Can We Please Talk About Default Mount Speed?

Vapirko

Seriously, you spend money or crowns on one of these mounts, and they run slower than you can. How does this make sense? Im pretty sure a giant wolf, horse or bear could outrun a human and it seems ridiculous that it doesn't at least offer some speed benefit right off the bat. In fact unless you spend crowns of training scrolls, it takes quite a long time for the mount to become worth the trouble of pushing whatever hotkey you have assigned to it.

Turelus

Might be a hold over from the days of the old mounts which started with 10 in a stat already.

However yes, I generally don't bother with my mount and just run until they're up to speed.

t3hdubzy

Agree. Ive thought about creating toons and leveling horses ahead of time, but the game updates would make this impossible because what you think maay be a good idea today will be trash tomorrow.

zaria

t3hdubzy wrote: »

Agree. Ive thought about creating toons and leveling horses ahead of time, but the game updates would make this impossible because what you think maay be a good idea today will be trash tomorrow.

An horse feeding character is an character who you plan to use on an later time but now only level horse, else act as an bank alt. Only set thing is look and race.

t3hdubzy

zaria wrote: »

t3hdubzy wrote: »

Agree. Ive thought about creating toons and leveling horses ahead of time, but the game updates would make this impossible because what you think maay be a good idea today will be trash tomorrow.

An horse feeding character is an character who you plan to use on an later time but now only level horse, else act as an bank alt. Only set thing is look and race.

Mmh
Well class look and race. Classes get balanced and racial passives will be om the chopping block eventually.

Graydon

I love my camel mount! He's dumb, makes funny noises, and runs like a camel.

Ferocious too.

t3hdubzy

Graydon wrote: »

I love my camel mount! He's dumb, makes funny noises, and runs like a camel.

Ferocious too.

Lol i use the camel only because i have it, i think it looks awkward tho. Lion is my fav.

zaria

t3hdubzy wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

t3hdubzy wrote: »

Agree. Ive thought about creating toons and leveling horses ahead of time, but the game updates would make this impossible because what you think maay be a good idea today will be trash tomorrow.

An horse feeding character is an character who you plan to use on an later time but now only level horse, else act as an bank alt. Only set thing is look and race.

Mmh
Well class look and race. Classes get balanced and racial passives will be om the chopping block eventually.

Yes, however this is making an NB just because you might want an NB sometime,
if not you wasted 60K on having and fast horse on an bank alt.
Racial passives will probably get nerfed some time but is unlikely to be swapped around.

KingYogi415

Graydon wrote: »

I love my camel mount! He's dumb, makes funny noises, and runs like a camel.

Ferocious too.

And you can spit on people who annoy you.

Cheers!

idk

Vapirko wrote: »

Seriously, you spend money or crowns on one of these mounts, and they run slower than you can. How does this make sense? Im pretty sure a giant wolf, horse or bear could outrun a human and it seems ridiculous that it doesn't at least offer some speed benefit right off the bat. In fact unless you spend crowns of training scrolls, it takes quite a long time for the mount to become worth the trouble of pushing whatever hotkey you have assigned to it.

60 upgrades to speed and they run fast. Riding lessons can be obtained from the crown store for an instant increase in speed.

WalksonGraves

They just want you to grind daily for 6 months per character is all.

Dragonking06

I find the speeds become bearable when the mount hits the 20 mark in the speed category. But even then, only just barely. 30 and up is a bit more comfortable, but nothing beats that feeling you get when you're sprinting at full pelt + Rapids across Cyro.

BigBragg

Once I hit level 10 I am off to Cyrodiil to get Rapid Manuver. I also use and love the add on 'Assist Rapid Riding' by @Cloudor .

Graydon

t3hdubzy wrote: »

Graydon wrote: »

I love my camel mount! He's dumb, makes funny noises, and runs like a camel.

Ferocious too.

Lol i use the camel only because i have it, i think it looks awkward tho. Lion is my fav.

I like the funny and harmless mounts. Seems like in this game most players like the undead firebreathng razor clawed dagger teeth mounts. Some are a bit silly.

Make more of the funny harmless mounts besides horses and I will keep purchasing.

Sakiri

What's the riding lesson cap?

Used to be 50 I think when I played last.

Dragonking06

Sakiri wrote: »

What's the riding lesson cap?

Used to be 50 I think when I played last.

It's 60 for each category.

Getting a full 60/60/60 though is a pain in the ass... x.x (Without the crowns riding lesson packs).

t3hdubzy

Graydon wrote: »

t3hdubzy wrote: »

Graydon wrote: »

I love my camel mount! He's dumb, makes funny noises, and runs like a camel.

Ferocious too.

Lol i use the camel only because i have it, i think it looks awkward tho. Lion is my fav.

I like the funny and harmless mounts. Seems like in this game most players like the undead firebreathng razor clawed dagger teeth mounts. Some are a bit silly.

Make more of the funny harmless mounts besides horses and I will keep purchasing.

Lile a mammoth? Or a giant?

Nebthet78

I understand your pain OP.

I don't mind the gold sink that is having to level up the riding skill in this thing, but I really wish they would allow us to do it whenever we want and all at once if we have the gold for it rather than doing it daily. I refuse to pay their prices in the crown store for the lessons.

Sakiri

Dragonking06 wrote: »

Sakiri wrote: »

What's the riding lesson cap?

Used to be 50 I think when I played last.

It's 60 for each category.

Getting a full 60/60/60 though is a pain in the ass... x.x (Without the crowns riding lesson packs).

Thank you. And yeah it sounds like a pain in the ass.

Used to be 50 total.

Good to know.

teladoy

What I find ridiculous is that for every new character you have to feed your mount for 180 days or ... buy it with real money that is not cheap.

ofSunhold

Vapirko wrote: »

How does this make sense?

It doesn't. It's a clump of holdovers from previous ways of doing things that add up to a wad of frustrating suck.

Draxys

I can stand the speed, at least with rapid maneuvers up.

However, what I cannot stand is my tiger stubbing its toes ON EVERY FREAKING BLADE OF GRASS. The movement over terrain needs to be fixed, it's so frustrating to try and ride to a fight in pvp but it takes twice as long because the mounts get caught up on the terrain every 2 seconds.

max_only

While you're riding your mount through the newb areas I'll be picking up those sweet sweet mats faster than you can dismount. mounts in pve are just decoration. That said, I like a little bling which is why I happily fleeced myself for an elk. :insert elk scream here:

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

Vapirko wrote: »

Seriously, you spend money or crowns on one of these mounts, and they run slower than you can. How does this make sense? Im pretty sure a giant wolf, horse or bear could outrun a human and it seems ridiculous that it doesn't at least offer some speed benefit right off the bat. In fact unless you spend crowns of training scrolls, it takes quite a long time for the mount to become worth the trouble of pushing whatever hotkey you have assigned to it.

60 upgrades to speed and they run fast. Riding lessons can be obtained from the crown store for an instant increase in speed.

They made getting a new horse slower then they were at launch and you wouldn't have to pay real money to use the horse. The time it takes to upgrade a horse without crowns is like a moble game.

AFrostWolf

What I really hate is that you need Rapid's from the alliance war on your skillbar at all times in order to achieve Fastest possible speed. Like the skill is useful in it's own way, but I really hate having to take up a skill lot in order to move around the word at top speed. They need to remove the buff it gives to horses and add that into the game and increase the base speed of the mounts.

idk

WalksonGraves wrote: »

They just want you to grind daily for 6 months per character is all.

Maybe we should go back to how it was and it only took 2 months to max out a mount.

Browiseth

they're only babies at level 0

SydneyGrey

Vapirko wrote: »

Seriously, you spend money or crowns on one of these mounts, and they run slower than you can. How does this make sense? Im pretty sure a giant wolf, horse or bear could outrun a human and it seems ridiculous that it doesn't at least offer some speed benefit right off the bat. In fact unless you spend crowns of training scrolls, it takes quite a long time for the mount to become worth the trouble of pushing whatever hotkey you have assigned to it.

LOL. I know, right? When you first start a character, they can literally run faster than a horse.

Vapirko

Browiseth wrote: »

they're only babies at level 0

Well then we shouldn't be able to ride them at all and instead spend several irl years gently coaxing them to adult hood. Or 50000 crowns.

Kiralyn2000

Eh, even at starting speed, they let you sprint forever (outside combat) without draining your character's stamina.


(and how important is a full 60/60/60, anyway? It's not like that mount isn't useful at all before 180 days is up....)

Coolio_Wolfus

IMO base riding speed should at least match base player sprint speed.

Sprinting on a mount with riding speed but not riding stamina will deplete the mount's stamina as does getting hit whilst riding.