Magnakilro wrote:
Yeah its unlikely we'll ever see the other dread ravens as mounts...though I'm basing this on MoP, which also had a mount CE reward (the Quilen). There were multiple mount worthy quilen models (3 of which appeared in the Iron Qon fight in ToT), but we only got that one. My guess is the same is gonna happen here too.
This ^
There are a few prior precedence that have me assuming that there we will most likely never see their counter parts/other variants. Your spot on regarding the other Quilen models and the link to the dread raven, I doubt they will ever become available to players due to the original being the CE mount, it would water down the "Unique" CE dread raven too much and may step on peoples toes.
The other mount to take into consideration that worries me even more is the Rylaks and the plethora of mount variants they come in (15 possible options to be exact). I have a bad feeling that we will not see any of these become permanent mounts due to one thing, the Iron Skyreaver.
Never in the history of wow has blizzard ever let players earn/obtain a mount, or a variant of, that is available on the Blizzard Cash Shop. Not even remotely similar.
Of the 9 mounts on the store, the closest any of them have become to resembling another mount would possibly be...
Celestial Steed and Invincible
Winged Guardian and Obsidian Nightwing
Enchanted Fey Dragon and (Any Classic) Drake
That is about as similar as any other mounts have gotten to a store mount in the past, which leaves me doubting that we will we ever see/be able to earn a variant of a Rylak mount. Lets be honest, with all these Rylaks running around (well if you tame one

) one could only assume that the sales in Skyreavers would potentially go up?
Eg. Insert hunters with Rylak Pet, wearing Rylak Stalker Armour. "Now... where can I get me a Rylak mount to match?"
And again, this also leaves me to guessing that as much as we will probably see hunter pets and taxi versions of the new Bats, I doubt we will ever see the Armored green, Armored Blue, and non-armored variants ever become permanent in game mounts. Don't get me wrong, I would be ecstatically happy to be proven otherwise, I just have a bad feeling I won't be.
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