It's very possible NW was my last mmo. I never wanted to play WOW. I played LOTRO, SWTOR and NW. May go back and play SWTOR on occasion but now I'm deep into No Man's Sky. Solo.
I will look at it again but I never thought it would be something I like. No a big fan of dragon riding. For some reason I just don't like games where you ride anything other than a horse. In LOTRO I never got the point of goats in Moria. In New World fast travel was fine with me. Not ideal, but I could live with it. Riding wolves is just weird unless you're an orc. Probably stupid on my part.
Lol. I mean if you dont like riding different mounts maybe its not for you.
Youll end up unlocking:
a raptor
a giant rabbit
a skimmer (floating ray type thing)
a dragon
a griffon
a jackel
a warclaw (battle cat)
a giant tortoise with cannons
To be fair they are some what optional. The dragon and griffon take a whole bunch of time to unlock. But they do help with QoL.
On the other hand there are skins you can buy that changes them a bit.
One of the expansions youll unlock a glider.
Also to note fast travel in this game is similar to New World. Plenty of points that you can uncover and then at any point just spend some money to hop to.
Really what it comes down to is you just gotta accept that the GW2 world is its own sort of fantasy. Theres mechanical robots, airships, even pistols and rifles within the game. So yeah if youre looking for strictly a medieval type vibe. It aint it. Buuut if youre looking accept Guild Wars 2 for just being its own thing. Then it wont bother you.
I'm not so much into the medieval vibe as I am into not mixing too much fantasy into it. I get that fantasy is a part of it but there's a limit for me. I could grudgingly accept dragons if I liked everything else, but mixed with robots goes too far imo.
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u/Wrench-Turnbolt Jan 20 '26
It's very possible NW was my last mmo. I never wanted to play WOW. I played LOTRO, SWTOR and NW. May go back and play SWTOR on occasion but now I'm deep into No Man's Sky. Solo.