WTF , Bee mount only for Alliance?

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Reality matters more

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May I mention the following mounts?

  • Leaping Veinseeker

  • Dazarā€™alor Windreaver

  • Onyx War Hyena

  • Dune Scavenger

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Not sure why you felt the need to address this to me (as if all Alliance think alike) but since you didā€¦

I have not said in any of the threads Iā€™ve posted in that I think the Horde should not be able to use the bee (in fact I have said I think they should). My focus has been on the exclusivity as it relates to the existence of the quest lines to get the mounts not the actual mounts themselves other than stating what they are so people know what Iā€™m referring to.

The issue that a lot of Alliance players had with the faction mounts is that there was not the same variety as the Horde got - something which Ion acknowledged in the AMA where he teased the bee mount in the 1st place. This bee should have been a faction mount imo but since it isnā€™t I donā€™t see why it shouldnā€™t work the same way as the 2 Horde raise a mount quest lines.

As for ā€œsuper special privilegeā€ hahaha sure if you say so :slight_smile:

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Maybe you meant Monks

-Oh KT actually outsim Zandalari thereā€¦

Well maybe you meant Rogues

-Oh KT actually outsims Zandalari on all 3 specs

Has to be shaman then

-Oh KT outsims Zandalari on both shaman dps spec

Oh baby KT actually loses to Zandalari for Warriors! Complete racial imbalance am i right?!?!? Like i said. Reality>perception. KT racials are fine

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Itā€™s not just DPS throughput. Supposedly the Zandalari troll self-heal is extremely strong in PVP.

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Go see it for yourself in arena. I can assure you its not all it says it is. It is not a 100% heal. Probably closer to 30%

I can probably heal more with FoL in my bubble during arena than my racial

The racial is more for leveling and rare raid instances

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Donā€™t you get to use the mount on all your characters horde or Alliance once youā€™ve earned it. Thatā€™s how the teridax one works for the Ord

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Btwā€¦ Kuaā€™fon doesnā€™t fly on the Alliance side.

Weird he is flying nowā€¦

Edit: It turns out it was the Garrison bug that got fixed in 8.2.5.

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I addressed it to you because you were the first one in the thread to link the two dino reskin mounts as the equivalent to the bee. But the post was directed to the alliance as a whole.

As for the rep mounts 4 of the 6 on Horde side are different versions of the pterrordax model, the same as the one everyone keeps linking as one of the Hordeā€™s special exclusive mount. The other two are new models, but as also available as a drop for Alliance players. So yes, the Horde got the better end on rep mounts, but lets not pretend that all of theirs were super awesome and amazing new models.

I think Bliz tried to make it up to Alliance with the service medal mounts. The moonsaber mount was very nice looking. The bat mount that the Horde get is almost identical to the bat mount that that arathi rare drops, and itā€™s just a unarmored version of the one sold in the store.

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Obtainable by horde, able to be used by both, not the same thing. Bee mount is obtainable by alliance and able to be used by alliance only.

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And Blizzard explained already that they canā€™t put the Horde one in the game for Legal Reasons.

But as per usual, people seem to like to put their fingers in their ears and go NA NA NA I CANT HEAR YOU because itā€™s not what they want to hear.

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Thereā€™s zero reason why they canā€™t put a similar, slightly altered horde bike in the game though. Alliance complained about not getting their bike when the rules specifically stated only the winning bike would be available. If Blizz could change the rules for alliance, they can make another bike for horde players.

Not that I personally care. I have the one that won the contest. (I actually voted for the alliance one because the real life bike was all shiny chrome and stuff, and I wanted a shiny mount. Considering the one that made it into the game looks nothing like the real one, Iā€™m just as glad it lost.)

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Yes, there is. It was a televised contest. By making the winning bike available in any regard in some way other than televised, they violate multiple US laws, and as such would be subject to quite a big fee from the government.

You can blame all of the tv trivia shows that rigged their stuff back in the 50s.

Now any form of televised contest is highly highly scrutinized and has a ton of laws involved.

The Alliance bike was allowed to exist because they never explicitly stated it would NOT be in the game. They simply said that only the winners would be getting the bike for free. As such, by putting a price tag on the Alliance bike, they allowed the Alliance to get it while staying in the confines of the law.

However, they are not allowed to put a price on the Horde bike as that would violate the law, nor can they recolor it, alter it, etc. and insert it, as that would be seen as attempting to circumvent the law.

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Sad that the horde can no longer get it thoughā€¦only alliance can still get their version of the bikeā€¦

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Another bee post, another blood elf poster.

Blood elves were a mistake.

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What you guys get for playing blood hungry savages.

Save the Bees!

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This thread is 2 months old. At the time we did not know whether it was actually only for the Alliance - and my point was his question had been answered several times over in the numerous previous threads before he made his. But way to necro this one instead of posting in more current threads :slight_smile:

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Oh sorry, I had multiple tabs open and replied to a few, including comments on the current guides on how to obtain it with the exact same question, please punish me for doing so! But way to be a wannabe forum mod, you go gurrrl :smiley: