned in the novel(s). How do horses not fit on a rural map like Queensdale?
Hopefully!
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somebody stole your idea, Asha. Can I call you like that?
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What´s a "horse"?
and they are most likely extinct
A horse as a Jackal skin, i don't see any problems there.
It's four legged, they don't need more animation changes than reforged Warhound and Shrine Wolf, maybe it would be a bit boring for some ppl but thats it.
I also like the Kirin idea.
Aren't the books canon. So that means horses exist. How about a unicorn. They are in the game as a wep and finisher. So let's ride them. I hope they fart rainbows.
One consideration though. They’ve either have to remove the ability to go through Sand Portals or change the lore so that both horses and the Sand Jackal can use Sand Portals.
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Horses are extinct, Charr charr grilled them all
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People told you a dozen times by now that they are not, and why. Stop insinsting on something that has been refuted already. Stop ignoring the facts.
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Have you ever seen living horse in GW or GW2?
I think Matthew Medina posted recently that game takes priority over books and inividual stories when setting the canon.
Valid point.
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Come to think of it, we've not even seen dead horses, have we? (Except for the ones being beaten here, ofc
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We actually did, necrid horseman in gw1. Orrian undead which never appeared in GW2.
kitten me, you're right!
At least they were called horsemen...
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Only a "horse", not a horse. There is a difference, but the Skritt will probably tell you otherwise.
But again: We can ride a peacock mount now. When they can add a peacock, they can add a horse. There just needs to be enough paying demand for it. I don't need one. Personally I don't see a reason to ride a horse when I can ride a griffon!
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Honestly, we really don't need a horse mount when most of us have already unlocked the super-convenient griffon anyway
Pegasus skin for Griffy?
It will look stupid. Griffon doesn't run like horse, it runs like a big cat. And skins don't change base mount animations.
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