The new expansion will determine my future with WoW, the new level cap already makes me ready to quit, but the new content and little things like world pvp sieges make me curious enough to stay with the game for now :)

I would like to have some cool mounts, I would like to have the ability to use those kaliri as mounts, ATTACKING mounts lol!

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LANDSQUID MOUNTS!
Oh man, that'd be uber boss.

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I'd like to see a boar mount :)

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Azerothian dragons.

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The Stalkers from Zangarmarsh are cool landmounts :)

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Gnome as mounts

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What I'd like to see is slightly different. I'd like to see "Rental Mounts".

This would primarily be for lower level characters (sub 40), although could be used for flying mounts too (possibly with zone limits set to ensure people don't "miss the story" - ie rent a flying mount in Hellfire Peninsula and thats the only place you can fly it).

The idea is that at certain townships you can go to a stable and "rent" a mount for a period of time. The cost should be enough so that people don't use them all the time, but affordable enough so that you use them when you need to (in a real world example: more expensive than the bus, but less expensive than owning a car).

The period of time you have the mount should be for an amount of rideable time, so for example you rent a mount for 1 hour, this means it stays in your bag for say 168 hours (7 days), or until you have ridden it for an hour. Once you have ridden it for an hour you can't rent another one for a 3 hour cooldown (to protect against misuse by twinks).

The speed of the rental mount should be as fast as a standard mount (60%), however actual time to mount should be 20-30% slower than an "owned" mount. The first time you rent a mount there should also be a training fee, but nowhere near the cost of the full mount training fee (and should be differentiated for that reason, ie rental training vs mount training - & you can't use rental training to buy a mount).

As there is a cost to using it, a cooldown between use, a set maximum amount of riding time as well as the limitations of mounts (ie can't mount in battle), it shouldn't negatively effect things like aspect of the cheetah, blinking or druid travel form.

What do you think?

Regards,
Shane.

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Moths, hummingbirds, dragonflies, boars, twinks.

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The rental mount idea is at least interesting.

What gameplay purpose would adding such a system serve? What balance issues do you see it causing? How expensive would it be to impliment?

(Obviously us players can't answer the third question.)

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RE: Rental Mounts:

1. What gameplay purpose would adding such a system serve?

I know from personal experience, as well as the feedback from many people starting to play WoW or who are casual gamers, the sheer amount of time it takes to get from one part of the world to another can be a drain and de-motivator. As Blizzard are already talking about implementing faster XP gain in an upcoming patch, rental mounts would allow the lower level characters to see more of the world faster, and with less frustration.

2. What balance issues do you see it causing?

I think I covered that as best I could in the last paragraph - as it is a service that costs money, has cooldowns and limitations etc, it shouldn't negatively impact or unbalance much if anything. The worst we'd face is veteran players looking down their noses at the new guard saying "Hah! Look at those upstart n00bs. We did it the hard way - it build character is say" or similar :)

Regards,
Shane.

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2 words. Bare cavalry.

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Rental mounts I wouldn't like, it would ruin the experience for when you hit 70.

As for a mount I would like to see? Normal dragons. Neherdrakes are more awesome than a normal dragon, but just the option would OWN.

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Well lets see here, we have Griffins and the Lion/scropion thingie as mounts... both of which were designed to look good with people riding them... and we have a nether ray... which doesn't. Why oh why did blizzard ignore the bat mounts from the undead? The time has already been spent making them look good while mounted... they would be perfect! Same goes for the Hyppogryphs.

It would also pwn if I could use my Red qiraji crystal outside of AQ40... I waited a month for that stupid thing to drop and he no longer gets to see the light of day... makes me very sad.

As for my own wish, prob... a giant hellhound.

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How about class specific flying mounts? Warlocks could get a demon ones, and rogues could get ones that are transparent like stealth.

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I agree, class specific mounts would be great. Variety and choice is nearly always a good thing.

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@ 14: Not transparent but camouflaged: chameleon mounts. :P

What about donkeys for priests? I have seen a donkey model somewhere in the game already, so it wouldn't be that much effort to implement that.

And shouldn't hunters be able to train anything they can tame to be a mount?

And I want my very own and exclusive white warpstalker mount. Nyah!

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I want an ox. And I want the character models to sit sideways on the ox mounts.

Mostly, I want to set the mount to "walk" and spout nonsensical aphorisms like I was Lao Tzu.

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@17 Haha, that would be awesome!

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Boar mounts. I'm surprised the Orcs don't ride them anyways, since they had pig farms in WC2.

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Two words : Barrens Girraffe

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