The TBC Deluxe Edition Mount is P2W, you can't tell me otherwise

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People keep telling themself that it’s a cosmetic only item that wont affect gameplay.

How I see the mount work, is that once you buy it. Every character that you have on the TBC realms will have this mount mailed to them. Every character you create afterwards will also have this mount mailed to them.

The process of having to farm gold for a mount has been eliminated now. All you have to do is learn riding and you’re good to go! And that’s gameplay that have been affected by a micro-transaction.

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Mount alone won’t get you anywhere, you need riding skill, and that is what the majority of mount costs are in tbc, not the mount itself like it was in vanilla.

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But you essentially cut out the need to buy ground mounts forever if you buy the store mount?

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I quess, 9-10g on 60% and 90-100g for 100%

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The cost in TBC is reversed 800g for 60% flying and mounts cost 100g.

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Oh wow you don’t need to spend 5G to buy a mount at lv30.

I’m sure that with those 5 extra gold I will buy rank1 in arena

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Don’t forget they dropped costs on tbc - it’s about 5G for lvl 30 mount and 35g for 60% training; can’t remember exact costs for 100% but it’s about 40 % cheaper than vanilla.

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If you have an epic mount in your inventory when tbc launches, dont you automatically have epic riding in tbc?

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That is correct. If i understand correctly eveyone buying the mount will have 100% ground speed at lvl 40 (or 30 can’t remember). So p2w in a way. Instead of buying 1000 gold for 15eur from botters you pay Blizz but get it on every characters. Still p2w but now account wide.

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??? riding skill still needed to buy

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This is the big question. If Blizzard send the mount via Ingame Post so it can be that it will not count for the automatic riding skill.

Also if you get it direct to your inventory it depends on the fact when it will be granted. If this happens after the Upgrade to TBC the Riding skill will also not be granted.

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And this is the problem. People will only see it as P2W if you can get to the literal tippitytop of the foodchain.

If they sold second place people would still chant how “its not so bad”

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I think you got the riding skill automatically if you had a rare or epic mount in your bags come BC.

It’s because they changed how it worked between Classic and TB. Where the big upfront gold went from being the mount to being the riding skill.

The boost with the mount includes the riding skill.

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you get the lvl30 riding skill on the boosted character yes. but not epic riding.

In tbc you still need to learn riding to be able to ride epic mounts flying mounts and fast flying mounts

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:clown_face: You only save a little bit of gold, so it’s ok :clown_face:

:clown_face: Only a little bit pay-to-win, it’s ok :clown_face:

:clown_face: I’m sure they won’t add more stuff like that in the future :clown_face:

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None of it its p2w…you clearly dont understand what p2w means and who cares if they add more mounts or some flames that shoot up out of your as,s while you run around

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So having an exclusive mount, that is faster than every in-game mount from levels 30-60, is not p2w?

And time is just as valuable as skill in an mmorpg. Buying time, is buying money and speeding up progression. That is literally the definition of p2w

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Imagine playing a lvl 39/49 twink without this mount if its actually 100% movement speed.

Im sure that “wont matter” somehow too.

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That’s not how mount skills work in tbc.

You get the mount and then the speed depends on your skill lvl. The warpstalker fugly is just a mount…it’s speed will be dependent on your riding skill; so at lvl 30 it will be 60%, not 100%

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This does seem the most logical case. Epic mount speed is such a major cost that I doubt even Blizzard is so autistic as to include that into the store mount (And at level 30 to boot!). It’s clearly meant to be a cosmetic reward only. (Aside from the few gold you save from the mount purchase)