I know all too well how tenious it is to level riding between alts - I do have eight characters to juggle after all. My two mains have their horses (finally9 maxed, the rest... are a bit behind. Some, a lot behind.

And still... I am wholly against the idea of sharing riding skills across alts!

We have shared dyes, and shared champion points, those are good ideas.

Shared anything else wouldn't be a good idea! Want it? Work for it on whatever alt you want it for!

So fu... uhm... forget the "gimme free stuff" crowd, and leave it as is.

The only thing that -might- be an improvement here could be letting daily riding lessions "stack", much like enlightment, so if someone can only afford to play on the weekends, they can learn a weeks worth of riding that way anyhow...

AbeSolum wrote: »

Also, can you respec mount skills?

Respecing mount skills may have been an issue back when you just had 50 points to divide among the three "feedings". Now that you can max all three with spending enough days... you just do that and ride your 60/60/60 horse after half a year riding lessions...

Personofsecrets wrote: »

Think of it like this. Regardless of the reason behind why players have to train multiple on each character, creating alts and, therefore, having a greater variety of fun experiences in this game would be stronger and more fun experience if all characters had access to the same riding skill.

Heck no.
The problem with the "gimme" crowd is that they want something without working for it, then complain the game doesn't have anything to work towards...
If you like games where you can plunge into the action at top speed right away, well, there are enough of those around. MMORPGs generally aren't that way, they are based on building up your character through effort - as in slow daily improvements... like... riding lessions!

Want something on a alt? Work for that something on that alt!

(and I am speaking as one who would benefit greatly from shared riding, with maxed horses on my mains, but some of my alts only with 30-odd points in riding skill...)

I might consider just how slow an improvement is "fun experience" - if one argued about that, I might admit that maybe spending 180 days daily effort to max a horse is a bit unfair to those people who work weekdays and can only play on weekends.
I'll never agree that people should just "share riding skills" account-wide. Or crafting research. Or skyshards. Or alliance rank. Or achievements. And yeah, I've seen threads from the "gimme crowd" asking for all of those...

We have c-points and dyes account wide. Also appereance options like costumes and horse skins. That is just the -right- amount of shared in my book...