WoW Petopia Community

Vephriel wrote: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.

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.

Aleu wrote:

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.

nirvana wrote: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 ^_^

Xakaal wrote: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.

Aleu wrote:

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.

nirvana wrote: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

Nubhorns wrote: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.