Making The Phase-Lost Slateback a ground mount is super lame

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Thats the post, thank you for coming to my ted talk. Why make one of the coolest mounts a ground only mount?

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so they can put in a phase type mount later that flies and get you to do double the chores :sunglasses:

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It would be really nice if it could fly, but maybe they didn’t make animations for it flying (or what to use the courser’s animations for it?).

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That seems like a pretty bad excuse. I refuse to believe they just dont have the technology or resources to make it fly

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I wish it could fly but then you see the ottuk that can’t fly and it just feels really bad.

Hopefully they either patch in a fix or give a small quest chain that rewards it with the ability to fly.

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It’s the “in the phase” mount, right? So, you want to hop over the mobs and fly over to kill the six boars? Maybe they are trying to avoid that choice.

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I think that mount will just be a separate zone item and this is the one you keep as a mount you can use everywhere. ie, I can’t mount while phase diving with this mount yet

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Giving us ground mounts at this stage of the game is trolling tbh.

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realistically there should just be a mount equipment that lets any mount fly.

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Fixed /10char.

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The distinctions really feel arbitrary at this point

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Do you see any of the normal npc Slatebacks flying?

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Have you ever heard of an ethereal that can’t fly? This slateback possesses the ability to teleport between dimensions, but flight is just too much of a suspension of disbelief?

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Is it though? :dracthyr_hehe_animated:

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I agree the mount should fly.

forced grounding at this point in the game is dumb, and unfun.

it’s also dumb that the ability to use it is locked behind the cloak. I have the mount, I should be able to use it. the only thing it needed to be locked behind was the achieve to get it.

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I get what you’re saying, but the upgrade wraps/ribbons/whatever they’re called drop extremely frequently from all end game content (world quests, delves, dungeons, bgs, solo shuffle, etc)

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Making a maw 2.0 that isn’t even a stand-along zone but rather is just a pink phase of the main zone with no mounts allowed until week 2 AND you spend hours grinding for drops to get a ‘special’ mount is even more lame.

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worst part about this is what it’s done to world boss groups. everyone is abusing them to phase hop to find more orbs. so you watch people join/leave/join/leave

I was unapologetically one of those people. I felt bad doing it but it didn’t stop me. but I saw more than one world boss group just fall apart because so many people were just siging up to phase hop.

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And even if you spend 5 hours farming random weapon drops all over the zone to get the mount, you still can’t use it in the actual zone/game mode it’s themed around…

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lol, I should have watched the video on this earlier - was just out there doing world quests and I saw a fair number of these but I was avoiding them because I thought they were negative stuff.