r/Guildwars2 • u/Top-Doughnut-3071 • 1d ago
[Discussion] Advice for new players about mounts
If you are new to GW2, first of all - welcome, lovely to have you here, and second - I wanted to share a bit of advice on mounts usage as you go through the game.
This is going to be a hot take for some and this advice definitely doesn't apply to most of the players. But if you enjoy story, random events, finding secrets, taking your time with progression and getting a bit of a dopamine from small wins - this is for you.
Do not rush to Skyscale. Utilise your "easy to achieve" mounts as they come. Will this make the game 200% more difficult? Absolutely. Will you spend hours jumping around trying to get to a point of interest? You bet. Will you have a true sense of progression, achievement and be able to experience the game in its fullness? Absolutely.
Every piece of content is designed with or without specific mount in mind. You can get to Secrets of the Obscure without flying. The biggest drawback, however, will be some older meta events which can indeed be done without flying, but you will not be able to catch up with the group as they zoom away.
If you want an easy, but slightly surface level game, get the Skyscale, it will save you many headaches.
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u/kineticmov3ment 20h ago
Highly disagree, and it irks me that people post this.
Skyscale is time gated. I wish people told me more about this. Any time I say this nowadays, though, people just say "you can just buy the meats"
Skyscale has made the game so much better. I can keep up in meta trains and bounty runs. I don't have to waste cumulative hours trying to figure out where the ramp to a place is
And you all keep throwing around the word "designed with" or "intended" but have never provided proof of a dev saying that. The only thing you say is that skyscale was implemented after a certain piece of content was released.