This pretty much sums up the entire game unfortunately and it sucks ![:frowning:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/frowning.png?v=6" ":frowning:")
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The whole thing blizzard did with the mount is just plain asinine. Rather than simply being a 5 person mount, which in itself was amazing, they felt they had to give it some niche extra speed bonus then, in fear of that speed bonus, restricted the use of the mount.
Just remove the speed bonus or turn it off in the content you are so worried it would be abused in. Everyone else gets a lesser mount because blizzard built and reacted to a problem all on their own.
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The speed bonus doesn’t even stack past pathfinder & DK/Paladin speed so it’s hardly even relevant.
Except in BGs, RBGs, M+, or any other content where moving 5 people faster holds an actual benefit and there is no pathfinder.
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As I said on another thread and Celestalons twitter feed
-Reminds me of the 5 man group WQ auto grouping
“What are 5 man group content WQs? Are they something you quickly group with randoms and go do something else? No they are interpersonal group communes where life lesson are explored, and new better social interactions take place”
/cast Head desk
-This just continues exemplify the massive disconnect between devs and their player/customer base, and worse the devs and game they are developing actually is…
-Or, ya know, you could design it so makes sense, instead of having guilds or communities having to continually do it with every possible combination
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Only allow the speed buff in open world. Boom, fixed. Keep your hands off my mount.
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LFM M10+ Have Hivemind and monocles for attunement.
Sadly this is turning a cool mount and puzzle secret into a waste as i see many players saying whats the point of even getting the mount now… such cool content in my opinion going to waste because the reward isn’t worth the effort
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I got it, it looks like the fun police have already fixed the alt ‘bug’ (you can now mount with the people you did it with’s alts or mains only). Regardless I think this was not thought out at all and really undermines Developer/Player relations.
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Honestly, when it was leaked, I thought it was going to be a raid mount and that makes sense, but as a 5 man transportation tool to a mythic dungeon… Just summon me, I’ll brb.
Riders get parachutes when this happens.
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Pretty much sums up wow these days
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Not everywhere, and if you know the spots it’s funny AF.
This is part of what would make the mount mandatory for everyone. Groups would end up kicking players that didn’t have the Hivemind mount and thus couldn’t participate in the group buff (and would also thus be left behind those of their group that can travel faster with the Hivemind mount).
This suggestion is a contradictory paradox. What point would there be to entering someone else’s Hivemind in a group setting other than simple travel in the outside world? It would be a virtual guarantee that not all members of the group were together when they completed the puzzle, and with that being the case, the buff wouldn’t even occur at all for those that did because they’re paired with others that did not.
The buff simply needs to be removed from instanced content entirely. Otherwise, it favors one very tiny fraction of the players over everyone else. The concept wasn’t a bad one, but in the context of where mounts are allowed and how mechanics work in World of Warcraft, its execution is highly flawed.
Just make it a normal 5 man mount and be done with it. Blizzard is tripping into their own mess again trying to be “different”.
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As much as I like the mount speed buff, it only stacks in weird edge cases anyways so it’s really not worth the hassle. Anyone who got Hivemind should be able to Hivemind.
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1st off this post is about compromises… a compromise if blizzard doesnt want the speed buff to apply to players who did not do the puzzle together would be to atleast let players enter other hiveminds without the speed buff. also if you have friends that are levelling or friends that dont have flying in old content areas those are just some examples of the uses of a multi-person flying mount… it’s really not hard to think of ideas of how useful it could be.
beside the fact that this makes no sense, you clearly don’t know how the mount works… you get a 10% speed buff for each person who you’re attuned with enters your mount. which means if your in a party of 5 with only 2 people attuned together if the whole party entered a mount there would only be a 10% speed buff if they changed it to allow anyone to mount together.
Like I said this post is just spitballing ideas of possible changes bliz could make that would possibly make the mount better for the playerbase.
You can go back with 4 other people of your choosing and link with them. Repeatable as many times as you like. No problem.
I think this is an example of the community being a little spoiled. They didn’t have to give us the mount in the first place. Restrictions aside it’s a pretty cool mount with some neat flavor added in. There are literally hundreds of mounts in game. I think it’s ok it one of them works a little differently than the rest.
TL;DR - There are more important things to get upset over
I think this is an example of Blizzard being a little spoiled. We don’t have to pay them a subscription in the first place and spend our money somewhere else where the devs don’t give something then take it away after seeing how happy it made the customers.
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