Patch Notes PTR 3.0.3 Warlock Epic Mount now trainableFollow

The epic ground mount is now available on the trainer at level 61, requiring 150 riding skill, and the non-epic mount learned.

Think this goes live? Same for pallies. Leaves me feeling a little meh.

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/testrealm.html

I don't like this. I wanted to be able to go through the epic events to get my mount. That was part of the fun of getting it. Are you still able to do it that way? Or is it a complete waste of time now?

I think blizzard has forgotten there is more to life than lvl 70 soon to be 80. i have never had a maxed character even back in the days of lvl 60. its funny i talk to people in my guild who have lvl 70's and have never even heard of Molten Core. They also don't know a thing about some of the abilities and things that have been done in this game. This is just another step towards that. I have a lock in my guild who is trying to do the quest for his mount as we speak. The problem, not the gold to buy the items since you my lvl 20-30 alts have 500-1000 gold a piece. its the fact he can't get a group to go to the instances he needs to do. He asked some of the high lvl players to help him and they don't even know where he is talking about. So what does this have to do with the EPIC mount. well its not epic anymore cause now you can fly and get epic fliers. so why should blizzard care about what goes on pre 70. I just want there to be things to do and experiance to have. experiance used to be something in this game besides what you needed to grind out another lvl.

so with that rant done all i have to say is that blizzard. please don't do this to this mount and please include things for people below the lvl cap. i personally enjoy the journy to the end. and want things to do on the way there.

Reasoning why the dreadsteed is there in the first place: warlock spells (including demon spells) were overall WAY higher than those of all other classes, sans paladins. Now that warlocks have had a HUGE chunk of spells removed from having to be bought (demon spells), there is no real justification for the actual different mount.

HOWEVER, to completely take out the quest would be retarded. Still, I think what is going on here is the many, many complaints about no one running Scholo/Strat/Dire Maul (to account for both paladins and warlocks) - which is truth. But the quest is just way too fun, and it gives you a good sense of accomplishment, imo.

Calm down, folks. Nowhere does it say they're removing the quest-chain. As far as I can tell, they're just adding the epic mount as a trainable spell instead of forcing you to run the quest.

I'm in the "happy, but sad" category. As a casual, guild-less player, the thought of trying to PUG the two instance quest branches makes me break out in hives. Also, with WotLK arriving in three weeks (yay!), I'd be surprised if people ever run Strat/DM again.

Now, I did the mount quest on my Alliance warlock, and it was an absolute blast! Now, I had a good guild with that character. I'm now leveling a Horde warlock and I don't have a guild yet. I'm glad I'll be able to get my flaming-horse-of-doom without having to go through all the rigmarole.

So... change is neither good or bad, just a change.

Honestly I don't think it's a big deal making the dreadsteed trainable. Yes, by training you miss out on the cool quest line, but you also get to skip the annoyance of having to run dead instances.

Feats of strength for the pally/warlock mounts and druid epic flight form quest completion. /nod.

Edited, Oct 26th 2008 3:59pm by wingsofscion

I'm in the same boat you are. But on the plus side, my lock is also semi-retired. It still pisses me off though. It better be just an option to buy the mount from a trainer, because I don't want all the money I spent on the items to be a waste. Especially since my lock is poor right now and I'd have to do some serious farming to come up with the almost 500g it costs to get the 150 lvl mount training.

They could at least have made the ones from the quest a different color (maybe blue flames), to give people who made the effort something to show for it. I've not ridden my hard earned dreadsteed since any gold-buying johnny no-mates can get one (Got my troll rep up instead and got a raptor :) ).