Wow race matching with mounts

I know you guys probably don’t care about mounts matching with your race. But looking back at it, I feel like certain races look ridiculous on certain mounts given their size and all.

Such as a blood elf on a wolf or something, just a random thought I had lol. Does anyone else agree?

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I only feel complete with my mechagnome mount wearing my mechagnome armor while wielding mechagnome weapons. Maybe I do. :wrench::robot:

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Mounts got out of control long time ago.
WoW doesn’t look like a fantasy game anymore, it looks like a saturated Halloween show.

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Blood elf on wolf is awesome actually. The real short stick is worgens, they need Tauren like mount scaling, my guy looks huge on a horse

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Pandaren racial mount is ridiculous with a panda riding it. Should have been yaks for our racial mount.

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The size thing only bothers me when it comes to mounts like cranes. It’s hard to believe that skinny bird is going to hold up my 1500lb tauren. Just looks weird.

But beside that, I do try to match my mounts to my characters race and class, plus it needs to match my fab mog.

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It depends on my alt really. Like my mechangome only rides mech mounts, as does my human hunter named Mechanic. My mages ride mounts that fit their spec, fire mounts, icy or blue or frost, purple for arcane. I don’t often get on skinny horses or little mounts with my panda here, usually big cats or dragons. Really I do it by theme of the alt overall.

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Tauren on the Water Striders still get me. Those bugs’ legs must be made of iron.

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I just try to pick my mounts to match the size of my characters.
Other then that, I think swapping racial mounts is fine.

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This toon usually uses a magical looking dragon. There are a few different ones, the one from shop, probably the most.

I use the lightforged mount a fair bit.

I usually match by class, spec, or transmog. The armored alliance worg does match up with my worgen hunter though.

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I like the idea of elves with wolf mounts honestly.

My first D&D campaign, I had an elf ranger riding a cusith as a major NPC for their first adventure.

That said in the context of wow - racial mounts are obvious but some of them just suck (I already feel raptors are a bit goofy, hawkstriders feel like they were slapped together at the last minute to avoid doing lynxes, they’re not even local to Quel’thalas). Cultural mounts imply a lot of variations and I sometimes mix it up in ways that feel like they make sense. I use big cats on all elves even on blood and void elves (or just the dragonhawks and hippogryphs). An elekk with my draenei goes without saying.

I use the fox mount a lot if I need a ground mount that’s not those. I never ever use mounts on my drac unless I am absolutely forced to (I am still salty about Amirdrassil wing 3, yes)

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Yeah, I tend to only really use mounts favored by the race I am playing as.
On my human, for instance, I only use gryphons and horses, nightsabers and hippogryphs on night elves, etc.

Yeah, we look ridiculous on most mounts when in worgen shape. Horses, especially. Personally, I have Calm the Wolf on so that after every combat I automatically pop back into human shape, so I don’t look ridiculous on mounts.

But yeah, I do try to match mount to race/class. Because of that, I have a bunch of mounts that I just… don’t use, because they don’t “match up” to a character I’m playing.

Here’s me matching Race and Mount :smiley:

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My fellow bovine hits the nail on the head here: matching your mount to your transmog is the true final end game content of WoW. And of course, you need a matching battle pet, too.

/moo :cow:

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Elfquest comes to mind. I’m not really familiar with it, other than seeing the books in my local gaming shop. They all had wolves and my friends, who hosted game night, recommended the name Blackfell, which came from the series. He became the mount and companion of one of my earliest D&D characters, a dwarf fighter. Went on to take a prestige class, Rapid Response Rider. :smiley:

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Ironically the best sized mounts for worgen are Worgs/Wolves