What horse to buy?

Litesek · May 2014

There are so many choices you have to make in this game, one of them being what horse to buy. I am going to play mostly pve, would that make the draft horse, only fed with oat the best choice? It feels like the point of having a horse is to move around quicker rather than getting more inventory space but when you pve you wont be needing that much speed anyway i think. And i don't feel like buying two horses, atleast not yet, because im still leveling and i don't have that much gold.

So what do you think? Should i buy a draft horse and only feed it oat or feed it with apples too because i'd like to have some speed too. Or maybe a light horse only fed with oat?

Oh and is it worth getting any stamina for the horse? I've heard it's quite glitchy.

Phantax · May 2014

Buy the one that lets you carry more, the bag space is well worth it. Personally I wouldn't bother with speed, lets face it your getting on/off the damn thing every few yards anyway...lol

lavendercat · May 2014

is there an absolute need to buy a horse ? for myself i mean.

i like running about. i dont really want a horse.

Skillet · May 2014

A horse is a horse of course of course. By the talking one

JosephChip · May 2014

Not a need, but you will be faster, won't waste stamina sprinting and you can simply run past mobs if you don't want to bother with them. If you increase carrying capacity you will also be able to carry more stuff around.

Phantax · May 2014

Nay, Nay and thrice Nay....rofl

lavendercat · May 2014

JosephChip wrote: »

Not a need, but you will be faster, won't waste stamina sprinting and you can simply run past mobs if you don't want to bother with them. If you increase carrying capacity you will also be able to carry more stuff around.

ah right. cheers

tbh i never sprint anyway. i havent really gotten the hang of it.

i suppose a horse might be useful then if i dont want to bother with mobs sometimes.

cabbageub17_ESO · May 2014

The one you like the appearance of best

Litesek · May 2014

Okay i guess ill get a light horse and only feed it with oat to get s bigger inventory and slightly more speed.

Nox_Aeterna · May 2014

Look , i do think the best horse is the 42k speed one.

Still , i wanted a black horse , so i got a black horse , not the best horse.

In the end my horse wont help in combat , i can deal with it being slower.

NyteJade · May 2014

Buy which ever you like, as long as you understand how the mounts work in game it doesn't matter.

You can feed your mount evey 20 hours. This is not a short term buff, but a stat increase for your mount at the cost of 250g a day for apples, oats, or hay.

Apples = 1% speed increase.
Hay = 1% stamina increase.
Oats = 1 additional inventory space.

Common Horse : 15% speed, 10 stamina, --17,200g.
Draft Horse : 15% speed, 10 stamina, 10 inventory spaces -- 42,700g
Gaited Horse : 15% speed, 20 stamina, -- 42,700g
Light Horse : 25% speed, 10 stamina, -- 42,700g
Imperial Mount: 15% speed, 10 stamina -- 1g
Palomino Mount: 15% speed, 10 stamina -- 1g

If you have the imperial mount or the palomino mount available from level 1 and you feed it daily then it doesn't take very long at all to have the fastest horse available from a merchant without walking and saving constantly.

Edited for clarity.

Nox_Aeterna · May 2014

NyteJade wrote: »

Buy which ever you like, as long as you understand how the mounts work in game it doesn't matter.

You can feed your mount evey 20 hours. This is not a short term buff, but a stat increase for your mount at the cost of 250g a day for apples, oats, or hay.

Apples = 1% speed increase.
Hay = 1% stamina increase.
Oats = 1 additional inventory space.

Common Horse : 15% speed, 10 stamina, --17,200g.
Draft Horse : 15% speed, 10 stamina, 10 inventory spaces -- 42,700g
Gaited Horse : 15% speed, 20 stamina, -- 42,700g
Light Horse : 25% speed, 10 stamina, -- 42,700g
Imperial Mount: 15% speed, 10 stamina -- 1g
Palomino Mount: 15% speed, 10 stamina -- 1g

If you have the imperial mount or the palomino mount available from level 1 and you feed it daily then it doesn't take very long at all to have the fastest horse in the game without walking and saving constantly.

Well the 10% will always be there , so you wont really have the fastest mount in the game.

Horses max lvl is 50.

So if someone adds everything to speed on the 42k light horse , they will end with 75% speed , while the 1g horse will be at most 65%.

The question then becomes how much those 10% matter to you lols.

Natjur · May 2014

NyteJade wrote: »

If you have the imperial mount or the palomino mount available from level 1 and you feed it daily then it doesn't take very long at all to have the fastest horse in the game without walking and saving constantly.

Except the max level for a horse is L50, once you level the Imperial Mount to max (49 Apples) its max speed is 64%
Light Horse at max level, its speed is 74%

But both horses I leveled to 50 did do something strange at L49, I feed it one apple but it got 2 speed, 1 stamina and 1 inventory space.

Anyone else get a bonus 1 speed, 1 stamina and 1 inventory space at L49 on their horse? Which made my pure speed Imperial Mount Speed 65%, 11 Stamina and 1 additional inventory space

I have two maxed Imperial Mount (one all speed, one all inventory space) and a third horse I am still leveling. (Gaited Horse cause its black but I should of got a Light Horse)

Litesek · May 2014

Thanks for taking your time to answer this thread, I think i've made my choice now. Light horse and ill feed it oat.

huntgod_ESO · May 2014

For pure bang for the buck...

1gp imp horse - bump it to 50 inventory - cheapest way to add 50 storage

Later if you really want, you can pick up a draft horse and bump it 50 inv to have 60 (not really worth it to me) or a light horse and dump pts into spd. I honestly spend more time running than I do riding, so I havent bothered with the spd horse yet.

The stamina horse...for pvp might be worth it, but if you have solid awareness you can balance this out.

From a purely monetary standpoint the modest differences do not warrant spending the extra 42699 per horse rather than buying 3 imp horses.

Also everytime you switch to the spd horse, you lose the bag space, etc.

AlexDougherty · May 2014

huntgod_ESO wrote: »

For pure bang for the buck...

1gp imp horse - bump it to 50 inventory - cheapest way to add 50 storage

Only available if you own the Imperial version.

Evergnar · May 2014

Skillet wrote: »

A horse is a horse of course of course. By the talking one

I would so buy that horse.

Choices are pretty simple for horses in my eyes:
PvP= Light horse (fast)
PvE= Draft horse (storage)

Only thing else to factor in is the look and if that matters to you. I bought a gaited horse for one of my alts just because I liked black (although he constantly stops sprinting even w/ plenty of stam left).

Litesek · May 2014

Or actually i'd like your opinion on Light horse maxed with inventory space, it would be a good choice if i both want a bigger inventory and more speed right?

Evergnar · May 2014

Litesek wrote: »

Or actually i'd like your opinion on Light horse maxed with inventory space, it would be a good choice if i both want a bigger inventory and more speed right?

Mmm..not really. Feeding a horse something different like a light horse oats means he'll never reach his true potential (max lvl). It's not that you can't do it but consider the fact that eventually you will have more than one horse. Having both the fastest horse as well as the one with the most storage is a nice way to go. What you don't necessarily want is say, ending up with two horses, that are the master of none. That is unless the max lvl just doesn't matter to you.

aipex8_ESO · May 2014

Nox_Aeterna wrote: »

Look , i do think the best horse is the 42k speed one.

Still , i wanted a black horse , so i got a black horse , not the best horse.

In the end my horse wont help in combat , i can deal with it being slower.

+1. Is it bad that I chose my horse based on color? LOL

Litesek · May 2014

Evergnar wrote: »

Litesek wrote: »

Or actually i'd like your opinion on Light horse maxed with inventory space, it would be a good choice if i both want a bigger inventory and more speed right?

Mmm..not really. Feeding a horse something different like a light horse oats means he'll never reach his true potential (max lvl). It's not that you can't do it but consider the fact that eventually you will have more than one horse. Having both the fastest horse as well as the one with the most storage is a nice way to go. What you don't necessarily want is say, ending up with two horses, that are the master of none. That is unless the max lvl just doesn't matter to you.

Ok i guess ill get the draft horse then and max it with oat. And when i reach max level ill get a light horse and only feed it apples. Ty for the answer btw.