I really like the new Otter mount:
But please consider more achievements and using mounts that won’t have recolors, there’s already datamined for other otter mounts, a lot of collectors would like to have something like the Crab mount from Nazjatar or the Maget Tower Book that’s an unique mount model so far.
Yeah, that’s dope as hell. I saw that and I thought it was neat beyond all hell. A bone armored Otter? Sign me up, I’ll ride that man into battle.
The armored otter mount is amazing, no disputing that. But datamining shows there are several that look like this in the files. Which means the same arguments made against the yeti could be made against this. 500 is a lot of mounts and is a massive effort for any player. It really feels something bigger should go here. Like Brutosaur big.
I tihnk the otter looks like a really good beginner mount farmer achie…500 mounts is actually alot of mounts, and I would like something more spectacular.
I mean the same bunch of people have been getting an amazing mount and title every season for doing 3vs3 for years. Why not give a proper award for something this rare.
And add 450, 550, and 600 mount rewards already.
Devs though that the feedback was Yeti ugly, lets change it to a Cute mount.
Another Otter datamined:
there are a total of 10 otter mounts datamined… this is insane that they chose it to be a mount achieve mount
The otter looks ok and all, but when there’s 10 others that all look pretty much the same, it loses its appeal lol
Why not a completely unarmored version so it stands out from all of the recolors of the same model, a spectral one perhaps, something… anything that’s not just a slight color variation on something that’s being used a dozen times for other purposes 
When heard the 500 milestone mount achievement was being changed from the yeti to
my first thought was:
Needs to be changed!
Drop the Ott and bring in the Stormcrow!
The achievment is implemented alongside a DRAGON-themed expansion.
Its pretty obvious what the achievment should give, in my humble opinion ^^
This situation is exactly why I’m always advocating for more diversity within the dev team, when stuff like this happens, it’s pretty clear that the person in charge of the decision has nothing to do with mount collectors and has probably never touched base on any mount collecting sites/sub-forums/threads because if they had, they’d know another recolor of an already commonly used mount would go over just as well as the yeti.
Fill a dev team up with horde raiders that don’t give a damn about collecting mounts, pets and achievements, and you’ll never hit the nail on the head with achievements and rewards.
in addition to a nice looking mount we need a special dragon skin for 500 since were gonna be mainly in DF is something to say " hey i worked my butt off for 500, look at this amazing looking dragon"
Dev rewards are out of touch with the collectors community or they’re tied up by some weird philosophies among the WoW team IMO.
Yup, like we can’t add an achievement that’s too high because it’ll feel too out of reach for new people… what the hell place does a new person have eyeballing an achievement that takes 10+ years to get near?
It’s meant to be there for the long term effort, stop making decisions like this based on people that walked in the door 5 minutes ago, gear it towards the people that have been working towards it for years already.
The worst part is that they keep adding limited time mounts like the Slime saber for S4 or AOTC mounts…etc but a mount that will be there always, it’s just out of reach for new people at the begining.
I don’t understand how these decisions are getting made and “ok’d” for implementation. If there was a 700 mount achieve to come out I’d get it right away and the fact that I’ve spent countless hours farming all these mounts, just to have Blizzard give a crumby looking recolor of something that doesn’t stand out in the slightest, is just a slap in the face.
If they ever get around to 550/600/650/700 I’m terrified…
Let’s face it blizz doesn’t actually care about how hard a mount is to obtain. What a copout. Gladiator mounts are always the coolest in game and some of the hardest to obtain. I would argue that achieving 500 mounts is on the scale of achieving gladiator so we should get an equally impressive mount.
Yeah but the gladiator mounts/titles have been achieved by the same people for 10years+, 3 times per expac.
Would be nice if blizz managed to give something a wee bit impressive to collectors as well. Something that you will actually use and people will recognice you for. The 10th recolor of what will be the most recolored mount in WoW history is pissing on collectors in me opinion.
(this whole conversation could be applied to pets and toys as well!)
Devs should at least do a “Reward Deep Dive” talking about how they bring the cosmetic rewards to the game, players asked for this achievement for years during several Q&As via content creators, not only frequency between achievements, the rewards…etc
8.2 brought an unique reward like the Nazjatar Crab, Why Shadolands meta achievements for 9.1 and 9.2 just had recolors? If the Crab was a step on the right direction, How the overall game is impacted by the store?..etc everything depends on the playerbase perception.