Return of Reckoning

Hi

I think a lot of players love the event mounts, but we don't like it have a decay time. I can understand the point of view of the developers to keep the event mounts only for a short time, but like the guild mounts now, i think this propossal can be good for devs and players who love Fashionhammer.

My idea is the event mounts grant a tome unlock, and for these mounts to have a decline period similar to what we have now. But once the period is over, and with the tome unlock done, you can purchase these mounts permanently for a significant amount of guild coins and gold. Perhaps 50 guild coins and 1,000 gold can be a good amount for these types of extraordinary mounts.

In summary:
-Need obtain the mount during the event time
-50 guild coins (or even 10,000 War Crests, similar to Ranked ring)
-1000 Gold

I know that the amounts I have put are very high, but the idea is that mounts without decay are extremely rare and only true Fashionhammer enthusiasts are willing to sacrifice a lot to obtain them

Thanks for your time

Mounts are something that have been brought up in discussions for the longest time. Without saying too much in terms of our plans with them, mainly due to lack of concrete ones. We do want to find a way to introduce new mounts to the game on a permanent basis, but we need to do so carefully so we don't lose the allure of the mounts in general.

It's something that will require planning and a very solid implementation should it come into play but we do hear you and I'm also an advocate for new mounts because there's so many great ones for people to use - but yeah, we need to do it carefully.

Kaelang wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 1:51 pm ...but we need to do so carefully so we don't lose the allure of the mounts in general.

That's the main point to me ; aside the lore you somehow need/want to fit to, mounts need :
- Good enough characterization, i.e. you need to be able to tell wich side is a player as soon you see their mounts at visual range.
- Minimal footprint, or same as existent ones, to avoid being an hindrance for other players (i.e. Wyverns are horrendeous because wings hitbox prevent people to click on NPC/items/other targets), or being abused to this purpose.

I may add some existing issues that may need to be looked at :
- Maguses since there is no way to tell if they are mounted or not (maybe something can be done to decrease/increase respective size of the two Discs models)
- mSH for the same reason (maybe add very distinctive features for mounted version, like big horns ?)
Side Note : I know there is sadly little control over existing models and rigging, unless things recently changed, so I won't hope too much in a near future :p

Loving any expansion of game content, I strongly appeal to save lore accuracy as far as possible. Basic mounts are lore friendly. But dwarves riding on unicorns make me sick, either wyverns for Order. Do not repeat this **** again, please.

This is normal, when some mounts are restricted to specific race. If you like any type of this, just make an alt character.

Well, as I see it. If a mount is duration based. It's worthless. I don't want to have to grind the same mount again and again. The allure for me is "Oooh that looks nice", then I see the 30 day duration and this is my reaction:

just make the duration longer, 90 days or even more, since usually the mounts are tied to an event. Could make the mounts only available during those events, but have them last "almost" as long as it takes to get to that event again.

From an purely "fashion" perspective, I don't like the special event mounts b/c they remove the faction aesthetics offered by the existing mounts.

More importantly, though, these mounts have better stats and those should not be made available on an even semi-permanent basis. Mount speeds are already too high for the map sizes anyway. Making these more persistent (at least as they are) would take them from being a temporary boost to being a required baseline feature for competitive play and likely break even more stuff.