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reptalon (UGLY)

how dare you



On a serious note, and as always at the risk of power creep, we could make high-end mounts:
- faster (who needs magery when I can go coast-to-coast in 5 minutes???)
- give passive stats hp/mp/sta (ew boring, but also easy to reason about and balance for)
- passively activate cooldowns in combat (passive regeneration, occasional heals/cures, proc horn jabs/bites/fire breaths on you hitting)
- give an active ability to use in combat (probably the same stuff as above, but more control over when it happens, maybe players can toggle between auto/manual cast?)
- big spells out of combat (recall/gate, now I really don't need magery :^])

Of course, gate the better mounts/abilities behind higher taming/lore values. The balance comes mainly from still having to take 1+ skills to take advantage of the bonuses. This might allow for neat tamer splashes for our knights/archers/mages who don't want to manage pets, but maybe want a spicier mount that gives them some combat versatility- and it still takes skill points!