Mounts

[Rambo Cutlass]

No one in either of the guilds (Beta / Phyll) & (Zeus(4) / Clarity) I'm in seems to find ANY benefit associated with having a Mount. In fact, after having one on Beta, I've chosen to not bother on Live.

o Damage given is not increased with as opposed to without.
o Damage taken is not increased with as opposed to without.
o Speed (really?) is not increased with as opposed to without.
I don't get to "The Lady Guinevere" on horse any quicker than anyone on foot.

But, I've finally figured out a way they can be of benefit. Grinding. Reduce the Grind Time 10% for each level of mount you ride: 10% for White Horse, 20% for Black Horse, etc.

This makes sense. Historically, mounts make you more effective attacking and provide defense against attack. They also get you from opponent-to-opponent MUCH quicker than on foot.

[Klepto]

I feel like my speed is faster on a horse as opposed to without. I don't think it increases beyond that but if nothing else it feels like I move faster with a mount on live.

[Morgan le Fay]

Mounts are purely cosmetic. Just a bit of fun the devs put in to look cool. In a way, they do but it's up to the player whether they decide to purchase one or not.

[Rambo Cutlass]

Heh! Yeah... we had known that... Still, making them functional would add a bit more flavor to the game.

[Klepto]

Mounts are purely cosmetic. Just a bit of fun the devs put in to look cool. In a way, they do but it's up to the player whether they decide to purchase one or not.

I actually disagree here. I just stopwatched my player both on a mount and off a mount going the same route through auto-navigation and found on a mount to take 7.0 seconds whereas on foot took 7.8 seconds (more likely 7.7 if I was off a bit).

I'll try this experiment a few more times but on first glance there's a 10% improvement for being on a mount (which I suspected).

EDIT:

Ran this experiment three times for each mode (on a mount, on foot). My route was starting from the top right guard next to the cloud bridge and walking/riding to the Fair NPC Ramira Houssier.

Here are the results:

Time in seconds to complete route
On foot: 8.5, 8.3, 8.2 --> Average 8.33 seconds
On mount: 7.1, 7.5, 7.0 --> Average 7.2 seconds


Average speed improvement: 15.74%


Conclusion: If mounts are purely cosmetic, then why the dramatic difference in time to completion of the same route? Due to such a difference, I can only conclude mounts offer a speed increase until my experiment is disproven.

[Dawnseeker]

Mounts have only one benefit, and its important. They make you look awesome.

[Klepto]

Mounts have only one benefit, and its important. They make you look awesome.

I appreciate your enthusiasm, Dawnseeker, but if you don't mind could you address my findings? My reflexes aren't over a second off so it can't be that I just completely botched the timing on my testing, and I performed each test at least four times and each time and on average found that walking was slower than riding.

Whatever the developers are saying, cold hard facts don't lie. I'll be running some more tests on this when I get some time but I'm fairly convinced that mounts offer benefit beyond just "looking cool", and that benefit is in faster movement.

[Rambo Cutlass]

Still... if speed were the only improvement, 10-15% isn't much. And, I've run, on foot, right alongside a mounted hero from the square to the purple chapel and not lost any ground.

[rafmeister_5440998]

The A few members of out guild have tested the speed of mounts, and compared to foot speed. Apparently, some of the cats are significantly faster than foot.

[PieScoop]

they should make them increase your movment speed while not in battles just roaming,as they are costly depending on which ones you get. 1b coins for a dragon just for looks seems a bit dull.