Half the fun of being at the back of the pack and getting ganked , we've all been there

Why should it be in from the beginning? I don't get why everyone expects everything from the beginning. it needs leveling like everything else in the game, and it takes seconds to do!

It couldn't be easier to upgrade your mount in Cyro, a port back to base each day for the upgrade. Two months and you have topped out - it will take that long to level skills and abilities and learn the game. Slow mounts never killed anyone, sure they maybe turn the tide of battle but the L10's you are talking about are unlikely to make a huge difference.

Or for a couple of quid you can upgrade via Crown store, if you are an instant gratification type.

Sometimes I think back to the times, where horses were only capable to be fed up to 60 points each. So players often decided to make their PvP horse more stamina- than speed oriented, while the other ones were carry only. Now you can max out all of the stats, fortunately...

Perhaps it would be nice to have something similar to what was available at the start of this game, where you could buy various horses for different purposes and have less of that "horse-simulator" going on in Cyrodiil. But that could be problematic in terms of progression, which is an essential part of an MMO (like it or not). Also would it give an incentive to many players to hop around between factions willy nilly, we already have enough problems with opportunists.

Make your alts, train their horses.

I still remember the glorious beta PvP, with most of us running afoot, grasping at the hems of those lordly few who had aquired a mount...

Beardimus wrote: »

Why should it be in from the beginning? I don't get why everyone expects everything from the beginning. it needs leveling like everything else in the game, and it takes seconds to do!

It couldn't be easier to upgrade your mount in Cyro, a port back to base each day for the upgrade. Two months and you have topped out - it will take that long to level skills and abilities and learn the game. Slow mounts never killed anyone, sure they maybe turn the tide of battle but the L10's you are talking about are unlikely to make a huge difference.

Or for a couple of quid you can upgrade via Crown store, if you are an instant gratification type.

I think the issue as i see it is that the starting mount speed is incredibly slow. You can use speed buffs, sprint, charge, and teleport faster than riding a mount for probably half the time you have to spend upgrading, which is like 30 days (assuming you can log in every day). Its very inconvenient if you want to pvp. You cant keep up with large groups, are more vulnerable to ganks, and its significantly harder to make it to a keep before a fight is over.

And a level 10 is definitely useful, if for nothing else but to fire siege.

I think they just need to raise the minimum speed of mounts to be more in line with speed buffs. Maybe turn the speed upgrades into a curve, so the first upgrades are large speed boosts while later upgrades are more deminished.

Dont get me wrong, Im all for progression, but I remember as a starting player it was hard to justify putting gold into tedious mount upgrades when I could just throw on boundless storm (before it changed) or maneuvers and sprint at 40% speed (by comparison, 40 days of mount investments seems far less intuitive as an option).

Combating the slow horse in Cyro = your right of passage into Cyro...
While I would like to see trained horses account wide instead of toon based but i think its silly to just give some one something for nothing but I still wouldn't post a forum post and nag about demanding I get something for nothing.

Also, crown store... don't take a toon into pvp with less than 30% speed or remain slow and train like most and learn to counter the gankers (always a bright side to everything)