Hello there, guys!
I'm new, and found this place by searching for 'WoW Hyena mount' in google.
For that's one of the mounts I would love to see (especially for Goblins xD)
Here's the list of mounts I would love to see:
• Hyena's
• Huge hawks or Eagles (a new model, more resembling an actual hawk or eagle)
• Owls
• Condors
• Non Taxi-bats, like stated before
• Stags (normal and warstag, just an idea)
• Rhino's
• Shoveltusks (Yaks anyone?)
• Plainstrider/Tallstriders/Ostriches.
Another idea I once had and which was welcomed, was giving each class their own prestige-powers.
And to get back to the Druid-saddle... I love that idea.
But we took it a step further.
A lot of people liked the idea me and some guildies had of hunters having the option of becoming 'Animal Handlers', like were used in another game (Star Wars Galaxies), who could tame not only pets but could also tame mounts.
There were a lot of idea's for 'Lvl 80-85 prestige professions', but the hunter one caught fancy the most of all ideas.
Imagine an Archeology-like interface.
In it, give a hunter an ability to toss on a saddle and a bridle on specific animals (felines, wolves, giraffes, zhevra's, hyena's, birds of prey, wild horses, wild raptors, serpents, drakes for instance) and let him do something like the Seahorse minigame, breaking it in. Make it level like any other secondary profession, and make them able to use better tack, saddle and bridle to catch swift mounts.
Perhaps make that an interresting one for leatherworkers: make that Tack.
While level progressesing, like with Archeology, one can learn to tame new 'families', of Canines, Felines, Birds, Equines, Rhino's etc.
Slap a cooldown on this of 1-7 days to prevent abuse. Make it a BoE mount, so they can be sold as well.
Include it into the guild-achievements and vendor-items: Guild-saddles and saddle-blankets to put on any mount?
It's not hard to make, since most mounts allready have a skeleton based on existing animals in the game: Canines all share the same skeleton and animations, felines, zhevra's share that of horses, and Phoenixes use that of a bird. The Crocolisk surfboard will just have to wait, eventhough the animation is allready there.
It -would- put an end to the 'Felines are Alliance, Raptors are Horde'-taboo. Often enough my Alliance friends farm their fingers down to the bone to hope and get that raptor from Zul'Gurub. Other-wise, our Horde friends work down to their knuckles to farm the Feline. And the dropchance of 0.6% remains the same, and there's a lot of dissapointment.
Just an idea.
Also, perhaps make a leash for them being able to catch certain vanity pets, BoE, as a world-drop learnable for that extra profession.
Opinions, good folks?
