MOUNT DROPS! and how Bfa is doing it wrong

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A fairly small complaint here but something that i feel like could be really cool.

Talking with others who feel like the game is not engaging and aren’t excited for the warfront mounts now, because getting them was too easy…

Well thats silly isn’t it, Blizzard are basically giving us 12 free new mounts all you gotta do is kill some mobs, just like on Argus… yeah! its… great? wait IS IT?

You know which mounts i have the best memories of?
1/100, or 1/2000 mounts, World boss mounts are epic… they’re rare which makes them so much cooler, Is oondsta’s mount better looking than any of the other direhorns? god no, its gross imo but its the only one on my favorites.

Sha, well being black is cool… but there are other heavenly that look pretty mint also…
Galleon… reskin… Ruhkmar is now a reskin…

But they’re all STILL EPIC!
Even Nalak which is the last i still need feels epic to chase after…

Ok, ok who am i to talk about mounts?
Well i used to raid back in TBC/Wrath but the game really felt bad after Trial of the crusader heroic forced a guild transfer as Blizzard weren’t willing to fix server issues on an Oceanic server, about 30-40% of our guild at random would disconnect during the fights and you could wing normal with people dc’ing all over the place during heroic progress it was a nightmare and put us weeks behind, That killed raiding for me, and i didn’t return until the end of Warlords.

Where i picked up mount collecting… and i’ve systematicly got all the “Rare mounts” between classic and i’m now in warlords for blackhand (and panda for nalak) then i’ll only have a couple in legion before i have to play retail… noooo ha.

And the mounts i got easily i forgot unless they looked cool… even then it was meh… but the mounts i had to put decent time into 1863 attempts for sha made the heavenly oynx feel rewarding, it feels as good to me as my black proto i earnt.

And i think that is the point by trying to make these new warfront mounts easily obtainable they are missing out on years of content for some people, i’ve run into loads of people camping mounts, visit Nalak on isle of thunder on the active american realms if you aren’t quick you will miss him spawning because he is surrounded by people!

I think each release of mounts blizzard should consider making one a 1/2000 mount, a really cool one worthy of the grind, and a couple 1/100 or similar… having them on rare mobs that repop every couple of weeks 1/100 would be fine, and putting a 1/2000 mount from warfronts into another bit of content would be great also.

I also believe there should be a mount similar to the timewalking mount for MYTHIC/mythic plus, a 1/2000 or 1/3000 mount in mythic plus would be really cool alongside the dungeon drops, maybe you could even have it at a lower drop chance the higher the key you do, 1/4000 for mythic 0, 1/3000 for mythic 5, 1/2000 for mythic 10… etc but i wouldn’t make it a lower than a 1/100 nightbane really suffers from that… it was a cool idea but making him a 1/100 farm would’ve put the value of the mount much higher.

This kind of follows the “rng for cool stuff” but these mounts are 100% farmable if you put in the effort, and being dumped 100 free mounts per expansion doesn’t make them feel very good… even in the style of Argent tournament would be better, give you a token you need 500 of each time you complete a world quest and pick a mount would feel somewhat better than freebies.

I do understand some people play with only one character and these mounts are “already hard to get” but doesn’t that make it so much more worthwhile when you finally get one?

I’d also love to open up the discussion about how pve mounts are “for everyone” but pvp mounts get locked into “current pvp” but sigh

I’ll collect all the mounts i can because i am inclined to do that, but if we can get some of these changed to be lower drop chances (which is really weird isn’t it??) i feel like it’ll produce gameplay for an extended period.

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What’s the TL;DR?

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Uh, mount drops being a higher percentage builds a feeling of joy when you finally obtain them, and gives people content for much longer than they normally would.

Doesn’t have to be every mount blizzard put into the game but every so often it’d be really cool if something took effort to obtain.

(oh and before people say anything legions system was pretty broken too, mounts from paragon caches weren’t ideal they need to be linked to bosses, and argus mounts took me a week to get lol)

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I see what you’re saying. I don’t know if I agree. Since WoD the game has become bloated with mounts. There’s already so much to collect that as a mount collector I don’t know if I would want another Sha of Anger.

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There’s some rare mounts, and there’s some that aren’t so rare. There’s a mix of them like there always has been, nothing has really changed all that much.

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My question would be why not? if you want to collect all the mounts sure blizzard should just give you every mount that comes out… but if they don’t and you gotta farm them or randomly get them imagine what they could be a couple of years from now.

I almost think Blizzard should’ve made more reward bags with 1/1000000 ish chance to drop older mounts, like vendor mounts, 1/100 mounts, all kinds of random mounts when you get a bag of some type you have a very tiny chance to get something from the past, could motivate people to do content for them.

But i think you’d really have to be careful which mounts you added to a bag like that, but certainly for people who didn’t play years ago could get a random mount from the past, it could be really cool… but yeah.

Yeah Asana i’m not saying everyone of the warfront mounts should be 1/2000 i’m saying for example there are 6 new ones coming out, what if the armored nightsaber was changed to be a 1/100 instead of 1/33.
and they add a new mount to mythic dungeons at 1/2000, maybe the old stormcrow based on the rukhmar model.

I think that’d be cool.

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As a mount collector, I see very little problems with mounts of all things right now, personally. Like I said, there’s still many rare mounts, and the mythic raid mounts are pristine as they always have been. They even added more rare ones to dungeons.

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Personally, in my opinion, I’m not thrilled about recolors.

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Yeah and the new mounts are cool, but i don’t see them lasting very long is all, which in a way is kind of nice… nice to have them “done” but sometimes it’d be nice not to be done :stuck_out_tongue:

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I wonder why they got rid of world boss mounts… probably because they’re on a cycle now or something. I’m back farming Nalak and have been on my 26 alts for many months now. Which is all good fun–I know it’s a rare fellow, and the feeling when you get one that rare is not like any other (I got to experience it with the sha mount!)

It seems like they add the more rare mounts later in the expansion, like in the second & third raid. I would wait it out to then, I’m sure they’ll add something very juicy.

I… would personally love more drakes though myself, haha. But that’s a me thing, of course. This expansion has no major dragons. :frowning:

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There needs to be a balance. This is done by making some rewards easily obtainable. Some that are items you work towards (i.e. achievement mounts), and some only the very dedicated will work towards.

The mounts being offered in BFA cover this spectrum.

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I feel like I’m the only person that never farms mounts.

Anyway, you’re asking for worse RNG after everyone shouted “LESS RNG!” for the entirety of Legion.

I suggest getting your gambling high somewhere else.

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Nah! It’s not some people’s cup of tea. Mounts all do the same thing, some fly, some don’t. Some have vendors. But mount collecting is a fun thing for certain peeps that not everyone is into which is understandable.

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Or just work on mounts currently in the game. She doesn’t have her 350 or 400 achievement yet so there’s around 100 mounts waiting to be collected!

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To be fair… the boogie chicken isn’t really (in my opinion) something all that fun to go for. I’m at 375 myself and just want to get it to have it. I hope 450 is something better. :s

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Easy for some people. Not so easy for others. It’s RNG.

I got 0 paragon cache mounts during Legion. I have 0 of the warfront mounts. 0 dungeon mounts, 0 island expedition mounts. My RNG luck is garbage. Easy is relative.

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The cursed caches, the cursed caches! I still shudder at the mention. Over 70 for my storm. After Legion ended did I get it, mind you. x.x

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i’m asking for Rng where it could be helpful to lenghting gameplay so it can be taken out of the titanforging system and loot system and blizzard can have their cake and eat it.

I mean its an mmorpg rng is always going to exist, and if you want every mount ingame then you currently have to work for it, and if you don’t want to, then it doesn’t hurt you to have another mount or two lower drop chance. :slight_smile:

I feel like easy mounts everyone gets are just forgetable, i guess if you never put effort in free mounts are nice? lol

and Tovi yeah, i have a lot of boring mounts i will work on after i have all the rare ones, i’ve got Nalak, Blackhand, Nighthold, Tomb, Antrous(final boss) left until i’ve done the wb/raid mounts so i’m trying to get those done first. :slight_smile:
where are you up to?

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I love that mount. I have been begging for Blizzard to put it in the game since it made it’s way to the files years ago. It’s by far my favorite mount from that achievement string.

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Good for you, but I personally hate it. I think it’s very lackluster and would have been a better reward for something else. This is all subjective, of course. But I wish they’d added in something much more interesting. Gross…