4.3: Worgen Racial Mounts Preview [Combined Thread]

[Nubhorns]

I'm always happy for more ponies.

But pack muuules. D;

[Aleu]

Plain, but I think rather than focusing on a new fancy model, Blizzard just acquiesced to those who wanted the 2 extra Alliance mounts for collecting balance. As a comment on WoW Insider stated:

I call these the "There, you Alliance players now have two more mounts to collect like the Horde got with Goblins, now shut up," set.

This really. They were once Humans so it does make some degree of sense to have Horses, even as Worgen now. I like ponies anyways. <3

[nirvana]

Hm, potential solution: use colors not available on the armorless human horses. Palomino is one that comes to mind, as well as grey and dun.

Palomino: http://www.deviantart.com/download/9267 ... eiraxx.jpg
Grey (this is a "grey dun" or "grullo"): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... neyDun.jpg
Dun: http://www.equine-world.co.uk/about_hor ... XSmall.jpg

[Aleu]

The intention with the new mounts was just to honor player concerns about achievements and even up the mount totals between the alliance and the horde. It’s something people had been requesting since the release of Cataclysm, so we’re evening up the numbers by giving the Alliance some additional mounts to add to their totals.

The Worgen racial mount is Running Wild. These are just some extra horses, for your horse needs. Perhaps the blog should have been titled 'New Gilnean Faction Mount'? Or maybe just 'Wyld Stallyns'? We may actually edit the blog to clarify why these mounts were added. To be clear, it’s not because we think worgen look their awesomest riding horses.

The intention wasn't really to hype this up, so much as to simply inform and reduce confusion. Our thought was, rather than let these be introduced without any context via data-mining, that it seemed like a better idea to introduce them ourselves with a bit of context.

Blue post from Draxxarri clarifying the blog from MMO Champion.

[Kalliope]

The Worgen racial mount is Running Wild. These are just some extra horses, for your horse needs. Perhaps the blog should have been titled 'New Gilnean Faction Mount'? Or maybe just 'Wyld Stallyns'? We may actually edit the blog to clarify why these mounts were added. To be clear, it’s not because we think worgen look their awesomest riding horses.

Blue post from Draxxarri clarifying the blog from MMO Champion.

Ahhh, totally in favor of that change! And yes, that would have been a better way of presenting things. Downplaying this announcement is a good thing.

[nirvana]

Just wanted to share something that has potential. I was going through the WoW Model viewer and there are skins for pack mules (I seem to recall some being in the Eastern Plaguelands). These skins can also be applied to the riding horse base model, and the results....aren't half bad.






As you can see they all have distinctive, different colors from the current horse models. A bit of tweaking to make the skin fit the frame perfectly, and I would be pleased to ride one of these ^_^

[Nubhorns]

Just wanted to share something that has potential. I was going through the WoW Model viewer and there are skins for pack mules (I seem to recall some being in the Eastern Plaguelands). These skins can also be applied to the riding horse base model, and the results....aren't half bad.






As you can see they all have distinctive, different colors from the current horse models. A bit of tweaking to make the skin fit the frame perfectly, and I would be pleased to ride one of these ^_^

The pack mules themselves are just missing a saddle and a bit of their reins underneath all of that gear - and they do have some model differences to boot.

I just want big-eared ponies, to be honest. :P

[cowmuflage]

I don't see this as a bad thing as said before they are not the worgen racial. There humans anyway why would they not ride horses? Undead humans do even!

Anywho the number of mounts is even on both sides now. Can't really complain about that.

[peanutbuttercup]

I guess my complaint with this is that goblins got trikes. And they're pretty darn cool. So yes, this would match up the numbers of mounts for both sides, but I can't say plain horses are the equivalent of trikes, unless you really love the horse model.

[Harvoc]

@ GormanGhaste

I fully support your idea and I even found pictures on google:

[Chimera]

I would love a wolf/horse hybrid or those mules. I really hope we get to keep our Running Wild cause if not, i am going to faction change cause i already have a lvl 85 night elf and draenei and i dont need another of either of them (i dont like dwarves, humans, and gnomes). I spent $55 to server and faction change so i could be ally side on my 85 hunter with my raiding guild, i'll be F&(_(*^% dammed if you F&_^&%^ that up!! >_>;; i really like my Running Wild..... i feel it was extremely fitting for worgens.

[Nubhorns]

I would love a wolf/horse hybrid or those mules. I really hope we get to keep our Running Wild cause if not, i am going to faction change cause i already have a lvl 85 night elf and draenei and i dont need another of either of them (i dont like dwarves, humans, and gnomes). I spent $55 to server and faction change so i could be ally side on my 85 hunter with my raiding guild, i'll be F&(_(*^% dammed if you F&_^&%^ that up!! >_>;; i really like my Running Wild..... i feel it was extremely fitting for worgens.

The Worgen racial mount is Running Wild. These are just some extra horses, for your horse needs. Perhaps the blog should have been titled 'New Gilnean Faction Mount'? Or maybe just 'Wyld Stallyns'? We may actually edit the blog to clarify why these mounts were added. To be clear, it’s not because we think worgen look their awesomest riding horses.

Blue post from Draxxarri clarifying the blog from MMO Champion.

Running Wild is not going anywhere. And poking around the link provided actually explains that it's to even out the mount number and give people who faction change to worgen an extra mount, since they lose their old racial mounts in exchange for Running Wild.

[Shade]

I agree that horses make sense as a worgen mount-seeing as we were humans origionally.

And they are not exactly like the current horse mounts. I'd want to see them in game to be sure, but from what I see these look more liked raft type horses then the thin, quarter horse like breeds humans have.

My only concern is... Only two?! All the other races, except for goblin-who also only has two, get 6-7. Can't they give more love to the worgen and goblin?

[Qinni]

Hey, I would kill for an unarmored mount and I like them! I plan to get this on all my alli toons and ride them all the freaking time! I never did like the saddles on the ponies anyhow.

I'm still waiting on a wooly kodo.

[Lisaara]

Guys, think about it....worgens are HUMANS that were cursed. Of course they're gonna get horses.

[Kalliope]

No one's said that the horses aren't an appropriate choice. Of course they are. They're just not super-exciting, since we already have so many horses.

On the other hand, it was pointed out that these horses don't have saddles! I hadn't noticed with the worgen legs in the way. That's a pretty cool option.

[Britany]

Hm, potential solution: use colors not available on the armorless human horses. Palomino is one that comes to mind, as well as grey and dun.

Palomino: http://www.deviantart.com/download/9267 ... eiraxx.jpg
Grey (this is a "grey dun" or "grullo"): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... neyDun.jpg
Dun: http://www.equine-world.co.uk/about_hor ... XSmall.jpg

Would kill for that Dun skin.

[Harvoc]

Personally, I just want them to have both. If they're in human form, their mount is a horse for the speed. If they're in worgen form, their mount is in wolfhorse form for combat. Man, this makes me so want to ride a wolfhorse on my worgen rogue right now.

[Chimera]

Running Wild is not going anywhere. And poking around the link provided actually explains that it's to even out the mount number and give people who faction change to worgen an extra mount, since they lose their old racial mounts in exchange for Running Wild.

i read that they were giving them mounts because of those that faction changed but i didnt read anything explaining that Running Wild would stay >.> <.<;;

[SpiritBinder]

As much as they could have explored a plethora of ideas for the Worgen racial mount, I'm pretty sure they did before cata was relased, and they choose Running Wild. Sadly this meant that non-worgen player did not have access to this idea. If they then now went back and re explored a new mount and implemented it, it would just seem like a lot of time invested in just evening up the numbers (no matter how cool the mount could have been).

So now they added some horses for them as rep rewards. Sure we have enough horses imo, but they make a clean easy sense to add, to accommodate the number discrepancy introduced with Cata, which makes me Very happy.