Add more utility to creature mounts

Kashyyyk bantha mounts need a blanket under the saddle. It looks terrible and it's got to be painful to the poor banthas.

juspar said:

Mounts could do with some attention. Making them a vehicle alternative is not it. Its about picking their function in game and making them better at that narrow brief than a vehicle - which is in turn better in its specific role.

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Agreed, Having mounts run around at the same speed as swoops would look ridiculous.

I love mounts. I am confused about the disappearing when you dismount. They don't disappear. They either follow you or you can pet them to have them sit down or take a nap and wait for you to return. Nice way to not mess up your house! I do miss doing the flip trick while on my Kaadu and doing flips!

I would like some of the larger mounts to be able to sit more than one person!

So I just recently started playing on resto. Great server and I love it!

Here is my take on creature mounts...

As they are now, they are very cool looking, have some niche uses (RP, or where vehicles cannot be used), but are otherwise just taking up space in my datapad. Even though my main is a MCH, I don't generally use creature mounts, though I would love to if they had good utility.

My personal vision for what a creature mount should be is this:

1. Creature handlers should be able to use a mount as their preferred method of transportation. Maybe give a bonus to mount speed for MCH, not as fast as vehicles, but slightly faster than they are now. Ideal speed would be fast, but not so fast as to outrun our combat pets if they were following (see below).

2. Allow a MCH to have his combat pet out while riding a creature mount, just like riding as a passenger in someone else's vehicle (can't attack while mounted, etc). This would allow more functionality, and mobility when leveling combat pets and using pet supplements. Also, there would be a lot of "flavor" added to the game with this implementation, and I can't see a downside. I think it would look really cool to see a CH ride by on their mount, with their pet in tow.

3. Have mounts consume food. They could feed off of the food that already exists in game, or there could be a new food type added strictly for mounts, ex. "bale of hay" or "pile of viscera" depending on the mount type. The food could be the source of the increased movement speed in the form of a run speed buff, even though gallop already exists, it would be like gallop plus plus! Not sure the juice is worth the squeeze on this one, as the amount of work to code it all in would be huge. But it would be cool.