Horde & 100 mounts

#0 - March 8, 2009, 12:33 a.m.
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Every Horde Player who tries to get the 100 Mount Achievement knows that Ally have 4 easy to get mounts more. Nevertheless there is no change incoming on PTR. I mean "THEY EVEN FIXED THE CHICKEN QUEST" and made Sprite Darter Eggs dropable for Horde so that it's easier or even possible to attain these non combat pets.

But still no change to the 100 mount Achievement. 4 mounts more for this achievements means insane luck on random drops or over 1k $ real life money (TCG - lootcards) more to get this Achievement.
This is no qq about blizz loving ally or something like that but it´s about getting up to date.

I know that, in two years every noob that cares for archievements or mounts will have this archievement, but then there will be a 150 mount archievement that requires you to have almost every rare mount in the game as horde (and 4 less as ally)

Proof:
7 mechanostriders, 6 elekks, 6 sabers, 6 rams, 7 horses = 32 Alliance faction mounts
vs.
7 hawkstriders, 6 raptors, 5 kodos, 6 wolves, 5 Undead Horses = 29 Horde faction mounts
+ Wintersaber for allies and NO ravasaur (or something else to replace) for horde

But seriously, how hard is it to make 3 new re-colors of existing horde mounts; you could even use the 60% or the old (from patch 1.0) skins, add armor to them and make them 100%.
And the ravasaur shouldn’t be hard aswell with the new token system, just make it buyable at vendor for lots of new items that drop from ungoro mobs, or you could even make it require lots of those ungoro crystals.
#22 - March 9, 2009, 5:55 p.m.
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Don't forget that the Argent Tournament will be adding 5 mounts for each faction, maybe 6 if I remember it right. 100 mounts gets easier over time.
#25 - March 9, 2009, 6 p.m.
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what are the rules for this bor ?


Rules?
#28 - March 9, 2009, 6:20 p.m.
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Each faction is getting the same amount of new mounts, which means it will be even easier for alliance.


Easier is easier.

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Also....what about sprite darter dropping for horde?


No plans for this that I know of... beyond what is in the patch notes.
#48 - March 9, 2009, 8:15 p.m.
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Someone needs to read the latest test realm patch notes with their coffee in the morning.


Corrected last statement.

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my computers been down so i dont have any idea what this tourney is.


http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15198917105&sid=1
#49 - March 9, 2009, 8:18 p.m.
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Confirm/Deny: I heard that you will only be able to get your Races mount for the argent tournament.
ie: undead can only get horses, taurens can only get kodos...
I don't remember where I heard this, but someone said this was true.


No reason to do this since we stripped away the restrictions on using other races' mounts on your respective faction. Based on how I was told it would work, you can't get the elekk if you choose to be a champion of Ironforge, but if you change over and be a champion of Exodar, you can get the elekk.
#53 - March 9, 2009, 8:54 p.m.
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Thanks for the info. :)
So, it's basically going to be a lot of "farming" if you want to be able to get all the mounts?
I'm not really sure how it's going to work. I logged on the PTR for a little bit and tried some of the quests but I'm really in the dark about how it all works.

Are you adding more factions to get exalted with in order to do this, or is it something else?

And will it cost gold to become a champion of a new faction?


Things are still being changed and whatnot, but it will be more of a daily quest "grind" to be a champion of one faction then you have to start over with another one. Keep trying it out on the PTR and it should be pretty easy to get and I'm sure there will be guides and breakdowns on fansites in the near future.

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My apologies for not using the Smiley Caption System (tm)


there are rabid pet collectors that scour for any tidbit of info regarding pets, so we tend to be on top of this kind of thing.


Yeah, I have 80 pets already so this one slipped past me as I have been watching mount activity more lately.

Official: My bad to all sprite collecting members of the horde out there.