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With the new Mists of Pandaria even there is so much talk of the prestige of mounts, with old mounts getting new methods to be obtained, but im here to let you know, THEY’RE ALL WORTHLESS!!!!
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Mounts In World of Warcraft Are WORTHLESS!
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Great video, I think what truly destroys the prestige of mounts is the fact that at all times we are being bombarded with "new" models and recollors which, for the most part, are sold by merchants for some specific event currency. ..which makes it a bit banal for you to collect mounts.
There should be more unique mounts, challenging to obtain, beautiful…like the ones in the store…Than a bunch of mounts that you will get by farming a coin for half an hour in the game.
I mean did these mounts ever really have prestige? I mean it was just dumb luck and no skill so I'd hardly call them "earned" with the old method, at least the bronze vendors mean you earn it through diligence playing the event.
Mounts are mostly useless. I for myself never got a mount but I do know of using one in Kalonline and it being bad enough. I just did better for not using a mount. Runescape is better as a game that doesn't use mounts. But pets are nice for Runescape and their boosting a skill.
Trying to make these mounts stay stupidly rare isn't as good as elitests think. It doesn't make you want to keep trying, it's so rare that it makes you want to give up. And most of the time, people do. If someone gets a mount easily that took me years to obtain, so what? It doesn't make it worse.
great video lots of great points… Ive been wanting invincible for forever but now the drop rate is impossible and I dont need that stress… and ANY UPDATES ON THE JEWELED PANTHERS???? I cant afford them in the auction house folks also I cant make them cuz this one ingredient is ALSO expensive…..
It wasn't a 100 percent drop chance for the mount on Dracthyr, just a very very increased chance. I think it worked out to be something like 33 percent. They didn't have any other loot on the table than the mount, so the way loot worked was the game would decide whether you got loot first, and then if you did, it would select what from the table. So the dracthyr had to win the first hidden roll, but if they did, they were guaranteed to get the mount, instead of having a much higher chance for ten other things from the loot table.
Lmao retail is just a mount farm simulator quite sad
Always was
the fact people whine and complain about the prestige loss for mounts is just pathetic, you want prestige gtfo and go do something with your life, jesus christ.
man i had a 100k gold in cata and wish i bought a mount lol now i wish i had 6million gold 2 buy the wooly rhino
I don't play Retail, but in Classic, I feel like there's some prestige in having rare mounts and I was always impressed by Time-Lost, and the raid mounts. I never saw the Gladiator mounts or the 25 man no death AT ones, but I would have been very impressed by them. I was never really impressed with Scarab Lord because it's sort of something you got being in the right place at the right time, and it's kind of dull, but I know others were impressed by it. For Retail, I think mounts don't have that same wow factor because there are so many of them starting around Cata that, as you said, are really only relevant from expansion to expansion. You have to really be in the mount collecting scene to notice them (especially ones that are simply recolours) and when that's the case, it loses some of its luster. It's just another mount for the non-collectors.
I find it amusing the set-up you have in this video. Its like you're sitting at a table across from an orc who is telling you his thoughts on mounts in WOW
its a good change 😀
I think it was less to do with prestige but more to do with dedication and luck on raid mounts. Back then, you have to have lots of DKP and the luck for certain mounts to drop. Then you would have to bid against your fellow guildmates for certain rare mounts.
We really need to end this immature mentality of "It was hard for me, so it has to be hard for them". Or worse, "I spent hours farming this, so only someone like me deserves it." How is repetition or blowing money considered prestige? Skill is prestige. If Blizzard gives away the very first Gladiator Mounts or even the Black Scarab Lord mount, then we might have a conversation on our hands.
xaryu is the exact kinda idiots I was refering to when I said "whats the harm" if theyd release other addons like they do with MoP as well, they think it "invalidates" their "achievements", and dont even realize how dumb they look while spouting these trash-takes.
I find it funny that people think that being lucky is perfectly fine, but spending shitload of gold that maybe 0.01% of players have (or even less) is bad? I have almost 500 mounts, I was lucky few times, other times I was super unlucky (almost 100 kills and still can't get Raven Lord from Anzu lol) – like 99% of those mounts are worthless anyway. The only ones that actually matter are the ones obtained by skill/time investment. With the mount "inflation" no one in the sane mind should care about "prestige" anyway. It's not 2006 where half of the Orgrimmar will stop to look at you just because you have some cool mount. I feel like most people complaining about those things are people who are playing the game half of their life, have no problem sinking thousands of hours just to see some pixels on the screen. And I'm saying it as someone who wasted a lot of time of my life playing WoW…
i personally believe wow should just open up an item shop with every mount in there. i would use code "zuggypoo" in checkout. normalize fortnite item shops!!
Ion mentioned a while ago that the one TCG mount that wouldn't come back is the Swift Spectral Tiger, or at least not unless it was in a super special way.
But wouldn't be the first time they've gone back on things they have said.
I think the biggest concern for me and some of the playerbase is simply, what's the point grinding for these mounts or cosmetics anymore if we can get them much easier down the line.
Now, 10+ Years down the line is a lot of patience…
Unfortunately making scarce items easier to get for a limited time just increases player counts (returning players). And that's all business really cares about. Everyone else will just put up with it, because we are trapped in a game we have already invested years to. And even if we quit, its just out with the old players, in with the new. It's all the same to Blizzard.
Luck in the game is not prestigious. AOTC, seasonal title etc. are prestigious. A lot of ppl go and kill Sha of Anger and they just dont have luck for drop. If they want make prestigous mount they should delete them when next expansion start. Same thing with achivement. Im working hard for meta-achivemnt Dragoflight – why ppl can obaint this much more easily in next expansion? For me its funny why ppl dont see diffrence bettwen luck and prestigious.
Mount farming is totally a time waste with no use at all. Mounts are useless. Thats my conclusion after years of wow.
i lost all intrest in wow when they added the zebra to the trading post. (14:00) it was the rarest mount i had and they just gave it away.
Once you main Druid you never waste time on mounts
There hasn't been any prestige in having a mount, much less anything, unless it was ACTUALLY FOMO gated, for OVER A FUCKING DECADE NOW – because Blizzard can't be bothered to implement mythic challenge raids or what have you on max level, like FF14 does.
So stop whining. Those mounts are irrelevant at this point.
The fact is Blizzard encouraged this culture of mounts. People get sucked on to mount farms, and that 1% drop keeps them subscribed.
Its a limited time event
Personally when it comes to mounts i don’t care if they become easier to get later on, i just like collecting them as a hobby; and for mounts i put a lot of personal effort into, like my shadowflame proto-dragon skin i feel proud of it. Other mounts i have took way less effort but i still feel pride in how i got them.
And thats all that really matters to me, how i feel about them not how others feel about them.
i wasnt allowed to get the black scarab because i was dwarf, and humans get more rep. so i had to help him farm it. by the time i got the item it wasnt allowed. also disagree with xayru, and meh i feel i should be allowed to get it other ways, i dont want to sit there to farm. waiting to even try and spawn it. and fight for a spawn. alfksgkljashbglkajshg;askgb;asljkgbaslgfb
and fyi i been farming mounts since you first could. just because i didnt have the RNG as they did. i probably farmed more than some people. so…. why should i not get them?
and i had tavians mount 7 days after it dropped. lol cause they added a new achievement you had to get
My prestigious mounts are my glad mounts :p and I guess plagued proto is still kinda cool even tho it’s just a gold mount. My urzul is special because I got first drop 😂