Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
The source of complaint (2) is also the reason for complaint (1). They want you to be sure you're getting off the mount, because you have to go back to the NPC in order to get back on. If you were to address (1), you could address (2).

But

I don't support suggestion (1). People could start a quest and then never finish it, so that they could have the special mount with special actions, at least in that specific zone, without having to put in the work. In the current system, you can only stay on the mount as long as you don't do anything but fly around. If you leave the zone or do anything unrelated to the quest, you lose the mount. It should stay this way.

And since it should stay that way, we should keep the dismount protection as well.
Your objection seems to be based on preserving the "specialness" of the mount, especially as it shares a model and animations with the mounts that you get for grinding out your reputation with the beast tribe in question. Your fear, as I understand it, is that allowing for remounting on a quest mount would allow people to take out that quest and keep it indefinitely, and get a version of that mount that they can use any time they are in that zone, with a special action to boot. Because this makes the faction mount less valuable, you argue that it is not a problem that should be addressed.

What if the ability to remount onto a quest mount had some/any of the following restrictions (let's say the questgiver gives you some kind of whistle):
  • Give the whistle a timer of 30 minutes before it is removed from your special inventory.
  • Give the whistle a number of charges before you have to go back for another (3-5).
  • Make the whistle disappear from the player's inventory if they zone out.

Any of these, I feel, would keep the quest mounts as a limited-access item, and would make buying the permanent mount once you reach the proper reputation be worth something. And because of this, it would enable them to function and behave like other mounts. Do you think this would work?