Here comes the next content patch (3.2)

[Lakov_Sanite]

The proto-drakes look ridiculous anyway. Knuckle dragging dragons, oooooh. 

It's like the epeen people who wanted the stupid flamer phoenix mount because it was rare.

Dude...shadowform phoenix.....shadowform.

[Rendakor]

The phoenix is also crazy fast.

[Ingmar]

It might just be that some people actually think the phoenix is neat looking (shock and horror).

Remember they're not removing the achievements themselves, just the mount rewards. There is a 'casual' obtainable 310% speed protodrake, by the way, for the holiday achievement meta, and for those who just want a protodrake and don't care if it has the extra speed boost, they have not (and are not going to) removed the red protodrake for the heroic dungeon achievement meta, and there's also the green protodrake random reward from Oracle eggs, the option to camp out for the time-lost protodrake in Storm Peaks, and the chance of the blue protodrake dropping from Skadi in heroic Utgarde Pinnacle. It is possible I'm forgetting another one too.

To be totally honest part of the reason I'm not bothered by the removal of the super fast speed drakes is I don't want to still be running every single hardmode achievement 3 years from now getting someone's latest alt the special super fast mount they want. 

[Sjofn]

The proto-drakes look ridiculous anyway. Knuckle dragging dragons, oooooh. 

It's like the epeen people who wanted the stupid flamer phoenix mount because it was rare.

Man, the proto-drakes are way cooler than the stupid phoenix, wyverns, and nether rays.

[Lakov_Sanite]

A guildy actually has last arena seasons frostwyrm mount, best one in game imo.

[Lantyssa]

To be totally honest part of the reason I'm not bothered by the removal of the super fast speed drakes is I don't want to still be running every single hardmode achievement 3 years from now getting someone's latest alt the special super fast mount they want. 

What about their main?

[Paelos]

Mount whores confuse me. I know tons of them who never ride more than 2-3, but they MUST HAVE NEWEST ONE!

At least pet collectors use a silly addon to pull random companions out of their asses.

[Ingmar]

What's confusing about it? There are achievements involved. People like doing achievements.

[Rasix]

I don't even feel the need for a faster than 280% flyer.  Do I really want to be the first guy back to Naxx?

And uh, can't people still do the hard mode achievements?  All they are doing is removing the mount, right?

[Rendakor]

Mount whores confuse me. I know tons of them who never ride more than 2-3, but they MUST HAVE NEWEST ONE!

At least pet collectors use a silly addon to pull random companions out of their asses.

I made a couple macros to pull out a random mount; one for my epic flyers and one for my epic ground mounts. Grinded my way to 50 mounts because I wanted the white drake.

[Dren]

Has the countdown to neon blue capes and shields started yet?

[Fabricated]

I don't even feel the need for a faster than 280% flyer.  Do I really want to be the first guy back to Naxx?

And uh, can't people still do the hard mode achievements?  All they are doing is removing the mount, right?

Sure is nice for beating people to nodes.

[Mattemeo]

The proto-drakes look ridiculous anyway. Knuckle dragging dragons, oooooh. 

It's like the epeen people who wanted the stupid flamer phoenix mount because it was rare.

I like the Proto-drakes more than the standard drakes. There's something much more animalistic to them, and they look friendly!
Also the standard Drakes have a head spike that skewers every rider besides gnomes in the damn chest or face, which looks utterly stupid.

Never seen the Phoenix in game so it's not really a mount I have an opionion of as yet, but if it looks neat, chances are I might like it.

To be honest the only mount I truly give a crap about obtaining in the game is a mere 100% ground-mount - the Raven Lord. It's just beautiful, noble yet slightly ridiculous - if it could fly I'd never ride anything else.

I'm fishing for the Sea Turtle (I'm a fishing achiever), doing Netherwing dailies, getting my first egg from the Oracles and have a looksee for the Time Lost Proto-drake every now and then. I just chalk obtaining mounts up as 'something to do'. So yeah, excuse me for getting irritated when some get taken away once the hardcore have had their fun.

[K9]

Someone on my server has the phoenix and it looks fricking amazing.

[Paelos]

It's an orange epeen lava lamp. Different strokes on the drakes I guess, but I know tons of people that think they look cool. I just think they should give us a Nazgul mount and be done with it if they are going that direction.

[K9]

The only thing that bothers me about the proto-drakes is their size; however the annoyance of protodrakes is gloriously eclipsed by the clusterfuck that is mammoth mounts. Fuck me I hate those and all the retards who ride one; or to be more precise, the hordes of retards who go AFK on top of NPCs while riding one of them.

[Soulflame]

I want to collect 100 mounts so I can ride a dragonhawk.  Taking away these achievement mounts isn't horrible, but it'd be easier to complete those achievements longterm than it would be for me to farm random drops from heroics.

I do think it's utterly ridiculous I will have X number of mounts, and I use two of them.  I've thought about macros or an add-on that would cycle through mounts, at least I'd get some use out of them that way.

[Merusk]

I just got the Albino Drake on my DK and love it, so I understand the push for 100 mounts.  I use the AutoBar add-on which puts my mounts on one button I shit-click over to get a flyout of all my mounts.   I pick which ever suits my mood and fly/ ride off that way.  Great fun and less effort than the tedium required to come up with a /castrandom macro series.

[WindupAtheist]

I'm kinda bored with WoW lately. I wish it were possible to play a villainous character.

[Paelos]

I'm kinda bored with WoW lately. I wish it were possible to play a villainous character.

It's summer and my raiders are all over the place in schedules. I'm thinking I'm just going to say fuck it and cancel raids until September. Frankly, I'm sick of WoW, too. There's so many better things to be doing in the longer evenings now since it's light until 9:00

[Ingmar]

I'm kinda bored with WoW lately. I wish it were possible to play a villainous character.

Roll on a pvp server and start ganking and teabagging?

[WindupAtheist]

I guess I could crank out a DK on a PVP server and go frag newbs in Ashenvale until an 80 turns up to waste me. Eh. I'd probably do it for laughs if it weren't for the huge quest chain.

[Nevermore]

Well, while the new cat models are definitely infinitely better looking than the old version, I'm still glad my Druid isn't a Tauren.

[Ingmar]

[Sjofn]

Sweet Jesus is the old model bad. I actually really like the new ones, I would possibly consider being a tauren feral druid now. The horns are still dumb though.

[Koyasha]

I've got no problem with the horns on the newer models, but it would irk me that they're all automatically male lions.  If I ever considered playing a tauren druid, which is unlikely even at the best of times.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I see no bollocks on any of those models.  I can understand wanting mane/no mane but in a high fantasy world like warcraft it's not really one of those big concerns to me.

[Sheepherder]

I guess I could crank out a DK on a PVP server and go frag newbs in Ashenvale until an 80 turns up to waste me. Eh. I'd probably do it for laughs if it weren't for the huge quest chain.

Roll a DK and do BG's.  59 bracket is filled with so much shortbus that it's impossible not to enjoy yourself.  Bonus points if you roll on a friend's server and get some free enchants and gear.

[Sjofn]

I've got no problem with the horns on the newer models, but it would irk me that they're all automatically male lions. 

Oh, that is without a doubt annoying, but I knew hoping for female cats would only end in disappointment.

[Musashi]

Horns wouldn't be so bad if they were smaller.

[Fordel]

They all look like Scar from the LionKing to me.

[Mattemeo]

Let's be honest here, it would have been hard for the Blizz art team to produce anything uglier than the original druid cat form (besides Horde wyverns... and maybe BATRUS aquatic form). But I think they look great.

Ok, so they all have manes and the horns are still there, but at least they look good now. I really hope they're going to go over a lot of the old art and smooth it out a little - is there any reason, for example, that Night Elf hairstyles all have to end in raggedy pixels in this day and age? They should have been remodelled when TBC was released, the BE/Draenei hairstyles are all smooth and crisp in comparison.

[Paelos]

Apparently they've managed to bomb my server back to the stone age accidently during the maintence today. Won't even be an update until 10:30 EST which just makes me chuckle.

It's the longest downtime I've ever seen outside of an actual patch. Keystone cops and whatnot.

[Nevermore]

This being the patch they didn't feel the need to put on the test server, right?

[Paelos]

Something like that. My server is still down at 11 EST. Huzzah!