With Corridor Creeper favorited, the Summon Random Favorite Mount button still tries to summon mounts that are not allowed in The Maw. It should always summon a mount that can be useable in The Maw.
Problem solved with this Macro:
#showtooltip
#showtooltip
/dismount
/stopmacro [flying]
/run local zone_name = GetRealZoneText(); if zone_name == “The Maw” then C_MountJournal.SummonByID(1442) else C_MountJournal.SummonByID(0) end
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
Not a bug, a feature request, but I second the suggestion.
It’s smart enough to summon water mounts under water, so there must be some existing code to handle certain terrain. Feature/bug/whatever, it’s annoying!
The Maw is probably not coded as a distinct mount environment like water or flying are, so that “existing code” wouldn’t apply. If the suggestion* is accepted, the devs would have to do some work (possibly considerable) to enable that.
* The developers don’t accept suggestions for feature changes from any of the Support forums, including this one. Only from non-Support forums like General Discussion or the in-game support function.
I agree. This needs fixed. You can spam the summon random favorite and eventually you get it though. That’s what I’ma be doing.
As an alternative to trusting RNG, maybe pull that specific mount icon out of the mount collection and put it on its own action button? I mean, if you want one specific mount, that’s the exact opposite of “random”.
It is a bug. The “Summon Random Favorite Mount” button is not working as intended. The tooltip for it states “The mount will be chosen randomly from the favorites usable in the current area” which it clearly isn’t doing. The amount of code, work, implementation, whatever, needed to resolve it doesn’t affect its classification.
Came here to post this.
This is exactly true, it is a bug and is not making things easy to manage mounts in the Maw.
Second this issue. Maybe they’re ignoring it because 9.1 will make it a non-issue or something.
In the meantime I use the below macro (courtesy of some Wowhead comment) to work around it:
#showicon Corridor Creeper
/run if GetZoneText() == “The Maw” then C_MountJournal.SummonByID(1442) else C_MountJournal.SummonByID(0) end
I simply would move the mount to a button on your action bars and then mount and dismount using that button. No need to type anything that way for a macro, which you would then place on a button on your action bar.
The point of this thread is to be able to summon a Maw mount and still use Random Favorite Mount.
My bars are packed enough without dedicating another spot to a secondary mount. The macro is an all-in-one solution and does the thinking for the user.
I just wanted to put the solution to all our problems on this thread. You can summon the Corridor Creeper specifically by checking what zone you’re in.
This is my Paladin’s mount macro that will summong Corridor Creeper in the Maw, and a random favorite mount anywhere else:
#showtooltip
#showtooltip
/dismount
/stopmacro [flying]
/run local zone_name = GetRealZoneText(); if zone_name == “The Maw” then C_MountJournal.SummonByID(1442) else C_MountJournal.SummonByID(0) end
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()