In all honesty, I see pro's and con's to both systems.
I'm a little disappointed that I can no longer customize each of my horses, and this makes each one feel less unique.
It forced you to make a real choice; do I want the extra bag space, or my horse to go faster? Will I use this horse for pvp, or adventuring?

What really concerns me is that if horses traits are account wide, doesn't that mean that every single character gets the inventory buff? That's up to 8 inventory spaces for 250 gold!

Maybe I'm just sad that I know in the future, the traits I have for my horse are going to be exactly the same as everyone else's.

EDIT: Horse effects are character wide, not account wide, so my concerns are obsolete!

To me I like that I can just snag all traits and focus on collecting the different mount styles. But what can I say, I'm a big mount and costume nub.

I vastly prefer the new system. I do see why some people would prefer the old one, but I like the new one so much better.

Terminus wrote: »

What really concerns me is that if horses traits are account wide, doesn't that mean that every single character gets the inventory buff? That's up to 8 inventory spaces for 250 gold!

They're not: the horses are shared across the account, but this only means that if you have a brown horse on one character, all characters can use the brown horse. The traits are on each individual character as their riding skill.

lifthrasir85 wrote: »

I voted for the new system. But it should say:
"I prefer the new system, with traits bound to the character."

They are NOT accountwide. Skins are.

Yes, this.

Valen_Byte wrote: »

First thing I noticed when I logged onto the PTS was that my black horse has saddle bags.

I purposely did not lvl the carry capacity, because I hate the way the bags look. Now every horse I have, will have bags. Maybe if they didn't look so horrible, maybe a redesign or the option to have them not show.

Yep this is dumb. Those bags look terrible, and I have a mule mount and an actual speed mount for this reason. Please make this a removable feature ZOS.

I love this change to be honest, I was very disappointed in early game days when I worked out you couldn't unlock straps/face armor/bags all on the same horse. Performance is dandy but if my horse isn't pretty enough it's all for naught.

In seriousness I dig the change and am glad to be able to get some extra bag space. Fingers crossed for them to add in a mammoth mount

I prefer the new system, but for some reason my horse disappeared after playing on the PTS server for a few hours. What's up with that?

It's not 150 riding traits its 180 riding traits, the limit is currently 60 per riding skill on PTS.

I love it, but agree that the option of what shows (straps, bags…) should be user modifiable in the options screen along the lines of "show helm".

I really liked the sleek look of my fast horse in PvP over my bag laden farming mount I use for the casual Sunday morning jaunts through Upper Crag.

I just wish they would have told me before I bought several horses at 42K per. Even if they would have said something back when they announced 1.6 last year I would have stopped buying for each character.
Yes I get 10% bonus apparently but that does not makeup for the huge gold expenditure.
And the fact that I only get something like 7K if I sell them.

gj on this one devs.

CodexMMO wrote: »

Thank you for the pic! How do we spawn horses, pets, etc...now? Is it still H for horses? What is it for pets in our collection?

Not a problem. Yes, still H for horses, and to pick which one you use, you just right click on the picture in the menu and choose Set Active. The menu for Pets looks exactly the same (costumes as well). Just right click, select Set Active and off you go with your chosen pet / costume. It's actually very nice.

Why do people keep saying it is account bound? My NB and my Templar have different horse stats. If it were account bound they would be the same.

I'm curious about how the expensive horses will work. Does the fast horse still get a 10% speed boost over all the others? Or is that all gone? Was my 47k for that fast horse just a waste now?

It kinda sucks at the end of it all we'll basically be riding the same horses, no differentiation with all the skills maxed. Also blows to be losing a LOT of 42k horses. I don't mind that I paid for the horse upgrades that translates to the new skill but keeping one and losing 8 is a lot of chaching.

Can those skills be upgraded at the same time? (Upgrade speed, stam and capacity by 1 each day) Or is it choose one per day?

Spending 120 days to reach max when I can currently level 2 horses in 50 days and swap them out would suck. (I'm only concerned with speed and stamina)

There are some things I don't like about 1.6 but this isn't one of them.

I do like the changes they are making to mounts.