You know what I want?
Posted 03-03-2009 at 01:17 PM by Satrina
A way to upgrade my trusty gryphon mount to 310% speed.
I don't collect mounts, and never have. My mounts tab has a swift white steed and a swift blue gryphon in it. It seems ridiculous to me to have a bag full of mounts. I don't care about the mount achievements. I really dislike the idea of having to get an ugly as hell proto-drake if I want the faster mount speed.
I'd really love it if instead of a new mount for every reward, we had a few options to choose from. A way to increase my gryphpn's speed would be a very welcome one.
Probably never happen, I suppose.
I don't collect mounts, and never have. My mounts tab has a swift white steed and a swift blue gryphon in it. It seems ridiculous to me to have a bag full of mounts. I don't care about the mount achievements. I really dislike the idea of having to get an ugly as hell proto-drake if I want the faster mount speed.
I'd really love it if instead of a new mount for every reward, we had a few options to choose from. A way to increase my gryphpn's speed would be a very welcome one.
Probably never happen, I suppose.
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It's not impossible to think that one of the 310% Speed mounts one day could be a Gryphon. How long will have have to wait is the question I suppose. (Or, is it this Gryphon in particular you're attached to?)
p.s. I love the Proto-drake look, but then I'm a cool Orc and you're not.Posted 03-03-2009 at 02:07 PM by veneretio 
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They could really put one mount that does like the Death Knight mount honestly.
The DK flyer upgrades it's speed depending on your riding skill. That'd be something to put in.Posted 03-03-2009 at 02:11 PM by Krenian 
- I also think the drakes are just awful looking, I'm not really a fan of the DK bone-chicken mounts either. More than anything I want a way to upgrade my Flight Form to 310%. I'd PvP to #1 spot if that were a reward. It's be worth it.
Posted 03-03-2009 at 02:28 PM by Petninja -
You could also translate this to skins on certain iconic items that we'll never see again because they are obsolete. In most heroic fantasy, which Wow endeavors to put the player in the middle of and make them the protagonist, said character usually has a favorite sword and trusty steed.
I understand the need to keep players playing by carrying the carrot out further but if there was a way to keep players in the rat race and striving for the next best thing but still able to keep the look and feel they are accustomed to......
If they can implement glyphs, they can do this. If you complete the necassary requirements to acquire a 310% mount, maybe you could trade it in for a BOP glyph...and Glyph your Griff. Or trade Last Laugh in for a glyph to put the identical stats on Thunderfury (take away the AoE effect if you like)
Eh, a pipe dream but fun to think about.Posted 03-03-2009 at 03:01 PM by Horacio -
i must say i like SOME of the proto draks, Black, twllight, and green. Those 3 looks os fantastic.
But, they arent anything i would sell my soul for. Mounts are mounts, not even Baron' are rare anymore.
The only reason people collect mounts is for the achivment.Posted 03-03-2009 at 03:15 PM by Pesko -
I'm frustrated that I'll have to get a handful of limited time only 310% mounts to get the 280% mount with the appearance I want, and spend bare minimum 8K+ gold on mounts and reputation.
QQ, blue dragonhawk, QQ.Posted 03-03-2009 at 04:16 PM by Alent - I'm with you Satrina. Most of those flyers to me look silly. The Regular old Drakes are to big and clumsy. Proto Drakes look like they just got off the short bus.
I bought the Cenarion War Hippogryph a ways back in TBC and been happy with it. I'll let all the dragon posers do their thing. I'm a popular tank for timed mount runs because I always pass on tourist stuff. I would roll on that awesome looking tiger that drops in ZG thoughPosted 03-03-2009 at 04:31 PM by Brucimus - It's funny how you can pick out all the alliance. These mounts may look silly on your small toons, but they look sooo epic for us Horde folk.
A nice compromise would definitely be a few mounts to choose from for some achievements, but then that may require some extra functionality to be injected into the achievement system.Posted 03-03-2009 at 04:51 PM by veneretio - My main is a druid so my care factor for things like Proto drakes and other forms of flying mounts is really minimal.
I enjoy collecting land mounts though and have fallen in love with the Mechnostrider. It hilarious to see a NE riding around on one of those things.Posted 03-03-2009 at 05:18 PM by VEEN -
I'm with Veen... My quest for a BG mechanostrider continues. As funny as it may be to see a NE riding one, I can't wait to see how my steel-wrapped Draenai looks. I have the ram from BGs and it's hillarious - something akin to a seven foot fat guy trying to drive a Mazda Miata. Really looking forward to my shiny robo-chicken.Posted 03-03-2009 at 05:41 PM by Azadar -
instead of a mount that drops, why not just a mount token. go to the mount vendor, turn in. baddabing baddaboom. I think it'd be pretty sexy. mount vendor can have several different tokens. say 1 for glory of the raider, 1 for twilight, etc etc.Posted 03-03-2009 at 06:18 PM by Kazeyonoma -
I always thought it would be interesting if you could gain a faction with your mount. Maybe faction is the wrong term though. The more faction you acquired the more things it could do. For example, move faster, carry a trunk for stuff, or even carry a vendor. Maybe like loyalty instead of faction or something. You could glyph your mount to be insta mount or carry a vendor position. That way your mount could be different from others and it would be applicable moderately inside of raid instances. Just food for thought.Posted 03-03-2009 at 09:03 PM by Khue - Yes, let's have something more grindeable...
How about feeding dailies for people that have one of those 22k (?) gold mammoths so the repair costs could be a little lower, or somehting silly like that...
I honestly have never noticed there was 280 and 310 speed though... But hey, I've been without fast flyers for nearly the whole of TBC and Wrath... Picking a mount will never be the same...
to Satrina: Awesome you still like the gryphon! If I my avatar wasn't a night elf (in hindsight I wanted a human but hey...) I'd be in the same boat - I love gryphons! Particularly the new armored white one...
AethelasPosted 03-04-2009 at 12:36 AM by Aethelas -
Gogo Arenadrake :PPosted 03-04-2009 at 12:45 AM by Edgar - Gotta disagree Vene, proto-drakes are terrible all the way around, and I have 2 cows... I still use the windrider on 2 of my 3 characters because all the other mounts are ugly as hell, excepting the bronze drake from CoT Strat, he doesn't look asterrible as the red one for some reason. Hell I'd love to get an allianceish gryphon, cause those are the best looking flying mounts in the game, which is pretty sad.
Posted 03-04-2009 at 03:38 AM by Aldragoriad - I also want the ability to name mounts. I wonder how many would immediately get named "Urmom"
Posted 03-04-2009 at 07:16 AM by Horacio - I wonder how many would pick the OTs girlfriends name...
Posted 03-04-2009 at 11:17 AM by Petninja - OTs have girlfriends!?
Posted 03-06-2009 at 04:38 PM by Shadevarr
