I planned on writing a review of Minecraft today, but I recently changed my mind. Why, you ask? Well, because Minecraft is in alpha, and I really haven't gotten far enough in to make a solid judgement on it. I also decided to change because of the HUGE amount of QQing I've heard on the WoW forums as of late, so here we go:
If you haven't been following the Cataclysm information, there's been a new development in regards to the worgen. Blizzard finally released the mounts. What are they? Worgen, in place of mounts, are getting an ability called "Running Wild". The flavor text says: Drop to all fours to run as fast as a wild animal. What does this mean, you ask?
It means that Worgen are now the only race that doesn't have it's own true "mount". It means that, instead of giving them one of their own, Worgen now drop to all fours and run just as fast as a regular mount (or an epic, if you have the training). And you know what? This is totally awesome!
There has been alot of complaining about it, though. Most of it comes from Alliance mount collectors, who are upset the Alliance won't be getting more mounts. These mounts are prime for mount collectors to increase their total, as others require raiding, achievements, or other kinds of grinding. With the new Horde race, Goblins, getting their own mounts, many discount this as unfair.
More complaints come from an offhand mention of an old World of Warcraft beta skill, Plainsrunning. This was given to Tauren players in place of mounts, as Blizzard didn't have one they could use. Back then, racial mounts were race-specific, and Tauren were way to big to fit on them. In patch 1.0.1, kodos were added, so when the game launched, Tauren had their own mount.
However, these two abilities are completely different.
Plainsrunning was a passive ability that worked when a Tauren ran for more then 10 seconds. After that time, they would burst into epic mounted speed. Players had no control on when this would happen, and in PvP and instances, this would be either unfair or very unlucky (think if you main tank was running to a boss, then THIS happened...)
The new Worgen spell is NOTHING like this. It is a 1.5 second cast, just like normal mounts. While you're on all fours, you are considered mounted. You can be unmounted, as normal, and you can't cast spells or abilities, like when you're mounted.
Basically, it's just like a mount only Worgen can have, that had no extra model, and doesn't count twords your mount total. I think all the debate is silly. Worgen can still ride other racial mounts, so nothing is lost. In the end, it's just less *PEW PEW* and more QQ.
Thanks for reading.
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