Mounts mean the death of roaming

Now everyone's gonna have a way to just speed past players and skip encounters altogether. Because the less PvP there is in a PvP gamemode, the better, right?

Thank you Anet for absolutely destroying a part of your game many of us enjoyed since 2012 <3

I'm really starting to believe that they are tactically doing stuff like this then the WvW community or what's left of it will quit and they can shut the game mode down. Why else would they be so arrogant?.

So sad.

so when you flip a camp and cannot mount, you will run past the comming defender ?

yeah it might reduce abit the ones that just run around looking for a cheap gank, but hey are they even playing WvW ?

Lets wait to see how the mount is implemented before stating that roaming is dead. It may very well be, but we don't know it yet. For all we know, it may improve roaming. None of us (other than alpha testers who can't say anything) know how its implemented.

My hope is that it would take ~20 supply to deploy, ample time to set up, and have the engage ability make you lose your mount when using it, wasting all supply. This whole thing worries me a lot.

Going to be a lot more Necros roaming that's for sure.

If the mount's speed has anything higher than base swiftness, roaming is dead.

If the mount's engage skill does damage or CC to a player, roaming is dead.

Imagine running away from the 10 zerglings who were called to defend north camp, as fast as your little feet can take you, and you can't mount up because you're in combat. Sometimes, you could get away because of crafty teleports or terrain advantage to ultimately get out of combat and WP. But now you can't. Because there are 5 more people who spawned out of combat. And now they're chasing you with a mount.

@"Pterikdactyl.7630" said:My hope is that it would take ~20 supply to deploy, ample time to set up, and have the engage ability make you lose your mount when using it, wasting all supply. This whole thing worries me a lot.

I’m also sure there will be traps to dismount people much like siege.

This event will be a roamers dream. ALOT of new players to farm while the dont have the Mount unlocked.

roaming has been dead for years already so too late

It really depends how they implement it. if its a siege weapon that requires like 200 supply or it is a tactic like the duneroller i dont really mind

Not trying to fight you to be honest. Guaranteed 90% of "roaming" is killing group players who are ineffective alone while on the way back to their group shrug Such sport, much wow.

@"Sniper.5961" said:It really depends how they implement it. if its a siege weapon that requires like 200 supply or it is a tactic like the duneroller i dont really mind

It says they are doing weeklong wxp to help you "saddle up" which sounds like it is tied to rank/mastery.

Roaming snot dead,now everyone’s a Roamer lol

@DemonSeed.3528 said:

@"Sniper.5961" said:It really depends how they implement it. if its a siege weapon that requires like 200 supply or it is a tactic like the duneroller i dont really mind

yes well thats bad could still be a mastery like for every other siege weapon but i doubt it

This mount is good for roaming, unless you play thief. Which I do. Huge indirect thief nerf. But whatever.

Or it will make thief jobs easier. Don't know yet.

Mounts mean the death of roamingYou might want to wait to see what the mounts can actually do. What if they do incredible damage vs siege and nothing to players? What if they are speedy near a commander tag and slower than molasses roaming? What if it makes roaming easier by speeding up camp clearance?

I'm sure the Warclaw is going to disrupt the status quo, which is what it's meant to do. I think it's premature to speculate about what the long term impact is going to be.

@"ventusthunder.5067" said:If the mount's speed has anything higher than base swiftness, roaming is dead.

If the mount's engage skill does damage or CC to a player, roaming is dead.

Imagine running away from the 10 zerglings who were called to defend north camp, as fast as your little feet can take you, and you can't mount up because you're in combat. Sometimes, you could get away because of crafty teleports or terrain advantage to ultimately get out of combat and WP. But now you can't. Because there are 5 more people who spawned out of combat. And now they're chasing you with a mount.

I occasionally go back to WvW from sPvP for a bit of nostalgia and a chance to play with old WvW friends. I totally agree with you Meri, any class that can't reliably stealth for long periods to disengage is essentially deterred from solo or small group roaming. Say bye bye to all your somewhat weak, fun, off-meta builds as well. Like roaming with FA ele because it's fun? No stealth, only one teleport? Rip.

Roaming died years ago.

@IronmanBlogg.3458 said:

@"ventusthunder.5067" said:If the mount's speed has anything higher than base swiftness, roaming is dead.

If the mount's engage skill does damage or CC to a player, roaming is dead.

Imagine running away from the 10 zerglings who were called to defend north camp, as fast as your little feet can take you, and you can't mount up because you're in combat. Sometimes, you could get away because of crafty teleports or terrain advantage to ultimately get out of combat and WP. But now you can't. Because there are 5 more people who spawned out of combat. And now they're chasing you with a mount.

Lol. Try solo roaming with a necro. No teleport to speak of (wurm for the win...er...loss), no way to stealth (I mean, there is a Rune we can wear...but seriously). No speed boost that serves any real purpose.

@Blockhead Magee.3092 said:Lets wait to see how the mount is implemented before stating that roaming is dead. It may very well be, but we don't know it yet. For all we know, it may improve roaming. None of us (other than alpha testers who can't say anything) know how its implemented.

Pretty much this. Deadeye, Soulbeast and Mirage killed roaming way more than the mount could ever do.

Last time I went roaming I spent 12 solid minutes just running around trying to find someone to fight.I lost the fight, wp'd then walked for another 15 minutes just to find no one, no one at all.

Roaming has been dead for a while now.I rather see Anet doing something and screwing up than doing nothing at all.

Geez, I wonder why WvW players have such a cry baby reputation?lol.

It's easy as heck to get dismounted in PvE, people trotting by on this big mount are gonna be easy pickings.

Anet servers can't even handle zergs with minis but ya lets go mounts.... you already get skill lag in zerg fights with super high internet speed on a top pc<--(its not YOUR PC its their servers)... sooooo disappointed! Thanks for not caring about the WvW player base Anet! You know they cancelled the announcement last week because of the mount backlash in forums, lied about snow affecting the announcement while playing the game, pretty pathetic! Only updates they do are geared towards making them money. Smh... go ahead erase the comment anet.

@Vyrulisse.1246 said:It's easy as heck to get dismounted in PvE, people trotting by on this big mount are gonna be easy pickings.

In the trailer you can see the mount breaking a gate. If one hit or two kills the mount, it's useless for siege. It has to be tanky.