To me they don’t feel fitting as mounts, at least not in ESO, not for a corporeal rider. All the more so if armor/clothing clips, as do robes and gowns. Of course you wouldn’t be able to sit on the mount that way in such outfits, but a transparent mount only serves to highlight the issue!

I don't like this, but it looks hilarious and makes me giggle

As for their body texture, I prefer mounts like those from Psijic Crates. They don't simply have transparent body - they have waves of light moving over their bodies. It is very satisfying to watch, reminds me of lava lamps.



Gloam Wolf, for example, has simple transparent body - so for me, it only looks good at night (thanks to his subtle purple glow):



How he looks during the day



I made this picture back when this wolf was released:



You can see how white wolf has thick parts of white light over his body, while black wolf is simply transparent

I like some of them, but I'm not going to like or dislike a mount just because it's transparent, it also depends on how it looks overall.

I bought the ghost deer and the only reason I'm disappointed by that is shortly afterwards a ghost indrik was available in-game which is almost identical. If I'd known that was coming I'd have saved my money. But I still use both, it just feels a bit redundant now.

I like some of the others too, but not enough to pay the cost, deal with gambling mechanics and whatever other barriers ZOS put in the way. The Summerset CE horse doesn't fit any of my characters and I don't like the way it's constantly leaking red whisps. I got the yellow version from a free crate and that's ok, but I wouldn't have paid for it. I'd probably have gotten the gloam wolf if it didn't involve buying huge numbers of crates to get the gems.

Experience says that any cosmetic needs to match your character more than anything else.

More the question does the mount suit your character.

Aptonoth wrote: »

Yes we need more ghostly mounts its kind of shocking the only ghost mount is an elk. You would have thought a transparent spirit crate for Halloween would have been a shoe in.

There WAS a horse, but it was available for a mere blink.

I do not like them. How can one even ride on something that is not really manifest at all?

I dislike disco mounts in general, but everything that looks like a floating saddle is especially ridiculous for me.

Kiyakotari wrote: »

Lugaldu wrote: »

I do not like them. How can one even ride on something that is not really manifest at all?

Well, I mean, we also regularly fight spirits in this game. By that logic we should just be spending our questing time sitting around having tea and crumpets and chatting with our new buddies, Mirri and Bastion, ignoring those annoying but insubstantial ghosts making noise down in the mine with us, before heading back to those skittish villagers and collecting our duly-earned gold.

I have so many questions about some of the really dark implications about the spirit world in this game.

Killing ghosts, for one thing. Let's assume our weapons are enchanted and we're deconstituting spirits. Weird that there's a lootable corpse but that's a sidebar issue. Are we just going around destroying souls willynilly? Are all those ghost bandits and what-have-you we encounter just gone forever when we're done with them? That's messed up, man.

Speaking of messed up, soul gems. We're trapping souls and using them to fuel our weapons and resurrect ourselves. You know how many soul gems I have? Thousands. Every player toon in this game is a dark necromancer to surpass any NPC villain. We are all monsters, history's greatest monsters! Why are we the protagonists?!

Catch me derailing my own thread with Ghost Thoughts.

It depends on how glowy they are. If they are really glowy like the Psijic apexes, I think they're nice. I do not like the ghost mounts that are just white and transparent, and the gloam stuff only looks good at night.

Yes, love them. They are quite unique.