Hunters unite - Tameable MountsFollow

Pretty much all beasts in-game can be trained as pets.
Problem with the "Hunter mount" suggestion is that most beasts in the game aren't big enough to be mounts.

Let's look at the popular hunter pets shall we.
In no perticular order:
- Scorpid (Waaaaaay to small to be mounts for anything)
- Boar (Maybe a Gnome could ride these, but they're not hunters)
- Birds (Not gonna happen)
- Cats (too small to support Tauren or Dwarves)
- Bears (possible)
- Crabs (too small)
- Alligator/Crocodile (ya right)
- Turtle (probably big enough to be mounts, but would you really want to have a turtle as a mount?)
- Gorillas (not gonna happen)
- Cockatrice (maybe, but Tauren/Dwarves would crush them)
- Raptors (Troll Mount)
- Wolves (Orc Mount)
- Spiders (too small)
- Bats (see birds)
- Wind Serpent (nope)
- Hyena (too small, same as cats)


Edited, Sep 11th 2006 at 3:45pm EDT by Galanda

Wait...They dont just give a class a free mount because it makes sense. Paladins skills are expensive, and Warlocks have to pay for their skills and their demons. But it would be cool.

But are the pet skills that expensive....Arrows! Those cost a ******** in the long run right? And food takes up space...

In medeival times a mount was commerade and partner to a knight as much as a pet is to a hunter in the game, being able to tame a mount would allow the hunter the choice of what kind of mount they get, which in turn would promote their emotional attachment. Size would not be an issue as most times when you tame a pet they shrink in size but their original size is appropriate to Mounts. I am not suggesting that all tameable animals be made tameable as mount, but obviously there would be certain ones that could be and others that couldn't.

I like the idea of having different Hunter trainers being able to train you to tame different mounts. In Darnassus there would be a trainer who could teach you to tame a Cat, in Orgrimmar you could be taught to tame a Raptor or Wolf, in IF a Bear or Ram etc.. If you wished to ride a cross-faction mount maybe Ratchet and Booty bay would have trainers for cross-faction mounts so that a NE could tame a raptor or an Orc could tame a cat.

Here is a list of my ideas for potential Mounts for Hunters:

Cats- From Nightsabers to Lions and Tigers
Wolves - Most wolves that I have seen are all the same
Hyenas - kinda cool evil looking mounts for hord
Zebras - I know that in-game they are called something else...
Thunder? - forget the full name, but they kinda look like Kodos
Kodos - great for the Taurens
Wild Mustangs - this would actually require an addition to the beast list
Rams - found in the Northern Pass
Bears - Great Mounts for Dwarves
Giraph - from blasted lands - not right name, but you know what I mean
Raptors - there are many larger raptors that would be fine for this
Spiders - some of the larger spiders could easially be made into mounts if the game did not shrink them. Imagine riding Lady Sathrah around.

I would even go so far as to say that if you want a mount that is already a mount for a certain race you would have to buy it, and the only animals that would be tameable for this purpose would be those that are not available to your faction (a stretch) or ones that are not currently available for purchase.

As for price, I don't know how expensive it is to learn to summon a mount for the other classes, or how much work the quests involve, but similar pricing could be developed for hunters to keep it fair. You wouldn't be able to just go pay 10s and get trained to tame any available beast as a mount or anything. Perhaps a quest which takes you through the ringer to prove that you are worthy and then a cost for the training comparable to that of the Warlocks and the Pallys.

I am developing a website where people can add their information to a list asking Blizzard to add this to the game. I plan on adding all reasonable limitations and ideas to the request, so if you have any details that you think should be a consideration, I will review and if they have merit add them to the final proposal to Blizzard.

If anyone has experience in creating the graphics or any technical information so that we can anticipate what Blizzard would have to do to accomodate us it would be helpful if you could provide constructive comments. The more we know about what they have to do to make this happen the more likely we would be to give them a proposal that would be feasable for them.

Stay tuned to find out more about the website/petition. I hope to post a link to the page as soon as it is available.

Ok, if they can add tameable mounts, then i DEMAND that shaman get ghost wolf mounts.

HELL NO!! horde get hunters too..

A few points to clarify...

1. A Hunter WOULD have to exert the same cash/effort that a Palladin or Warlock already does, this is a given, I am not suggesting that this should be a free gift to Hunters. Whatever Pallys and Locks have to go through we would as well.

2. The pet would remain a pet, the mount would be another beast to tame - I am NOT suggesting we be able to ride our pets, and perhaps we would need to feed our mount to have them gain loyalty to build up to regular mount speed by offering food just like you need to do with a pet (this may be too much programming for such a complicated game and may just provide too much of a complication).

3. If any other classes believe that they too deserve a mount through a similar process then they will have to take up the cause as I am and try to unite their bretheren into signing a petition to Blizzard. Perhaps if Shamans also signed our petition it would set a precedence to pave the way for their petition to be recognised. We hunters would most likely be willing to sign yours as well to return the favour...but I can only truly speak for myself. Remember all those in the alliance who oppose this based on Hord having hunters as well that soon we will have our own shamans who may wish for this to be included.

4. Hunter mounts would work just like the mounts for Locks and Pallys, however, due to the attachment hunters tend to feel for their beasts, perhaps simply a quest to "upgrade" our current mount at level 60 in order to keep the mount that has served us faithfully for 20 levels would be prudent. Something such as a spell that, once cast, would make our mount appear epic as well as perform as an epic mount would, this again would COST THE SAME IN EFFORT/CASH AS PALLY/LOCK EPIC MOUNT.

I am NOT looking to get a "free ride" for hunters, just for a similar ability which makes sense for a beast oriented class such as this. My main argument has always been that if we can tame a pet we should be able to tame a mount - in real life the people who are inclined towards animals are the ones who train and work with them, it only makes sense.

i don't think anyone that anyone that owns a horse in real life thinks it's a "slave" they ARE friends and comrades...!!! maybe hunters in order to have a tameable mount..the tradeoff would be that they have to feed them too..just like their pets.. thereby making it more expensive and offsetting the possibility that they might get them as a skill for free.

also..maybe your pet could be your mount also....just a thought.

Edited, Sep 14th 2006 at 2:38pm EDT by avanden

Edited, Sep 14th 2006 at 2:40pm EDT by avanden

The amount of effort that Blizzard would have to put into making mobs act one way when "wild", and another way entirely when "tamed" would probably be too much trouble for them to even want to attempt- not to mention it might break the world physics (much like trying to introduce flying mounts into Azeroth would). The developers didn't make the mobs initially with the intent to let them be mountable, so it would probably take a lot of work and testing before they could release that. Also, they'd have to modify the way the mob's physical framework interacts with the player's character when mounted, which means the models for the mountable animals would have to be overhauled.

When you mount your rideable animal now, I beleieve you become one unit, so that it's easier to direct- hence, you "appear" mounted, rather than getting on your mount.

As a mage lover, I ;d like to conjure a mount everytime i log in, and also being able to tame a pet for a hunter which is my Alt.

Because they have dodge bonus, which is good for AoE grinding. And if their cousin bloodelves can, why cant they be mages as well. Since way back then gay dwarves get to be mages, and there are still some left in Uldaman, Night Elves-which is the coolest race ever, should be mages. Its powerful,its respected,its popular, thats what nightelves are.=D

Ever heard of paladins and their free mounts?

Free Hunter mount or "free" would be great. To balance it, make it your active pet, so you can have either combat pet OR mount pet at a time
(Which might also give them an excuse to add more stable slots :D) So they would be usefull for traveling between towns or non-FP towns but the lock/pally/mage/priest/shaman/druid/war/rogues can't /wrists at blizz