Special Mounts

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I think the issue with people liking it and not liking it is the confusion of what it will look like, so here is a piccie!

Looks OK:


Looks Daft: (Though i think hilariouz)

^^^ This is the exact thing I'm worried about. ^^^

It seems that too many people can't see past their own character to focus on the big picture. They think "OMG how l33t will I look riding a Goobbue/Ahriman/Drake/etc..", but never consider how silly it will look when everyone else is doing it too.

Of course, its just a reward for current players, right? Well, once that door is open, we will see players clamoring for mounts of every shape and size. It's a bad road to go down.

Every addition in an MMO needs to be multiplied by 100x to get an idea of how it will appear and affect the game.


The proper thing to do is to implement this mount system as part of a Beastmaster Taming ability. If high-level BST could tame and ride mobs like that into battle, It would give the mounts a purpose as well as integrate them better into the world.