Update - Added a blue post clarifying the reasoning behind the blog post.

Worgen Racial Mounts Clarification
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The intention with the new mounts was just to honor player concerns about achievements and even up the mount totals between the alliance and the horde. It’s something people had been requesting since the release of Cataclysm, so we’re evening up the numbers by giving the Alliance some additional mounts to add to their totals.

The Worgen racial mount is Running Wild. These are just some extra horses, for your horse needs. Perhaps the blog should have been titled 'New Gilnean Faction Mount'? Or maybe just 'Wyld Stallyns'? We may actually edit the blog to clarify why these mounts were added. To be clear, it’s not because we think worgen look their awesomest riding horses.

The intention wasn't really to hype this up, so much as to simply inform and reduce confusion. Our thought was, rather than let these be introduced without any context via data-mining, that it seemed like a better idea to introduce them ourselves with a bit of context.

[...] There was some miscommunication regarding the initial reason why these mounts were added. After talking with the devs again these mounts are actually being added because they already happened to be available and we thought it’d be nice to make them able to be purchased and ridden. Which is unfortunately quite a bit different than how we understood and framed the blog.

Their existence also allows us to give players that faction change to Worgen something in exchange for their old racial mount. Right now if you faction change to Worgen you lose your previous home-faction mounts, and so we’re also trying to correct that with this change.

Patch 4.3 Preview - Worgen Racial Mounts
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We're not going to make it very far without transportation, are we? If we just hightail it out of here, the forsaken will catch up to us in no time at all.

Rounding up some horses from the stable grounds southeast of here would normally be a breeze, but there's one snag. That last quake must've spooked Koroth, the ettin, down from the mountains. If we don't get our horses soon, I fear that he will.

In patch 4.3, we’ll be introducing worgen racial mounts to the stables of Azeroth. These sleek horses have been constant companions for the denizens of Gilneas since time immemorial, and your worgen characters will now be able to claim their ancestral mounts.

Click on the images below for a preview of what’s coming:




We hope you’ll visit the new worgen racial mount vendor to pick out a steed to call your own.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 4.3 Preview - Worgen Racial Mounts started by chaud View original post
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  1. Mif's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Harold View Post
    If these are placeholders, then they shouldn't have put out the announcement with them in such an underdeveloped state. If these aren't placeholders (Which, to be honest, I'm more inclined to believe), then this is quite possibly the laziest Blizzard has ever openly been - even after all these Blue responses of lack of resources (Translation: Can't be bothered).
    The only way they're placeholders is if Blizzard caves in to the pressure from the community and changes the model, then to save face they'll claim it was only a placeholder.
  1. mmoc3ed2de34d2's Avatar
    I'm not really shocked to be perfectly honest about this. I really do know for a fact Blizzard have totally run out of idea's now and proberbly going to start going even further down hill. They've got alot to think about for the next exspansion.
  1. The Glitch's Avatar
    love armourless mounts... but Horses? Oh well at least it's another 2 mount's towards the achievements for some people.
  1. agasha's Avatar
    The only reason I can foresee why they did this was to balance out the goblin racial mounts. Currently the faction change mount conversion is all screwed up from the list they had before, as I found out recently.
  1. mmoc44b549a6e8's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mystile View Post
    Quitting over the addition of mounts, this is a new one to me.
    I think it's more a matter of Blizzard adding stuff that stinks of lazy. I won't quit over this personally, but it does go on the pile of things I have some serious doubts about. I guess for the person you quoted this was the last drop.
  1. Alanar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Baalb View Post
    It is more than likely a very early version of the mount. Wait till it's done.
    Why the hell would they make a blue post with pics of stupid uninteresting beta models?? that doesn't even make sense...
  1. Burpie's Avatar
    I like how the pic file names are horsey1.jpg and horsey2.jpg. Awww. Horsey!
  1. Kourvith's Avatar
    Looking at the pics, I couldn't help but let a LOL explode out of my face."Hey there, you Worgens really deserved some special mounts, different from the others. So we gathered several ideas, and are now proud to let you own this : A NAKED HORSE. BELIEVE OUR MARKETING DEPARTMENT, A NAKED HORSE IS GONNA SUBLIMIZE YOUR EPICNESS."
  1. Bombkirby's Avatar
    "BLIZZARD SHOULD BE MAKING ACTUAL CONTENT AND NOT WASTING THEIR TIME ON MODELS!!!"Well you got your wish! And what do you guys do? Complain! Blizz just can't win! XD
  1. mvaliz's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by sharpyx View Post
    I really like these horses, they look much nicer than the default ones - I look forward to riding around on this simple but sexy mount
    What do you mean, they look nicer than the default ones... they ARE the default ones!!

    I can't find the image... but it's just the wild horses around the farm at Elwynn forrest from 6 years ago. They're the same model without the saddle.

  1. xindykawai's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by dvstec View Post
    ok, im done. bye wow.
    im sad for you that the only reason you need to quit wow.
  1. crsh1976's Avatar
    Not sure what kind of feedback Blizzard was expecting, they could have at least reskinned them (at least we know they're really good at doing that); this is just lame.
  1. -Ethos-'s Avatar
    I dont know why people expected these horses to be covered in spikes with lazer-cannons on their backs, shooting rainbows from their asses as they run. Theyre horses - of course theyre going to look like other horses.
  1. Kathranis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mercadi View Post
    Does it mean that "running wild" racial would be removed? I must have missed something.
    No, they never said any such thing. They're just adding these to the game in order to even out the balance with goblins.

    I just don't know WHY they made it an announcement, just using old horse models like that. It doesn't come across as something worth making a news article about.

    Should've just been in the patch notes: "A Gilnean mount vendor has been added to Darnassus with two new horse mounts available, in order to balance the mount availability between Horde and Alliance."
  1. contemporary's Avatar
    Sept FOOLS... for sure!
  1. dude1903's Avatar
    ahahahahahaha Horse.
  1. Shanai's Avatar
    So, people should stop being upset over basically the same mounts that are there since almost forever? Yay, now I can have more mounts, that look almost the same, just without a saddle!
  1. Bombkirby's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rivehn View Post
    this is y i quit 5 months ago....lol reuse.
    You quit because you knew they'd make these mounts? I applaud you for your psychic abilities but that has got to be one of the worst reasons to quit. 2 horses you'd probably never use. XD
  1. Suikoden's Avatar
    Wow that's certainly.... lazy.
  1. Arngrim310's Avatar
    This is just embarrassing.

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