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Suggestion: separate mount-buffs from the mounts

BjondBjond
in TERA PC - General Discussion
Currently, people want dragons or phoenix simply for the buffs. I suspect that if the mount-buff was a separate thing, many wouldn't choose those mounts. We'd have more individually expressive characters. MMO players love improving their character's functionality, but they also like that they are characters. That means making them unique -- giving each a different look is important and the mount is part of that.

Sell "mount buffs" separately from the mounts. Apply it to a character and it activates whenever mounted (or just always as with crit & rez buffs). Crit buff, rez buff, mount speed, flying duration, mounted hp/mp regen. Ensure that only the best-in-class of any type of buff is applied to avoid stacking. This implicitly recycles the art from all past mounts and makes every mount always relevant. You'd probably see an uptick in all kinds of mount sales that currently have very low sales plus the sale from the mount-buffs themselves; eg. there are mounts I really love and would certainly buy for some of my characters if it didn't mean giving up the dragon buffs.

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  • 5NY47CCA6Y5NY47CCA6Y ✭
    edited January 2018
    That's a good suggestion, my friend. Oh and that wonderfull idea would be, of course, implement it on our good old loot boxes! and maybe by an even lower chance than the actual mount, hey we gotta make up it and make ppeople gamble and spend more to have a buff that actually makes you stronger than other people and it can't be granted in any other way except paying. And people say there's no p2w in Tera haha. I miss the time when mounts used to be... well, mounts.
  • counterpointcounterpoint mod
    If you wanted to do this, it'd probably be more straightforward to create a sort of "costume slot" for mounts that overrides the mount's appearance with whatever you choose.
  • CatservantCatservant ✭✭✭✭
    counterpoint wrote: »
    If you wanted to do this, it'd probably be more straightforward to create a sort of "costume slot" for mounts that overrides the mount's appearance with whatever you choose.

    Oh, I really like that idea. Like, you could buy the "engine" and that put any "body" around it.
  • ElinUsagiElinUsagi ✭✭✭✭✭
    counterpoint wrote: »
    If you wanted to do this, it'd probably be more straightforward to create a sort of "costume slot" for mounts that overrides the mount's appearance with whatever you choose.
    Catservant wrote: »
    counterpoint wrote: »
    If you wanted to do this, it'd probably be more straightforward to create a sort of "costume slot" for mounts that overrides the mount's appearance with whatever you choose.

    Oh, I really like that idea. Like, you could buy the "engine" and that put any "body" around it.

    Yeah, this should be the way how mounts should work.
  • tisnotmetisnotme ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2018
    personally this is how they should have gone about the mountless flight situation with another slot on the Alt like with the footsteps so the toon could fly with out the suit you have to have but the costume you want/like
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