I want to buy the fancy horse blanket.

Heartrage wrote: »

Still, it was memorable. I remember how great it was to get my first mount in wow. Eso was way worst at first when you had to level mounts individually then got better with the current system.

Eso mounting skill is a chore, wow mounts were an achievement.

Getting a mount always felt so much more rewarding in WoW and it was a huge incentive to replay dungeons and raids for them, as well for doing achievements. Riding a rare mount really meant something, like Invincible Reigns which I never looted.

There is no such feeling in ESO, unfortunately.

I'll be wrapping up my last 5 characters upgrades in a couple of weeks. Itll be a relief to have all 18 characters mount upgrades behind me.

I believe they were going to upgrade the system but it never happened as they went free to play and priorities changed

duagloth wrote: »

Cyrodiil,farming nodes, it makes a huge difference.
The design itself of a time gate is absurd and i think its a bad lazy design. Not needed and needs to be redone.

Make it 100gold a day, and 1000 gold ever next upgrade if you wsnt to skip the day wait

Leftover_Pizza wrote: »

SammyKhajit wrote: »

It’s part of the mini game called Grind.

I don't mind a grind, but this is no grind by far. This is just a stupid time gated 'feature' in this game that holds no purpose.

Just like every similar feature in MMOs for decades, "time gate" IS the purpose.

What the secretly hidden super advantage of fully leveled riding skills?

To me personally none as do not use mounts at all in my gameplay.I prefer running around and not having to dismount to harvest or fight.

I do park my newbies at Vivec City to upgrade the capacity of the alts inventory for 60 days but then they are done with this rather unnecessary grind.

The super secret advantage is you get to experience the joy of launching yourself off a cliff in Orsinium at mach 5 when you're not paying attention.

I think that over the years I've been able to level up the mounts on perhaps 5 characters, so yes..it is long, very long.

The advantages are the following:
- PvP Cyrodiil -> If it's a PvP character, you'll need speed and stamina at high levels
- PvE raids -> Not needed -> No horse riding is really applicable outside of Hel Ra Citadel (it's only like 200 metres of riding)
- Node farming/surveys -> Only needed on one character who has the right CP for gathering nodes/surveys
- Mules/hoarding characters -> You'll want the inventory capacity high -> The rest you don't care about

So it's mostly situational, don't feel the need to level up everything on each character as each one can do a specific task.
Also making speed builds for node/survey farming is useful. I spend a lot of time on foot when doing those with a 175% sprint speed bonus.

It's a strange system which is slow and not very enticing to do as the stables have remained static for over 8 years with no changes what so ever..you guessed it...because of the crown store

Super secret advantage?

Not getting dismounted in PvP unless you're riding forever and not once caring about your stamina pool.
Getting 60 extra inventory slots so your inner loot hoarder can carry more without the banker assistant, or if you need to carry siege, potions, food, extra sets, RP fun stuff, etc.
And move pretty fast wherever you need to be without trouble. Can go even slightly after after the Major Gallop buff with the Green CP star that makes you go faster while mounted.

I have a nearly fully leveled mount. Only one. On my main. The ride is glorious. Very fast, don't seem to need or use stam. No mobs bother it. It's my favorite to ride. I think the stam level makes it ride better.

I really wish we could buy more than one training per day. I wish we could choose level 1 space, 1 speed and 1 stam a day if we wanted. It's a needlessly tedious grind to build a horse over half a year. I mean, it really is stupidly ridiculous. MMO or not.

But mounts in this game are poorly done. They're half dead when you get them. It's literally faster to run until at least 15 days of speed, even with the assault passive it's still not that good. Truly. In GW2 you could grind and get a damn flying dragon. A FLYING DRAGON. Sure it was a grid, But it was worth it! Where's my freaking dragon? Eh? Where is it ZOS ??? IF GW2 can do it, surely you can. And I'm not talking about some crown store *** either. LOL

Fennwitty wrote: »

Those things used to be tied TO THE INDIVIDUAL MOUNT.

Think about that, you buy a new horse, it's effectively useless for 60+ days.

But yes people in fact do spend money on it because they're impatient.

Didn't we also have to feed mounts specific food to level up a specific attribute back at launch like apples? I don't miss the individual mount leveling at all, in fact I wish my mount level on my main applied to alts too at this point.

Back in my day I leveled up each mount individually. Had six horses - every mount in the game at that time. I had three mounts with a maxed out stat each, and then the other three were used for cosmetics, as you had to have at least 20 in a skill for the visuals to change on the mount.

It wasn't as bad as one might imagine, however, because each horse had a lower max level (one could not max out all three stats on a single mount), so it did not take as long to max out a mount. One could also level up multiple mounts at once, so it was a decent money sink at the time.

Furthermore, I kind of like how it made mounts feel like individuals, or even actual NPCs, rather than cosmetics for your character, and even put a little bit of a game into how you would level up your mount. Even if a mount was designed for combat, for example, not worrying about inventory, one would still have to choose whether to make the mount hardier to withstand more hits, or faster to better escape hits. If doing crafting runs, how much should one invest in inventory versus speed?

Not that it was better than the current system, but it did have its upsides.