Archive for February, 2008

Recent & Upcoming Mounts … Plus Reindeer!

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Allow me to introduce the newest addings to Warcraft Mounts: Recent Additions and Upcoming Additions. Recent Additions showcases mounts that were added to World of Warcraft in the last major patch; Upcoming Additions highlights what we know about mounts coming in the next major patch.

In addition, after a lot of research (and, frankly, a lot of guessing), I’ve added a field to each mount indicating the patch in which it was introduced — as least, as far as I can tell. I stuck with major patches rather that dates, so for seasonal mounts and the code & card mounts I just used with the patch before the event/booster release. I did have to piece together a lot of random bits to try to figure out some of the mounts, so if you see any mistakes please let me know.

Finally, the Seasonal Mounts now have their own page since, with the addition of Reindeer from the Feast of Winter Veil, they were crowding out the other mounts. Reindeer, of course. are not true mounts — but as an effect you can use to transform your normal mount they sure are cool!

Swift White Hawkstriders for All!

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Patch 2.4, currently on the Public Test Realms, includes a new loot mount — the Swift White Hawkstrider, dropped from Kael’thas in Magister’s Terrace (Heroic).

(Unfortunately I don’t have this mount on the site yet; I blew up my local database last night and the new “Upcoming Mounts” page isn’t ready yet. But it will be soon! Watch this space for news. In the meantime, here’s a pic on Wowhead.)

When the Swift White Hawkstrider was first discovered on the 2.4 Public Test Realms, it could only be ridden by the races that can normally ride hawkstriders: Orcs, Undead, Trolls, and Blood Elves. Quite a disappointment for Alliance and Tauren! But today a grumpy Hortus confirmed that that was a bug, that the bug has been fixed, and that the Swift White Hawkstrider can indeed be ridden by all races.

Of course, there is still the problem of defeating Kael’thas and getting him to drop his lovely bird, but …

Blizzard’s Spectral Tiger Gallery

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

I think Blizzard is trying to show me up with all these new mount screenshots! Today Bornakk announced that they have added a new Spectral Tiger screenshot gallery to their own Special Mounts page. Some of these screenshots really show off the subtle nature of the Spectral Tiger.

(And no, I don’t actually think their new mount galleries have anything to do with me.)