Considering they are aquatic animals, and the one in the Stables goes at full speed on water when you have to capture it.
Considering they are aquatic animals, and the one in the Stables goes at full speed on water when you have to capture it.
Most likely because they're based on the Hippopotamus, which actually can't swim.
Edit: Grammar
Just because a creature lives in shallow water doesn't automatically mean a swimmer. The riverbeasts tend to be near shallow water more than deep lakes.
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Treno, I'm not sure if you're aware of how fast hippopotamus' can move in the water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEXYw91lQuY
I've tried to find some facts about how fast they move in the water and all i've managed to dig up is they go a little over half the speed of their running capabilities which can reach up to 35km an hour, 17km an hour swimming? that's pretty fast.
(Apologies, i refuse to refer to measurement in miles.)
Currently a mount that swims fast is either not useable or is at running speed while on land. The water strider is an exception that water walks, a few classes already have mounted water walking. But it also requires you to go out of your way to earn them with some work involved (nat pagle both times and both times take you aside from everything else to earn them...except stockpiling thousands of fish ofcourse, 100 lucky coins for this expansions version is at minimum 24 hours of fishing straight) compared to the hippo's which are world drops, main faction vendor items, etc.
Being swimming mounts would mean they were going to be an easily available mount that was be at top speed on land, ontop of water, in the water.
Or more simply put. They never intended for them to be swimming speed mounts as those are often only brought in under special circumstances.
Last edited by Tenjen; 2015-08-03 at 10:34 AM.