Can we stop with the drop mounts?

#1 - July 26, 2011, 9:31 a.m.

Sup. Mount collector here. Relatively new one as well.

Noticed something.
Almost every other mount ever has been a drop off a boss.
Sure, it's pretty neat when you're just running through heroics and manage to pick one up however considering the fact a lot of mounts come from this...Yeah. Bit annoying.
It's even worse with raids considering the sheer amount of drama that stems from such low drop rates.

Flameward Hippogryph? Red/Iron/Rusted/Everything Protodrake? Dark Pheonix? Argent Crusade Mounts?

Yeah. I like these. It's not RNG based. It's effort. Can we get some more of these? Farming an instance really isn't "work" more so "rolling the dice"

The grind for the Crusade mounts is a bit much considering the content is now outdated but again, great concept.

Also: Time-Lost/Aeonaxx/SeahorseMcGee
Good idea. Causes a lot of greifing though.

inb4: u mad kraai

Zarhym

Community Manager

#59 - July 26, 2011, 10:42 p.m.

You'll likely always see a variety of ways to obtain mounts in the game. We don't necessarily implement all of them in a way that ensures we acquiesce all mount collectors or achievement hounds.

We want a healthy number of mounts to remain fairly rare in the game, and sometimes that involves making them huge luck finds in dungeons or raids. For the average player, there will always be plenty of new mounts to acquire or work toward, but we also want to have a decent variety of coveted mounts that only a lucky handful of players will find.

Players often express concern that they end up looking like everyone else when they acquire awesome gear. This was somewhat a flip from the concept that tier sets were much too difficult to obtain back in the day. We share this concern and also think it's a problem that would apply to mounts as well, if some of the more rare ones out there had their RNG components removed.

There are so many mounts in the game now that having some really rare and random prestige rides is okay by us. ;)