Buying Mounts

Shardaxx

I really wish I'd bought the black senche panther when it was on sale, someone told me you can contact support to purchase mounts so I put a ticket in but was told that I can't buy a mount not currently on sale.

Do old mounts come back into the crown store? It seems crazy ZOS won't take my money for something like this.

Turelus

Sadly no you can't get mounts you missed.

They do come back sometimes, but it's either in the Crown Crates or very far apart.

Shardaxx

I've never bought any crown crates and not sure how it works, what's my chances of getting this mount that way?

Asardes

They usually put old "out of stock" cosmetic items in crown crates so people end up spending more on them in the end. I don't know if the mount you are referring to is included in the crown crate list, but others surely are.

Shardaxx

Anyone have a link to what's in the crown crates currently?

MarkusLiberty

The black Sench is in the crown crates right now, so you could try for that. Alternatively you could always get the Black Lion, which is currently available in the store for a limited time

newtinmpls

Shardaxx wrote: »

I've never bought any crown crates and not sure how it works, what's my chances of getting this mount that way?

You always have the famous two chances: "slim" and "none"

Eocosa

Randomaly getting it is pretty small, I know someone has done the research and I wouldn't be surprised if it was 1% or so.

However, and this is never a popular answer, but th crates ARE slightly less then straight lottery tickets. As you get items you don't want you can break them down and get gems which can be used to buy items in the crates. The themed mounts are 400, I believe the one you want is 100.

Admittedly to get the 100 it'll probably cost upwards of 10,000 crowns (around $40 with the current sale), which is kind of rough, but if it's worth it to ya then it's worth it to ya and don't let anyone ever talk you down!

Shardaxx

I had a look at the black lion but its not right for me. Sounds like I'd waste a lot of money on crates, I'll be patient and just wait to see if it comes back on sale. Thanks for the replies guys.

Wrekkedd

Eocosa wrote: »

Randomaly getting it is pretty small, I know someone has done the research and I wouldn't be surprised if it was 1% or so.

However, and this is never a popular answer, but th crates ARE slightly less then straight lottery tickets. As you get items you don't want you can break them down and get gems which can be used to buy items in the crates. The themed mounts are 400, I believe the one you want is 100.

Admittedly to get the 100 it'll probably cost upwards of 10,000 crowns (around $40 with the current sale), which is kind of rough, but if it's worth it to ya then it's worth it to ya and don't let anyone ever talk you down!

Holy that last paragraph is a little insane. You will EASILY get 100 gems from 5500 crowns. If not maybe 5900...but definitely not that much. Generally you will get 300 or so for 11000 crowns.

Shardaxx

Had a thought on this - since they seem to be marketing Morrowind like its a new game rather than an expansion, they are clearly trying to attract new players so they might put a lot of the old mounts and stuff back in the crown store to give new players a chance to choose from the wider range. Fingers crossed.

Kodrac

Shardaxx wrote: »

Had a thought on this - since they seem to be marketing Morrowind like its a new game rather than an expansion, they are clearly trying to attract new players so they might put a lot of the old mounts and stuff back in the crown store to give new players a chance to choose from the wider range. Fingers crossed.

No, they'll add new things to the store. Old things return through the crates.

Shardaxx

We'll see by June.

idk

Some items have come back to the crown store for brief periods but probably looked at what's available via the crates is best but that's a costly way to go.

I'd suggest waiting for something else you like.

Damianos

Shardaxx wrote: »

Anyone have a link to what's in the crown crates currently?

While in game you can go to crown crates and preview what is available in them for you to have a chance to get.

flguy147ub17_ESO

A black sabre cat has been datamined so i am sure it will be on the crown store soon if that interest you. Here is the link: https://elderscrolls.net/2017/01/04/18202-tes-online-budushhee-kronnogo-magazina-patch-2-7-0/4/

0rnge

This is the third time the black senche has returned to the crown store. It was avaliable on PC servers before console release and they brought it back on all servers a few months later so all players could have a chance to buy it. I wouldn't count on it making a 4th appearance anytime soon!

O_LYKOS

I'm told all the time you can put in a ticket and purchase stuff...sadly no. It's lies

Danikat

O_LYKOS wrote: »

I'm told all the time you can put in a ticket and purchase stuff...sadly no. It's lies

I've seen people claim it happened, but usually only when something has just been removed and when there were extenuating circumstances. For example someone who missed an item that was on sale for 48 hours because a storm took out their internet connection. They used their phone to contact Support and have the crowns removed from their account and the item added.

Admittedly I don't know for sure it's true, but it seems like an odd thing to lie about.

But it does seem unlikely they'd allow people to buy things which were removed weeks or months ago, because that would defeat the point of removing them (which is to drive up sales through artificial scarcity), and especially items which are currently in the crown crates - because then no one would buy crates.

AlienatedGoat

Shardaxx wrote: »

Had a thought on this - since they seem to be marketing Morrowind like its a new game rather than an expansion, they are clearly trying to attract new players so they might put a lot of the old mounts and stuff back in the crown store to give new players a chance to choose from the wider range. Fingers crossed.

Why would ZOS do that? They've been trying to push these casino crates for ages. Surely they'd just rather trump up the casino crates even more and make them seem like the norm for all the new people, instead of pushing more stuff to the store that you can buy outright (gasp what a concept!).

Rosveen

O_LYKOS wrote: »

I'm told all the time you can put in a ticket and purchase stuff...sadly no. It's lies

Here's why: https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/5j6aix/psa_about_crown_store_items/

I don't know if it ever actually worked or not, but it doesn't anymore.

Shardaxx

Phage wrote: »

Shardaxx wrote: »

Had a thought on this - since they seem to be marketing Morrowind like its a new game rather than an expansion, they are clearly trying to attract new players so they might put a lot of the old mounts and stuff back in the crown store to give new players a chance to choose from the wider range. Fingers crossed.

Why would ZOS do that? They've been trying to push these casino crates for ages. Surely they'd just rather trump up the casino crates even more and make them seem like the norm for all the new people, instead of pushing more stuff to the store that you can buy outright (gasp what a concept!).

I'm guessing here, but ZOS might try to meet the expectations of new players, and that's to buy the mount of their choice. The crates seem like a huge waste of money with only a chance of getting what you want, I doubt many news players would be impressed they have to try for mounts this way, especially when they realise that if they had been playing the game earlier, they could have just bought what they wanted. New players will expect the same options as original eso players have had, coming to a game late shouldn't automatically penalise anyone.

Graydon

Shardaxx wrote: »

I really wish I'd bought the black senche panther when it was on sale, someone told me you can contact support to purchase mounts so I put a ticket in but was told that I can't buy a mount not currently on sale.

Do old mounts come back into the crown store? It seems crazy ZOS won't take my money for something like this.

Thank you for being part of the group submitting useless support tickets and creating more trash for the team to sift. Adding longer waits and frustration to legitimate tickets.

Carbonised

Shardaxx wrote: »

I really wish I'd bought the black senche panther when it was on sale, someone told me you can contact support to purchase mounts so I put a ticket in but was told that I can't buy a mount not currently on sale.

Do old mounts come back into the crown store? It seems crazy ZOS won't take my money for something like this.

For what it's worth, now that we had a Crown sale, I tried my luck with the gambling boxes for the black senche, since it's the only one I missed that I simply had to had.

I'm not a fan of the boxes - at all - and I have made several comments about it here. I've also never bought any of these boxes before.

However, with the current sale, and the prospects of never getting the black senche to accompany my black lion, I had a go and bought 15 boxes for 5k Crowns.

I didn't end up with the senche directly, but luckily I got enough junk from the crates to turn into gems, and bought it with the gems, and even had some gems to spare.

On top of that, I got 3 pets (including the moth swarm), 1 Wild Hunt mount (that i didn't really care about, I was after the senche), 1 Hircine statue, 1 Hircine banner and a large amount of random stuff such as costumes, mementoes and tattoos.

All in all, I'm very happy with my purchase.
5,000 Crowns (on sale):
- Black Senche
- Wild Hunt mount
- 3 pets
- Hircine statue + banner
- Random other stuff

Would I have bought the crates without a Crown sale? Probably not.
Would I have bought crates to try and get an Apex mount (wild hunt) instead of the tier below? Probably not.
Would I have bought crates without the crown conversion feature? Probably not.
Will I ever buy crates again? Probably not. Unless they put something must-have in there. Which they will probably do =F

Anywho, just thought I'd throw it out there. With the gem conversion you should have a reasonable chance for the black senche.

Shardaxx

Update: they haven't closed my ticket yet, and are considering my request. Fingers crossed!

Shardaxx

So they finally told me they won't sell me a mount that's currently in the crown crates. I'll wait for it to cycle out and try again, or maybe it will come back on sale. Disappointing but half expected.