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I practically wrote an essay on the wowhead article (and I'll do it again here) about how booty this mount is for the 500 as well.
Everyone was frothing at the mouth at "omg new otter mount must have thx blizz uwu" but in reality, there were like 5 or so armored otters in the mount journal.
At least the yeti would only have been recolor #4, but this otter is straight up launching with 5 recolors, not to mention the unarmored versions of the otters.
This one needs to be changed as well, all other achievement mounts fall under 3 categories:
Mount with a special/unique recolor (Albino Drake)
Mount with a model with very few recolors (the Kite and the Dragonhawks)
3rd recolor of something we previously only had 2 of (Feltalon, Firehawk, Infernals)
So we need 500 to be something of the same caliber. My personal want is a Fel Green Charhound, an Albino Protodrake, or a Kaluak/Tuskarr Kite. This would fall under any 3 of the usual categories

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I would enjoy a palanquin (fantastically lavish carriage cab box) carried by a couple of evoker-model people, and when it flies, they both sprout wings and we soar.

Or a parade float lifted by pocopoc / zereth geometric blobs, so it looks like it has crazy BB-8 wheels until it "takes off" cuz it pocopoc-like splits up into swirly bits to carry us

or maybe a wispy carpet-like cloud to ride on with "weather" coloration matching the zone? (therefore wouldn't resemble the monk disc)

that'd be fun

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Blizzard please stop using recolors of other mounts lol. Even though the otter is a new style of mount it isn't unique. You guys should just put that otter as another mount you get in dragonflight 500 mounts should be a completely separate mount.

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On 7/20/2022 at 4:12 AM, Flowerhorn said:

'My personal want is a Fel Green Charhound...'

- Already has 5 or 6 recolours no?

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29 minutes ago, Cham79 said:

- Already has 5 or 6 recolours no?

I am not sure what mount you are remembering, but the Charhound mount from Antorus has the Orange variant from the second boss and the Purple variant from the Meta Achievement for the raid. So there are only currently 2 colors of that mount.
This would also follow the trend of getting the fel green version of the mount from the mount collection achievement, similar to the Feltalon and Fel Firehawk

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On 7/25/2022 at 8:31 AM, Flowerhorn said:

I am not sure what mount you are remembering, but the Charhound mount from Antorus has the Orange variant from the second boss and the Purple variant from the Meta Achievement for the raid. So there are only currently 2 colors of that mount.
This would also follow the trend of getting the fel green version of the mount from the mount collection achievement, similar to the Feltalon and Fel Firehawk

Whoops, my bad: I meant reskins not recolours;

The 2 charhounds you mentioned
The Undercity Plaguebat
The Gargoyle mounts from 9.1

Not to mention the Argus mounts are pretty much wingless fel charhounds, albeit their 'fel' colour is too dark for them to look like what I imagine you invision

I would just prefer them to use new models like they did with Unshackled Ur'Zul for mythic Argus, don't see why we have to let them put us into the corner of only using recolours for mount achievements just because they have previously 

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9 hours ago, Cham79 said:

Whoops, my bad: I meant reskins not recolours;

The 2 charhounds you mentioned
The Undercity Plaguebat
The Gargoyle mounts from 9.1

Not to mention the Argus mounts are pretty much wingless fel charhounds, albeit their 'fel' colour is too dark for them to look like what I imagine you invision

I would just prefer them to use new models like they did with Unshackled Ur'Zul for mythic Argus, don't see why we have to let them put us into the corner of only using recolours for mount achievements just because they have previously 

Ah, I mostly hear those referred to as "Remodels" since they are reusing the base skeleton. I mostly hear "reskin" used to describe a mount that isnt a recolor, ie an otter and an armored otter being a reskin. But I digress, they do remodels all the time.
The Cloud Serpent skeleton has been used for probably 5+ mounts of different models. Some examples are the cloud serpent, the abyss worm, the slime serpent, the latest 6month mount, and the wilderling mounts. All of them use the same skeleton but have different models. Charhounds are the only ones with that model, but they use the Demon Hunter Class mount skeleton.
Even the Urzul you mention isnt a unique skeleton, it uses the Gryphon skeleton along with the original DK flying mount, the ebon steed. And while that is a unique model with no recolors, it was used as a Final Mythic boss mount, all of which have been a unique mount since Legion
While I do agree, a unique model reward would be better, it still isn't awful to get a recolor mount as long as they stick with how they have previously done it.

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