Opinions on Legendary Mounts
litaaers
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dafrca
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The chance of ever getting one in drop or buying one is so remote I have just picked two as my favorites based on looks and that is it. I love the way the Tenser's Floating Disk looks and I like the Imperial Rage Drake. These are my favorite based only on looks.5 -
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jumpingmorks
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4k Power Black Ice Warhorse or Arcane Whirlwind for Power Sharers, 4k Defense Emperor Beetle/Carpet for GF's.
Legacy Flail Snail/Coastal Flail snail for AP gain (Legacy gives same iLevel as Coastal Flail Snail when the AP power is used), it also has no CD, ty for that tip @thefabricant.
Swift Golden Lion for party shield.
T-Rex for unprecendented debuff. Good for DPS and Debuffers, stacks with other T-Rex debuffs, no idea if the stack has a cap though, have seen it stack twice.
4k Deflect for deflect builds.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head.5 -
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greywynd
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I find the carpet useful on my CW to get the mobs localized for AoE castings.I'm not looking for forgiveness, and I'm way past asking permission. Earth just lost her best defender, so we're here to fight. And if you want to stand in our way, we'll fight you too.5 -
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kemnimtarkas
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T Rex for the minion chomping animation in the Combat Power. Doesn't really do much for the team - one less mob drone doesn't help all that much - but it's fun to watch in a skirmish.
For Equip Power I'd probably go for axebeak for the ArmPen. It would free up other gear slots for power and crit. Wish I had one.5 -
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T-Rex seems to have the best animation, unlike BI Warhourse, Beetle, you just press and it fires, it's a very smooth activation, I just wish other mounts had the same system.5
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reg1981
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I've heard several complaints about the Tensors. Myself and 1 other in guild got this mount in the last week and see no more delay than any other mounts... Plus the power from tensors can be activated while moving which is nice...litaaers said:Thank you all for the answers! Does anyone have any insight on the animation times for various Legendary Mounts? I thought I had seen talk of Tenser's Disk being longer to activate, and others being really fast, but cannot seem to search those posts out.
The Lion is pretty quick to use but can be canceled by times between the knock back and the temp HP it gives.
The Whirlwind is a pain in the ass because it's easy to miss with it. Cast time is again about the same but you need to move and position yourself to hit with it.
The armored griffon and armored strider and quick and easy to pop off with no mucking around but don't offer the bonuses some others do.5 -
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Just thought of why some may complain about tensors.
In lower level content, stuff dies way to fast to be able to use this combat power. In those cases, sure it sucks because everything is dead by the time your buffed up and ready to start swinging...
End game, I see no issues with the time it takes to activate.5 -
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litaaers said:
Ok, last question... Which seems better and why? :
Turning a GR Legendary Pack in for a mount that I would use (Tenser's, Rage Drake, etc)?
Turning a GR Legendary Pack in for a mount that I would sell (Tenser's, Rage Drake, etc), and then buy another, lower cost mount pretty much for the 140% Movement Bonus, and some lesser, but still useful, Equip/Mount power?
The argument behind the second option is that it is fairly easy to get stats you need to where you want them (with Mounts becoming part of Loadouts, this is even easier), and the Movement Bonus is about 50% of the draw for Legendary Mounts. I am not big on appearance/visuals of Mounts, so any would do, as long as its not too distracting.
The argument behind the first option is ITS A FREAKIN' TENSER'S!!!/RAGE DRAKE!!!/ETC!!!!
All comments are welcome. And thank you!
For me it came down this:
1. 140% Speed
2. Stats. My GWF was capped on arm pen and capped on crit. Because of this, Tensors was my choice. 4K recovery + the combat power that is freakin awesome! I can't get over the boost in dmg when I pop this off!
Like you the looks of the mount weren't important to me, I can change the skin if I want something different.
What class are you running that you plan to put an orange mount on? DC / OP I'd always use a 4k power mount if it's in the AD budget lol5 -
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It one shots Souls in Ras Nsi fight and one shots Shadows but not Wraiths for some reason (the Shaodws are the ones that ambush you and can wipe a whole team out pretty quickly).kemnimtarkas said:T Rex for the minion chomping animation in the Combat Power. Doesn't really do much for the team - one less mob drone doesn't help all that much - but it's fun to watch in a skirmish.
For Equip Power I'd probably go for axebeak for the ArmPen. It would free up other gear slots for power and crit. Wish I had one.5 -
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my favorite mount is the game is the T Rex for how I cant stop loving that one and how I would like to see a change in the combat powers so when you call out your mount that I would like to see it call out either dinosaurs in the game than chult5
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Not everyone can come to end game BiS overnight!litaaers said:
My main is a CW (13.6k iLvl). I've never really had the time to min/max my stats, and was often unclear on the 'caps', so I just pumped up the main 3, plus some recovery. TBH, I have enough gear/enchantments/insignia to make my stats what I want, so whatever I pick for mount stats, I can always adjust elsewhere (swapping Brutals for Demonics if I need more ArmPen, etc).reg1981 said:
What class are you running that you plan to put an orange mount on? DC / OP I'd always use a 4k power mount if it's in the AD budget lol
I have never run FBI, Svard or ToNG. Just never had the time or friends to group with when I did have time, so my gear is not BiS, but it gets me by. I do have the River District Aboleth Weapons, so that isn't so bad.
Knowing you main a CW, I can't help you when it comes to stats you'll be lacking if you do min/max them. Any BiS CW's following this thread that might be able to provide details?
I suspect the purchase of an Orange mount is something you only want to do once, so you did the right thing asking and talking out this information!!
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sengir0
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most of the end game CW prefer the snail for AP gain and T-Rex for the debuff. The 4k power form other mounts can be ignored when your with a good party.5
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jonkoca
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First of all, gratz!!!.
Second of all, I hate you.☺
Personally, I wish I had a lion. Party shield, prone, massively useful in both pve for a non-optimal group, and bis in PvP. Imho, for pve, just look at what stats you need, cavalrys warning is one of those 'duh I forgot to press it' powers usually for me anyway.
Lions are about 9.5 million last time I looked, so I'd sell a more expensive mount, buy a lion, pocket the rest.
No idea what my toon is now.5
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Turning a GR Legendary Pack in for a mount that I would use (Tenser's, Rage Drake, etc)?
Turning a GR Legendary Pack in for a mount that I would sell (Tenser's, Rage Drake, etc), and then buy another, lower cost mount pretty much for the 140% Movement Bonus, and some lesser, but still useful, Equip/Mount power?
The argument behind the second option is that it is fairly easy to get stats you need to where you want them (with Mounts becoming part of Loadouts, this is even easier), and the Movement Bonus is about 50% of the draw for Legendary Mounts. I am not big on appearance/visuals of Mounts, so any would do, as long as its not too distracting.
The argument behind the first option is ITS A FREAKIN' TENSER'S!!!/RAGE DRAKE!!!/ETC!!!!
All comments are welcome. And thank you!
I have never run FBI, Svard or ToNG. Just never had the time or friends to group with when I did have time, so my gear is not BiS, but it gets me by. I do have the River District Aboleth Weapons, so that isn't so bad.