Mounts pointless now?

[Thornwolf.9721]

100% Worthless, they might as well of removed the mount. Territories being owned means nothing once so ever so might as well remove that too; Seems to me that they are aiming to actually go for the "Empty field" desire people have been asking for. Warclaw is worthless, why bother with it when I can give myself swiftness and move at the same speed regardless of elevation or stairs? (They get really slow if its not a flat surface, was that way before and is worse now.)

[Kamsin.8541]

@DragonSlayer.1087 said:They should have kept the speed buff in territories and added the debuff when you get hit and puts you ‘in combat”.

+1

[Bristingr.5034]

Shrine Buff speed is now faster than Mount Speed again. Let that sink in. It's now faster to get around on RBL on foot than by mount with the buff.

Great Patch Anet. 5/7.

[DemonSeed.3528]

That means we don't need mounts :P :+1:

[lare.5129]

mostly yes. If someone another have it. If no one have - it is fail.

[Tungsten Monarch.6058]

@XenesisII.1540 said:Man, some of you people sound really desperate just to score a kill, like to the point you just want people off mounts, standing still afk waiting for you to come kill them. If you can't catch someone go look for something else, there's plenty of targets in wvw, cripes.

THIS...is very well said.

[Gop.8713]

@Bristingr.5034 said:Shrine Buff speed is now faster than Mount Speed again. Let that sink in. It's now faster to get around on RBL on foot than by mount with the buff.

Great Patch Anet. 5/7.

If true, this would help explain why I so easily evaded my pursuers in my example. Idr if I had the shrine buff, but I likely did . . .

[Infusion.7149]

@aspirine.6852 said:If the mount stomp still works it is not useless unfortunately.

It does more damage than some rangers' worldly impact even if not downed.

[anduriell.6280]

also mounted you still full faster than swiftness (just for a bit). So it is worth it yet.

[Kylden Ar.3724]

@Teon.5168 said:

@God.2708 said:

@Teon.5168 said:

@God.2708 said:

@Teon.5168 said:Besides the coolness factor, of course.

With the speed nerf to mounts, I can now stick with mounted players when running signet of the hunt on my ranger. I actually went out and tested this tonight, just to see how bad the mount speed nerf was. I have a mount, but I brought up signet of the hunt after taking a camp with a bunch of peeps to see how close I could stay to them. After taking the camp, a few peeps jumped on their mounts and took off, and I was glued to their tails for quite some time. Sure, they can use their jump ability to leap further ahead, but then I use swoop to do the same.

So what is the point of the mount, now? And I am not the only class that has speed abilities.

This just indicates to me how completely clueless Anet is as to BASIC abilities that classes have access to. What's next? Nerfing signet of the hunt and other class speed abilities?

Please correct me if I am missing something here. Seems like a very dumb and clueless nerf to the mount's speed.

My mind is just boggled as to the ignorance of classes and their basic abilities with this one. Or maybe the devs just didn't even consider this, which is even more mind boggling.

Again, please enlighten me if I am wrong on this. Like I said, I tested it tonight.

You do realize they made it so you move just as fast as mounts when around people with mounts and the mastery, correct? Your signet of the hunt had nothing to do with it. Working as intended.

If you want to know what is the point of mounting up yourself know instead of just running alongside someone mounted. Extra HP and evades.

Was that in this current patch? A few weeks back, I was not able to stick with a group on mounts when I was running signet of the hunt.I have been known to miss previous patch notes before, so thanks for the heads up. :)

And yea, on the evades and HP....knew that.That's why I asked for clarification, as I regularly miss notes here and there.

Specifically this under the general section near the very top of the notes:

Warclaw Mastery tier 2 has been reworked:

It no longer grants the warclaw increased movement speed in allied territories.While mounted, it will periodically grant nearby unmounted allies an effect that enables them to run at warclaw speed. This effect will be removed when they stray too far from mounted allies or upon entering combat.

Thanks!!! I appreciate the clarification. Makes sense that it is at the top of the notes, as I usually immediately scroll down to the class info. Obviously, I need to pay a bit more attention to the entire body of the notes before going off on some misinformed rant. :)

I caught that in the notes and was like, "Ah, ANet caved to the Free to Play whiners in WvW at last."

[ArchonWing.9480]

I bet the people who say the mount is useless are the first ones to hop on it at any sign of danger.

At least I am willing to admit to doing it every now and then. Also mounts are useless vs stairs. Stairs OP.