For mounts (including flying mounts), one needs the Path Of Fire expansion. There should be guides on how to exactly get the griffon (flying mount 1) online, but a definite requirement is playing through the Path of Fire expansion story, searching some items strewn across all its maps, and investing about 250 gold in segments of 25 gold each.
1 - you can get to Lion's Arch pretty easily from a portal or just travelling.2 - once there, launch the PoF storyline and get your mount.3 - once you have a raptor, running around to get WPs etc. will be a breeze. OR, just use your lvl 80 as if it were lvl 1. Since you get scaled to the map anyway it's just like playing a new toon on easy mode.I cannot afford any expansions, and I want to play WvW, which is one of my all time favorite game modes. I cannot keep up to my group without a mount. This game is now unplayable for me. This is a very disappointing feature that has been added. Please make it so that people without expansions can use or "rent" a mount only in WvW. It is a game
Expansions, short for expansion packs, are paid content upgrades for Guild Wars 2. They introduce new content exclusive to them, including story chapters, explorable zones, masteries, mounts, elite specializations, raids, and strike missions. They can be purchased as standalone products without needing to own the previous installments to
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