I’m wondering if they’ll be in or not, since I’ve been wanting to take the extra effort and level / grind quickly to be able to get the Ivory Raptor at max level before the honor system gets added, which was when they were removed in retail Vanilla.
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I wouldn’t mind if they added some of these mounts to vendors, but since they were long gone by 1.12, I very much doubt they will be added.
The mounts data is still in the game. So it should be easy to add them to Classic, even if for a limited time. If they do that it would be nice. But I don’t really care.
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Blizzard needs to add these to the game for 5 months like in vanilla.
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They need to be in the game.
The armored mounts are a great example of something blizz messed with and made worse.
Much like everything after vanilla.
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But they wouldn’t be considered rare, will be confusing visually and will look like a private server
But they wouldn’t be considered rare
I mean, nothing in Classic will be considered as rare as it was in Vanilla. We know how to find anything in that game. And these pre-1.4 mounts will still be a status symbol for the early adoptors for Classic who stuck with it until level 60 and grinded their way to 800-1k gold.
will be confusing visually
In what way? It’s not hard at all to differentiate which of the unarmored mounts are the epic ones and which aren’t. If it was, then they’d override the pre-1.4 epic mount items with the newer, armored versions instead of taking a more light-handed approach and letting players exchange their unarmored mounts for armored ones.
and will look like a private server
Mate, I’m not sure how unarmored mounts supposedly = private servers. They were in the original Vanilla for a solid 5 months before 1.4 released, and even after 1.4, a lucky few still rode them into battle. And it’s not like the pre-1.4 mounts are going to somehow doom Classic into being just like Nostalrius for you; there’s a lot worse things out there than unique mount colors.
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What i take from what he said is that on private servers every man and his dog tries to get them while theyre available.
Which is true, as they are the preferred mount of many people.
Myself included.
They were available for about 5-6 months in vanilla and should be for that long in Classic
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I dont expect that they will be. 1.12 seems to be very consistent with how they are doing stuff. AV, Dungeon caps both scream 1.12. So Im expecting the same for mounts.
I’ll be very surprised if they’re not. They should be available for the same window of time they were in vanilla.
I’m hoping but not holding my breath
I really hope this happens.
Make it happen, Blizz. We believe in you.
If they were in 1.12 then sure. If something that’s considered “rare” in retail was attatched to doing something amazing back in Vanilla, then I think that thing should be kept rare as the exact parameters were specific to Vanilla.
But, if something was in the game during 1.12 but was also only obtainable through doing something amazing, then those stunts, feats, challenges should be included in Classic as well and not just the item.
I don’t something in the game just for the sake of having them in the game.
LMAO blizzard wants you to think of it as something “rare” or “special” but in reality at the time they were probably like
“Hey guys so we made these sick new mounts with armor and stuff just go ahead and REMOVE THOSE OLD MOUNTS FROM THE GAME FOREVER before we add these bad boys that people will be dying to get for the next 15 years!”
I don’t care either way, the truth of the matter is that more people liked the armored versions. How do I know this? Because they traded the unarmored ones in for the armored ones. That is what makes them rare today.
It is cool in retrospect. That is all. In the era, it wasn’t cool.
So you’re saying that they are rare only because they’ve been artificially made rare by blizzard removing them from the game