Patch 4.2 Mounts Preview, Comics

I love how the horde wolf has some skulls on it but the ally horse has freaking actual heads on it! (i will hate to see it have the same heads on both sides, but whatever)

Originally Posted by Vasz

So the Flameward Hippogryph is a reward for just completing all the firelands quests? How hard is it to do that, ive not been on PTR.

it takes a long time actually, to first open the the firelands, u need 5 days (4 tokens per day and need total of 20) then you have to help each faction which has ultimately 125 each? and there's 3 of them...but there are also more dailies so I'm not sure how much tokens you can get...since they are reframing this from the argent tournament, I say quite a while. It shouldn't be that easy

And they wonder why so many people are quitting.... same model, different skin. Terrible

Originally Posted by VitesseEOD

Yeah, making the best things in the game reasonably hard to obtain is a poor move in an MMO...

I'm pretty sure he was implying that Gladiators are getting shafted this season in comparison, and you're implying that hitting Gladiator ratings isn't equally as difficult (or much more difficult) as what would be the tasks of obtaining a "raid mount" and/or you're misunderstanding his statement in a different fashion.

I want the green one! Why won't there be the green one Firehawk, of course.

Originally Posted by Racetrack

How about new models instead of 30 reskins of the same mount over the last 5 years.

I'd rather have them focus on raid encounters and actually making the game a challenge instead of silly vanity mounts. It's not like they're not suppose to be reskins anway...

Originally Posted by Naidia

I'd rather have them focus on raid encounters and actually making the game a challenge instead of silly vanity mounts. It's not like they're not suppose to be reskins anway...

>Blizzard
>Can't make decent, non-rehashed mounts and reasonably fresh raid encounters at the same time

Oh jeez, that's pretty shitty. It's pretty sad when you want Vanilla back simply because it was a totally different company back then.

those ground mounts are very very very very very very fucking ugly

Wow the Alliance mount has Horde heads, that is pretty sick.

Originally Posted by twilightsamus

AJ has known about these reskins for a while now. (glad you're just now noticing) Thread here:

arenajunkies.com/topic/199203-images-of-gladiator-mount-confirmed/

Best post of the thread here, showing just how lazy Blizzard truly is being by giving blatant reskins to the top 0.5% of arena players, something that definitely deserves better than the treatment that's been given lately:

arenajunkies.com/topic/199203-images-of-gladiator-mount-confirmed/page__view__findpost__p__3265284

There's a follow-up post on the next page. Gladiators will just have to suck it up, as usual.

P.S. "10 minutes in photoshop"

Dude, Top arena players always just got mounts allrdy in the game with or without armor on (Nethwing drakes with armor) (Frostbrood without) Nothing changed. An players liked it so far, so whats the big diffrence now?

Not impressed with any of these mounts, save for the wolves/horses because at least they're new models.

IMO (In my opinion, so remember, my opinion, don't argue with it.):

- Twilight Drakes look lazily made, they're just the original ones with some rubbish armour slapped on them.

- I'll let the wolves/horses off because they have a nice, unique model but no doubt the wolves will still have that broken-leg run.

- Fire Hawks... Well, I've never liked the Fire Hawks and I've never understood why everyone liked them either. Their wings look stiff when they fly, that proto-drake skeleton just does not work at all for them and... they just don't look like any kind of bird or phoenix. Not to mention they're far too bright for people with bad eyes like myself, I have to squint before looking at that orange one.

- Flametalon of Alysrazor is a disgrace to my beautiful Anzu mount, it doesn't look detailed or even finished.

- I will let the Flameward Hippogryph off because I like hippogryphs, even more so now they're making them land mounts as well. (At last.)

Blizzard, when we said we were sick of drake mounts, we didn't mean we wanted other models and skeletons butchered to hell to make other 'special' new mounts!

I can't wait for the next mount that comes out that has it's own model, skeleton and STAYS unique.

Originally Posted by Naidia

I'd rather have them focus on raid encounters and actually making the game a challenge instead of silly vanity mounts. It's not like they're not suppose to be reskins anway...

You =/= Everyone else. For some people, the mounts are the game. And yes, they are reskins.

[/COLOR]ugliest pvp mounts i have ever seen...terrible...there's a huge difference between those and the frost wyrms...not even talking about the netherdrakes

I was actually expecting the pvp mounts to be stone drakes, than again they didnt get pvp protodrakes in wrath

Originally Posted by DruKow

All these mounts look so awsome.. from PVE to PVP, Gimmie my Fire Hawk and my Hippogryph. I might even start PVPing again because of those awsome PVP mounts, Firelands is gunna be great.. lots and lots of stuff and content.

Yeah, 4.2 is gonna be great cause they'll add new mounts, right? If having 150 mounts is what pushes you to log in this game everyday, then your concept of a fun game is very different from mine.

That twilight drake armor just looks out of place.

I think someones 5 year old kid is now suggesting colours for things in wow - awful day-glo colouring, why are they now making mounts flourescent lime green and neon purple?
The fire ones are understandable to an extent but I dont think they look particularly nice at all.
The wolf mount is nice but the rest are horrible

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Originally Posted by Waterspark

/facedesk.....

BGs...derp.... Arenas ....

so why give arena players a flying mount then?

Originally Posted by Dannz

yah i agree, they should just be handed out like candy so none of them are unique at all, why should people have anything unique in the game, after all we all pay 15$ a month !

/end sarcasm

unique <>cool...still

Her point still stands as she was referring to "cool" and not to "unique".

Meh, only the firehawk looks cool. Another boring update :\

Those who are complaining about reskinned/rehashed mount , please please give an idea of what content/mount/raid/dungeon/etc do u want . And then let the people judge either u are better than Blizz or not. Atleast Blizz are doing something rather than nothing . Stop whining.

Originally Posted by maldias

yes, they are very time consuming to make and make a whole range of animations for, then polish them, then fit the model onto it, check the clipping of the model when doing tha animations, then add the skin/pallet, etc.
making a good model take alot of going back again and again and again and again and again....

Well, "time consuming" is no excuse to not do it... they make millions of cash each month, so not hiring an artist/3D expert for a few months really is lame.
(I do understand it though, it's a company, but still it's lame and lazy)