Earlier as I was cruising around Dustwallow for the Echoes event, I stumbled upon an interesting fact: the disc mounts like Tazavesh Gearglider have a unique takeoff animation if you double-jump from the ground (as opposed to casting Skyward Ascent from the ground, which has been my go-to a lot of the time).
Here’s a clip where I show the double-jump followed by Skyward Ascent animations. They are clearly different.
https://youtu.be/fKfWQOog_AU
Has anyone found other mounts which have a unique animation for takeoff when double-jumping from the ground? I tried the Felsteel Annihilator (mech frame) and Ensorcelled Everwyrm but they use the same animation for both double-jump and Skyward Ascent.
Archmage’s Prismatic Disc also spins in a circle when you double tap to take off.
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Yes, it’s the same as the book mount, but the book’s pages flail around while spinning. It’s like my favourite thing about TWW and I use the book on more alts now because of it lol
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Oh daaaaang, I’m gonna have to try that once I finish updating the game on my laptop. That sounds great!
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Yes, I’m like actually super impressed that blizz chose to add all these new animations for this obscure mount not many people have and it looks really polished.
Suggests they have plans to add more book mounts? idk
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When you use Whirling Surge on the Ragnaros or Farseer elemental mounts, the elemental spins, but the part you stand on does not.
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For me it’s cool not only because of the animations but because it shows they added additional places where they can customize animations. A lot of the mounts simply re-use the Skyward Ascent animation for takeoff, but they clearly have the ability to set it to something else if they want. It’s an evergreen system so I’m expecting more updates like this to more mounts in the future!
I mean, it would be if not for the fact that 20% of the time all the disc mounts in the game cause your character animations to break after you dismount such that you are permanently stuck in the flying animation even whilst on the ground.
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Oh, I was speaking specifically of how well the changes were made to the book mount, which seems to be the same rigging as the disc mounts.
I don’t use discs, the one that drops from Tazavesh I won and gave to some stranger so I don’t know anything about those bugs you mentioned. A shame.