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Cambo_99
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Not sure if this has been brought up before. Since it's close to Halloween, can't there be something more unique like a broomstick mount? It doesn't even have to fly high like ones in shows, movies, etc. It can just be the same as a standard mount but just have it hover above the ground.
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    A vacuum would be better.


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  • ThePrinceOfBargains
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    This is not Harry Potter; that would look completely ridiculous. They’re already pushing past the boundaries with skeletal mounts.
    Edited by ThePrinceOfBargains on September 29, 2017 4:39AM
  • Cambo_99
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    No one said anything about Harry Potter, plus, Harry Potter isn't the only thing broomsticks come from lol. But just imagine a zerg of broomsticks making its way through Cyrodiil. And how exactly are they pushing past the boundaries?
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    It would still be affected by the movement speed bugs, even though it wouldnt trip on a pebble
  • magicsprout
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    Hell yeah
  • newtinmpls
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    Mojmir wrote: »
    it wouldnt trip on a pebble

    Hmmmm...I think it would
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    Cambo_99 wrote: »
    No one said anything about Harry Potter, plus, Harry Potter isn't the only thing broomsticks come from lol. But just imagine a zerg of broomsticks making its way through Cyrodiil. And how exactly are they pushing past the boundaries?

    Some people are so obsessed with fake lore they forget it's a game with "magic"

    Nothing in lore is pushing the boundaries when magic is real. Hell they say no dragon well I'm pretty sure they could summon a magic dragon to ride on it, not a real one and it would not break lore bc MAGIC!

    And I'm pretty sure a mage in TES universe can make a damn broom float
    Edited by FloppyTouch on September 29, 2017 5:12AM
  • S1ipperyJim
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    but... mah immershun
  • Cadbury
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  • ProfessorKittyhawk
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    I liked the broom stick mount they had in FFXIV a few years ago. But what I really want is a unicorn.
  • Maythor
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    I'd buy a broomstick and a Unicorn!
  • ThePrinceOfBargains
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    Cambo_99 wrote: »
    No one said anything about Harry Potter, plus, Harry Potter isn't the only thing broomsticks come from lol. But just imagine a zerg of broomsticks making its way through Cyrodiil. And how exactly are they pushing past the boundaries?
    Ignoring the absurdity of it? Because a hundred people flying around with broomsticks is corny. I’m not a lore-fanatic and this game in its current state is already the furthest thing from “immersive”, so that’s not really the issue. The issue is that that this, no offense, would be stupid. In the same way driving cars would be.
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    This isn't Harry Potter
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    TheMaster wrote: »
    This is not Harry Potter; that would look completely ridiculous. They’re already pushing past the boundaries with skeletal mounts.

    But can we get a new Battleground mode called Quidditch? ;)
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    A few of the mounts are already gimmicky and look absurd, the clockwork spider for one. I think there's enough games out there with gimmicky stuff be better if they could keep things a bit more grounded (grounded in context of a magic based more game la la.la i know i know)
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    Cambo_99 wrote: »
    Not sure if this has been brought up before...
    It has.
    Numerous times.
    Together with carpets, and driftdisks, and meditation pillows, and floating thrones...

    (Yeah, at least three times I can remember posting something along those lines myself)

    I may not have thought about a floating mortar though, so apology to all Baba Yaga fans!
    Cadbury wrote: »
    A vacuum would be better...
    Not in medieval-ish tamriel it wouldn't!
    TheMaster wrote: »
    This is not Harry Potter...
    ...you are aware that Ms.Rowlings was not the first to come up with the idea, right?

    It's quite a bit older, dating back to -surprise- the late middle ages and myths about -gasp- witches! Witches who as rumor had it would use their besoms to fly to the blocksberg on walpurgisnacht, to have a little party involving unholy rites, general deviancy and maybe also demonic trysts... and possibly every other night they just felt like it as well.

    (Although, in a world lacking magic it is considered way more likely all those rumours were more likely accounts from very much hallucinating "witches" which had indulged in some psychoactive "flying" ointment, and the broomstick was the... uhmn... applier. For internal application. Apologies, but forum rules prevent me from being more clear on the point - look it up :p The following drug-boosted partying and other devient behavoir on the other hand was possibly true!)

    The mundane explenation aside... it would fit right in with most magic-powered fantasy settings, and ESO is no exception to that. There -are- flying/levitating spells in the elder scrolls universe, as anyone who played TES:Morrowind may remember... so it is not too far a stretch of the imagination to assume some enterprising mage may successfully enchant something with such spells. Even a broom.
    Maythor wrote: »
    I'd buy a broomstick and a Unicorn!
    ...but you can -only- ride the unicorn if you never ever engaged in ERP, 'kay? :p;)
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    *makes mental notes to use "this isn't Harry Potter" in future as a trigger*

    Personally I am against it because although we cane expand the lore for ESO it doesn't really fit the TES series. The TES series isn't set around witches or wizards who have pointy hats, long noses and brooms they fly on.
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    @Turelus

    Nothing wrong with Harry Potter. Harry Potter is grand. As is Mrs Rowlings bank account probably.
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  • ThePrinceOfBargains
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    TheShadowScout wrote: »
    Cambo_99 wrote: »
    Not sure if this has been brought up before...
    It has.
    Numerous times.
    Together with carpets, and driftdisks, and meditation pillows, and floating thrones...

    (Yeah, at least three times I can remember posting something along those lines myself)

    I may not have thought about a floating mortar though, so apology to all Baba Yaga fans!
    Cadbury wrote: »
    A vacuum would be better...
    Not in medieval-ish tamriel it wouldn't!
    TheMaster wrote: »
    This is not Harry Potter...
    ...you are aware that Ms.Rowlings was not the first to come up with the idea, right?

    It's quite a bit older, dating back to -surprise- the late middle ages and myths about -gasp- witches! Witches who as rumor had it would use their besoms to fly to the blocksberg on walpurgisnacht, to have a little party involving unholy rites, general deviancy and maybe also demonic trysts... and possibly every other night they just felt like it as well.

    (Although, in a world lacking magic it is considered way more likely all those rumours were more likely accounts from very much hallucinating "witches" which had indulged in some psychoactive "flying" ointment, and the broomstick was the... uhmn... applier. For internal application. Apologies, but forum rules prevent me from being more clear on the point - look it up :p The following drug-boosted partying and other devient behavoir on the other hand was possibly true!)

    The mundane explenation aside... it would fit right in with most magic-powered fantasy settings, and ESO is no exception to that. There -are- flying/levitating spells in the elder scrolls universe, as anyone who played TES:Morrowind may remember... so it is not too far a stretch of the imagination to assume some enterprising mage may successfully enchant something with such spells. Even a broom.

    I’m well aware of this. However, the stereotype of witches cackling in the moonlight with their broomsticks only adds to the absurdity of this already-absurd suggestion. As I said earlier, it’s just corny and it doesn’t belong in the Elder Scrolls. Just because you can explain something away with a ton of reaching doesn’t mean it should be in.
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    Feanor wrote: »
    @Turelus

    Nothing wrong with Harry Potter. Harry Potter is grand. As is Mrs Rowlings bank account probably.

    Meh. She's no Jill Murphy...
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    They really opened up pandoras box with these silly mounts from crates. in a year or two this game will look like a circus. It's how it always goes with MMOs that try to make money off of mount collectors; it's never weird enough, they always want more.
    Edited by FoolishHuman on September 29, 2017 5:13PM
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    I just want that crappy lvl 1, 2h broom from April fools to be converted into a skin for a staff.
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    I'm happy to ride anything silly.
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    Turelus wrote: »
    *makes mental notes to use "this isn't Harry Potter" in future as a trigger*

    Personally I am against it because although we cane expand the lore for ESO it doesn't really fit the TES series. The TES series isn't set around witches or wizards who have pointy hats, long noses and brooms they fly on.

    Well we've already got pointy hats, curly hats, ostentatious robes, and bubbling cauldrons, so our heads are already in the rabbit hole.
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    Witches in Elder Scrolls are more likely to turn into a crow than fly on a broom. Or use your guts as garlands
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    Maythor wrote: »
    I'd buy a broomstick and a Unicorn!

    to make the unicorn fly you'd have to stick the broomstick up it's a-hole
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    FoolishHuman wrote: »
    They really opened up pandoras box with these silly mounts from crates. in a year or two this game will look like a circus. It's how it always goes with MMOs that try to make money off of mount collectors; it's never weird enough, they always want more.

    Elephants, especially pastel colored elephants, are coming.
    I can feel it.
    It's just a matter of time.

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    Edited by twev on September 29, 2017 6:28PM
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    I prefer a Boomstick...
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  • Sygil05
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    I wanted to chime in to agree with many of the others - I think this is a bad idea because it will make this game look even more ridiculous than it already does. I already cringe when I see that stupid dwarven spider mount running around Cyrodiil, I don't think we need any more gimmicky mounts any time soon.
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    Only if it comes with coconuts.

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