Does the imperial mount offer any increased starting stats??

Bigevilpeter · July 2015

Hi, I am curious about the imperial edition, I found quite a discount on it so a bought it. I noticed that its main bonuses are the imperial race+extras and the mount.

I want to know if the mount starts of with more speed or stamina or is it just a different look?

Also is the imperial gear bonus more of a transmog that can be accessed early game or is it a veteran level armor accessed later on.

The reason I'm asking before trying is that the game has a long way downloading and i want to know if i should refund and get the standard or not.

Aerius_Sygale · July 2015

...All mounts are aesthetic only now, they are just skins. Your stats for mounts are tied to your individual characters' "Riding Skills", it has been this way for, what, over four months now? Since mid March I think...

Xendyn · July 2015

Mounts are just skins so the benefit to that part isn't really a benefit anymore.
The Imperial gear is the ability to change any piece of gear at any level into the Imperial style (not sure if that applies to dropped set pieces)

The Imperial race itself isn't bad, a lot of people running those.

Rosveen · July 2015

Xendyn wrote: »

The Imperial race itself isn't bad, a lot of people running those.

Not bad? It's a top tier race.

Ourorboros · July 2015

No riding skill advantage to the Imperial horse, but it's nice to instantly have a mount for all characters at no cost. Jump on those daily trips to the stablemaster.

Korah_Eaglecry · July 2015

It would of been nice if they had left the different mounts with their increased stats so that you could have different horses for different purposes while maintaining the increase all stats sort of deal they have now. You could still switch between them and in general they would share the stat increases when a player bought them.

Simply put it would look like this.

Horse with Increased Speed.
75 - Speed
60 - Stamina
60 - Carry

Horse with Increased Stamina
60 - Speed
75 - Stamina
60 - Carry

Horse with Increased Carry
60 - Speed
60 - Stamina
75 - Carry

ZOS would still be able to cash in on new mount skins and the Training, and as an added bonus the Horses would become a gold sink again.

As it is now, theres no need to buy any of the in-game horses beyond the Imperial and the 20k horse unless you want your horse to look a specific way.

FancyTuna8 · July 2015

the motif, as in crafting/changing armor and weapons, is just a different cosmetic style. However, normally to be able to do it you'd have to find the rarest motif in the game, and possibly the rarest drop in the entire game.
The race choice itself is very nice, and starting with a horse, for all your characters on the server, is a nice bonus instead of waiting to save 10k just to get a horse and start training your character on it. The headstart of getting 10k worth of inventory/bank space quicker, plus training your riding skills for the days it would have taken to save 10k, is very nice. I am very thrify when it comes to digital content purchases, but Imperial is very worth it to me.

UrQuan · July 2015

Korah_Eaglecry wrote: »

It would of been nice if they had left the different mounts with their increased stats so that you could have different horses for different purposes while maintaining the increase all stats sort of deal they have now. You could still switch between them and in general they would share the stat increases when a player bought them.

Simply put it would look like this.

Horse with Increased Speed.
75 - Speed
60 - Stamina
60 - Carry

Horse with Increased Stamina
60 - Speed
75 - Stamina
60 - Carry

Horse with Increased Carry
60 - Speed
60 - Stamina
75 - Carry

ZOS would still be able to cash in on new mount skins and the Training, and as an added bonus the Horses would become a gold sink again.

As it is now, theres no need to buy any of the in-game horses beyond the Imperial and the 20k horse unless you want your horse to look a specific way.

With Crown store mounts now available, I understand why they didn't do this. Having different mounts available for different amounts of Crowns (bought with real money) with different stat boosts you start treading dangerously close to P2W. Much better to avoid that possibility by making them all the same. From one point of view, I find it unfortunate that we no longer have certain breeds of horse that are faster, or sturdier, or can carry more, and I find it unfortunate that all mounts have the "unlimited run" perk, rather than mounts of different species having different perks, as was originally planned, but better to make them all somewhat bland than risk P2W.

Bigevilpeter · July 2015

Thnx for the info guys, I think I will keep the game

If i'm getting imperial edition might as well use the imperial race. Can anyone tell me what is the best class for imperials?

Templar/Dragonkight? and which specialization is best?

Thank you

OzJohnD · July 2015

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Thnx for the info guys, I think I will keep the game

If i'm getting imperial edition might as well use the imperial race. Can anyone tell me what is the best class for imperials?

Templar/Dragonkight? and which specialization is best?

Thank you

this might help

http://deltiasgaming.com/2015/06/01/best-race-and-class-choices-in-the-elder-scrolls-online/

Cookiethief · July 2015

I'd say DK

Akavir_Sentinel · July 2015

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Thnx for the info guys, I think I will keep the game

If i'm getting imperial edition might as well use the imperial race. Can anyone tell me what is the best class for imperials?

Templar/Dragonkight? and which specialization is best?

Thank you

Can't go wrong with an Imperial DK tank.

Gyudan · July 2015

Korah_Eaglecry wrote: »

It would of been nice if they had left the different mounts with their increased stats so that you could have different horses for different purposes while maintaining the increase all stats sort of deal they have now. You could still switch between them and in general they would share the stat increases when a player bought them.

Simply put it would look like this.

Horse with Increased Speed.
75 - Speed
60 - Stamina
60 - Carry

Horse with Increased Stamina
60 - Speed
75 - Stamina
60 - Carry

Horse with Increased Carry
60 - Speed
60 - Stamina
75 - Carry

ZOS would still be able to cash in on new mount skins and the Training, and as an added bonus the Horses would become a gold sink again.

As it is now, theres no need to buy any of the in-game horses beyond the Imperial and the 20k horse unless you want your horse to look a specific way.

The change was for financial motives only.

If players had to spend 50 days feeding their mounts again, they wouldn't have bothered buying a new senche or a frost pony. ZoS couldn't afford reduced income, so they added this "awesome new riding skill system". Yay!

Bigevilpeter · July 2015

OzJohnD wrote: »

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Thnx for the info guys, I think I will keep the game

If i'm getting imperial edition might as well use the imperial race. Can anyone tell me what is the best class for imperials?

Templar/Dragonkight? and which specialization is best?

Thank you

this might help

http://deltiasgaming.com/2015/06/01/best-race-and-class-choices-in-the-elder-scrolls-online/

thnx that helps, apparently Imperial works for most classes, but the sorcerer!! Interesting

Bigevilpeter · July 2015

Thnx guys for the advice!!

Gamertaglemieux · July 2015

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Hi, I am curious about the imperial edition, I found quite a discount on it so a bought it. I noticed that its main bonuses are the imperial race+extras and the mount.

I want to know if the mount starts of with more speed or stamina or is it just a different look?

Also is the imperial gear bonus more of a transmog that can be accessed early game or is it a veteran level armor accessed later on.

The reason I'm asking before trying is that the game has a long way downloading and i want to know if i should refund and get the standard or not.

No difference. Just a horse that looks like Lone Ranger's Silver.

But I really like the game. So no complaints from me, plus Molag statue was pretty awesome.

starkerealm · July 2015

Rosveen wrote: »

Xendyn wrote: »

The Imperial race itself isn't bad, a lot of people running those.

Not bad? It's a top tier race.

They make for very beefy characters. It's, maybe, a little out of character for who they've been in the single player games, but ESO's Imperials are very tough.

starkerealm · July 2015

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

OzJohnD wrote: »

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Thnx for the info guys, I think I will keep the game

If i'm getting imperial edition might as well use the imperial race. Can anyone tell me what is the best class for imperials?

Templar/Dragonkight? and which specialization is best?

Thank you

this might help

http://deltiasgaming.com/2015/06/01/best-race-and-class-choices-in-the-elder-scrolls-online/

thnx that helps, apparently Imperial works for most classes, but the sorcerer!! Interesting

Imp Sorcs work for Tanking. Yes, I know, there's the whole, "well you can't tank as a sorc" garbage from Deltia.

EDIT: Also, stam build Sorc DPS are freakin' terrifying.

Rosveen · July 2015

Bigevilpeter wrote: »

Thnx for the info guys, I think I will keep the game

If i'm getting imperial edition might as well use the imperial race. Can anyone tell me what is the best class for imperials?

Templar/Dragonkight? and which specialization is best?

Thank you

Any tank, any stamina DPS. The reason sorcerers are less popular is because they have less synergy with stamina builds than other classes and so most people prefer magicka-oriented races.