THE WARCLAW - Announcement

[Sarrs.4831]

Maybe I'm just a roamer scrub but idk, I like it. Vehicles and mounts are more fun than stationary siege.

[felincyriac.5981]

w8 it has a combat ability too?

[Blackarps.1974]

April fools! looks at calendar Oh no......

[Hymh.3245]

Hi, XD! Bye.

[Blocki.4931]

@Stand The Wall.6987 said:this is actually pretty funny.

The funniest thing to me is how obvious this makes it that wvw is full of gatekeeping elitists xD the irony.

[funassistant.6589]

@felincyriac.5981 said:w8 it has a combat ability too?

Likely a ram skill and an engage/dismount skillno clue what the special action will be

[blackgamma.1809]

Man, i wanted so many other things before a this unnecessary mount. like gee i dunno.

a stable wvw server to use it on?

out of all the issues in wvw they need to fix and address. why did they waste time, money and effort into a mount of all things.wvw is not gonna be a good game mode anytime soon

[DemonSeed.3528]

Non-pof's won't have access to them either I bet, like how gliding is with non-hot's.

[Bloodstealer.5978]

@funassistant.6589 said:

@"eldrjth.7384" said:Well as someone who rarely plays WvW it seems like good news to me: I hate having to return to the battle after dying on foot which can take 5+min sometimes. I need to hear some arguments on why this is bad. Maybe bad for small group roamers? but doesnt it allow for you to take camps faster too? That thing looked liked it moved fast making it not necessary to have +movespeed/swiftness/movement skills when ooc but that could just be the video. Yeah there will prob be mount skins for this for sure hehe, I hope its not exclusive to WvW either tbh.

Off the top of my head,+More input lag+More FPS drops+No chance of attacking an objective while outnumbered, cos defenders can "go fast lul vroom vroom warclaw xdddd"+LaAaAg

But we can use chairs in WvW now?hype?

Chairs will be the next "must have" in WvW cos ya know they are so not wanted.. that seems to be the way this all works - at least enough to keep players logging in, in the hope WvW finally does get that update of the promise land.

[SuperDave.6152]

RIP for those who like to roam/havoc. #zerglife

[Jeknar.6184]

I am not pleased

[desu.2514]

right now all the pve players screaming yay I can synthesize faster. only reason this would be introduced, purely toxic idea, along with the glider that someone above said turned out to be a good idea?!? fyi its no and it makes many places of the map down right annoying to fight on due to enemy or friendlies just jumping off cliffs to glide away to safety instead of dying for there mistakes or just paying no attention to the map routes. no they make a door destroying mount now because I guess building siege requires to many brain cells apparently

[Jski.6180]

Anet DO NOT DO THIS. This is the worst thing to add to wvw. You will kill your game mood.

[Stand The Wall.6987]

one can always hope dismounting takes a full second which would make ganking easier.

[Grim West.3194]

One thing is certain. WvW players will cry about any change.

[StrawHat.2639]

Put the Warclaw behind a 5krank WvW barrier ;P LoL

[Traveller.7496]

It's sort of incredible how out of touch ANet is about WvW.

[Noctifera.3746]

we need balance....we need news about alliances..............here take a mount

[reddie.5861]

wow, this might be the last nail for me... got my thief mobility nerfed to ground to be almost equal to rest of chars, np..and now lets add shitty "warclaw" which will just make people storm from 1 thing to another yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa amazing just what we needed..

ill try it but i guess im done.

[Adzekul.3104]

The art looks cool enough; hopefully this is not a rip-off of the 2000 gem manticore skin for the griffon (the sounds in the video seemed disturbingly familiar). Functionality and balance remain to be evaluated. If it works well, fair enough. If it doesn't, expect a public relations fiasco that will irrevocably damage the game mode. In summary, this represents a very high risk, low reward scenario for a project manager. Good luck with it. Truly. :-)

I remain, however, firmly in the "I am not convinced we need this" camp. Convince me, Arenanet. Please.

In my opinion, since the dev resource for WvW is so frustratingly minimal, ANY resource NOT spent on all of the long-standing problems:1) addressing performance/lag issues2) speeding up the (successful) implementation of Alliances (and the assumed impact on population imbalance, although this could be a separate point on its own).3) addressing the problem of night-capping

... is a waste of extremely limited resource. And very frustrating to witness this as a dedicated WvW player.

Convince me, Arenanet, that this is going to increase the player base, and the fun in WvW. Make your Marketing people earn their salaries as you launch this.

[Megastorm.6219]

It looks like it might be like the Charr car in WvW but faster and more fun. I'm looking forward to checking this out on one of my alts named He-Man.

[Luranni.9470]

@sarkysek.1085 said:First, I think it's pretty cool! And second, the people here who are instantly hating on it should at least save their judgement for after they see it in-game and try it :)

Wouldn't it be handy to have some form of test server and feedback process for this sort of thing? gasp :P

[Zania.8461]

The mount will either be stupidly overpowered, or useless depending on how the penalties for summoning and being dismounted will be implemented. Either way this will not add to the balance in WvW. Be prepared for PvE player swarming the WvW and queuing all the maps for a week. One time I almost feel bad for the stacked servers.

[greyseer.1806]

So much broken with WvW and anet spends time figuring out how to get mounts in WvW? Feels like they are trying to kill off WvW, not do anything to improve it.

[Delirious.3108]

Thank you anet, all we needed. To completely give up about the game.