Aw, man, now you just made me mad again that Guild Wars 2 doesn’t have fishing. And while I’ve been curious to check this out, @stusser successfully crushed that curiosity by complaining about the mount grind. I’ve got three different mounts for all my characters to ride around in Guild Wars 2 and I didn’t have to play for months and months* to get them.
-Tom
* excepting, of course, the months and months I’ve played Guild Wars 2
Mr Chick, your mighty reviewer weight in the industry should allow you a free copy on Steam of the Summerset Collectors Edition, it comes with a free mount. :)
And the grind @stusser mentions isn’t the cost of the mount, but the cost to upgrade the mount to make it better.
I haven’t played for a couple of years, but I seem to recall that mounts really only mattered in PvP. If you’re questing/exploring, it’s a pain to mount/dismount every time you see a harvest node. You can get a skill early on that greatly increases your running speed, and on the pc you can probably get mods to easily move it to and from your skill bar.
Yeah, me too. The mounts are essential. Even if you don’t want to use it to greatly increase your cross-country movement, the extra 60 bag slots are crazy good.
All mods are at esoui.com, go look around and see what interests you. Essential ones I would say are SkyShards, LoreBooks, Lost Treasure, Easy Travel, Votan’s Minimap, Advanced Filters, and No Accidental Stealing. I would find playing the game annoying without them. Playing the console version without a minimap, without skyshards on the map? No thanks.
There are tons of mods out there like AUI/Azurah/FTC that make massive UI changes, I use those too, but they’re your personal preference.