trunks.5249 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 i do not see many griffon flyers in the skys so thought i would show a video of what these bad boys are capable of. maybe even inspire some of you to learn to fly. i know they have a learning curve but so worth it. hope to see more out there injoy "But griffon can't fly" - YouTube 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AusarViled.7106 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 In the grand scheme of players, not that many have the griffin. It costs 250 gold, most players wont see that in their life time if they log in once or twice a week. Knowing that GW2 is a casual mmo, i would guess around 15% of people have PoF and of those maybe 50% have the griffin. Knowing that people are mad at ArenaNet, people are leaving. So even less of them left. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungozen.2379 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Griffons are awesome, alongside Beetles they my favorite ways to travel. I don't really care if other players use them, that's their loss. Nothing like flying fast and free, on land, air......hmmm we need one for sea too. TurboSkimmie!!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr.5382 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 This thread tried to accomplish the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoni.7015 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 59 minutes ago, AusarViled.7106 said: In the grand scheme of players, not that many have the griffin. It costs 250 gold, most players wont see that in their life time if they log in once or twice a week. Knowing that GW2 is a casual mmo, i would guess around 15% of people have PoF and of those maybe 50% have the griffin. Knowing that people are mad at ArenaNet, people are leaving. So even less of them left. This is nonsense on so many levels 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanBB.4268 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, yoni.7015 said: This is nonsense on so many levels Quoted for truth. According to gw2efficiency, 86% of accounts have PoF and 75% have HoT, 5% are core with no expansions, and 2% are FTP. Numbers rounded for simplicity. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeTect.5918 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 I think the reason why most dont use it is that its useless, unless u climb up a 100000 kilometers high mountain. The climbing up takes long enough that its simply faster to just use other mounts. Yes you can be really fast with griffon, but u always have to climb up a mountain or something on most maps to use it nicely. Its easier to simply use roller beetle. Same speed but u dont have to climb. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AusarViled.7106 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 1 minute ago, DeanBB.4268 said: Quoted for truth. According to gw2efficiency, 86% of accounts have PoF and 75% have HoT, 5% are core with no expansions, and 2% are FTP. Numbers rounded for simplicity. There is no way that is true, because owning PoF does not mean you have a mount. This thread says that only 5%-10% of players have the griffin. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanBB.4268 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 I was only disputing your "15% of people have PoF." But thanks for linking a Reddit thread, that is certain proof of your numbers claim. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoni.7015 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, AusarViled.7106 said: There is no way that is true, because owning PoF does not mean you have a mount. This thread says that only 5%-10% of players have the griffin. The thread is 4 years old … 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AusarViled.7106 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Yep, i am not sure, i was just making a guess. I do not know if there is anything more updated. If i am wrong, i am happy to be proven wrong. Yes the thread is 4 years old, could not find anything newer. if you want to make a poll on reedit would be great to know 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokke.6239 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 (edited) 35 minutes ago, DeanBB.4268 said: Quoted for truth. According to gw2efficiency, 86% of accounts have PoF and 75% have HoT, 5% are core with no expansions, and 2% are FTP. Numbers rounded for simplicity. Don't you have to make/link your account for it to count? Doesn't seem like it would be very useful to determine how many people have expansions/Griffon then, since people signing up are much more likely to be people already owning the expansion and already being heavily invested into the game. F2P players and casuals are much less likely to bother looking up their efficiency. Edited February 4, 2022 by jokke.6239 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueJin.4127 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 While I love the griffon, there’s no denying that its fullest potential is only possible in niche situations; you need to start from really high and not make any stops in the middle (such as gathering). Since the skyscale already negates the springer, I’d love to see the griffon jump as high as the springer to make it a bit more globally useful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibson.4036 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 3 hours ago, trunks.5249 said: i do not see many griffon flyers in the skys Have you done the Drizzlewood Coast south meta? Griffon is the mount of choice off the paradrops to get to cache keepers. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuks.8241 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Well its not niche for me, I use it all the time. Skyscale is just a take off platform for my griffon. But if you like to be a slow poke, thats fine. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungozen.2379 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, AusarViled.7106 said: Yep, i am not sure, i was just making a guess. I do not know if there is anything more updated. If i am wrong, i am happy to be proven wrong. Yes the thread is 4 years old, could not find anything newer. if you want to make a poll on reedit would be great to know If you look at unlock statistics on gw2efficiency you can see that 47% or 170,000 players have the basic Griffon skin unlocked. 47% also have Beetle, but only 35% have Skyscale. The thought being the only way to get the base skin is by unlocking the mount. Stats - Unlock Statistics - gw2efficiency As always, usual acknowledgment that gw2efficiency is only a partial sample size of potentially more advanced players. You mileage may vary, but the info is interesting even if it is a slice. Same chart you can see 300k people have unlocked Raptor, although only 290k have unlocked Dune Rider mastery. So we can assume that 300k of the peopl,e on gw2e have bought PoF. Edited February 5, 2022 by Mungo Zen.9364 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorem.8104 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Mungo Zen.9364 said: Griffons are awesome, alongside Beetles they my favorite ways to travel. I don't really care if other players use them, that's their loss. Nothing like flying fast and free, on land, air......hmmm we need one for sea too. TurboSkimmie!!! Ya know, that'd be great. Some way to travel in or above water faster that requires good input or controls to work well like the beetle and Griffon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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