That's blown me away, and not in the good sense. 100 exalted reps is a hell of a lot of work (only at 63 myself) and all they can come up with as a reward is a translucent version of the Dark Phoenix? Wow, that's taking the proverbial...
Eek I'm only on 68, I honestly didn't think I'd be so far behind the curve.
Wow that's disappointing. I'll be surprised if such a blatant copy ships with launch. I guess we've seen it before though with the TCG Savage Raptor and the lookalike from Isle of Giants.
Now I know which achievement I'm NOT doing. Just go buy the Dark Phoenix from guild vendor & save yourselves the grind. It looks 90% similar. Such lazy designers at Blizzard, honestly.
I'll hold out hope that this is just a placeholder model.
I have always believed that the exalted count should be account wide. Whether you grinded Lower city on your Rogue for the ring enchant, the Aldor on your Paladin for the tabard, the 6 factIon reps on your warrior while dungeon leveling or the Emperor Shaohao on your Monk for the mount. You have done that content. You should not need to have it all done on one toon.P.S making exalted rep tabards account wide would be awesome too. We already have exalted rep mounts that are account wide.
So I don't know if its been pointed out yet, but this is exactly what the Dark Phoenix looked like for the first couple weeks due to a bug with the armor and opacity ... that bugged model is now an official mount.Just to prove it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jono1xEYUIkor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74dCYjg5Mqw (better example)
Is this a joke? A poor one at that. I actually will be achieving 100 reputations because I enjoy completionist play (already in the 90s) and I have to say it is very sad that I won't be riding this. Truly this represents a missed opportunity and someone from the art or dev team really needs to take a hard look at whether this re-skinned (that's a generous term, I legitimately can't tell the difference between this and Dark Phoenix at-a-glance) mount truly represents the effort and dedication it takes to get 100 exalted reputations on a single character.Please, please evaluate that last statement and tell me that this reward is equivalent to the effort put in. The idea is to give your playerbase a tangible reward, something to strive towards, not completely demotivate them because the reward is pointless compared to the grind. I rarely write negative criticism or jump on the bandwagon, but this is quite egregious if implemented as planned.
Will they make it so i can earn this if i have 100 unique exalted reps across different characters? I switched mains in WoD, so i have every rep before WoD exalted on my warlock, and every rep after WoD exalted on my monk.
Could this be a placeholder? Like come on
Currently sitting at 84 exalted reputations, not including Guild, Individual Tillers, Garrison Bodyguards, Brawler's guild, Chromie or Legion's Fisherfriends. Will those mentioned before count as ''exalted reputations'' for the achievement? Currently have 24 ''Best Friends''
couldnt they have at least recolored it? it looks almost exactly like the dark phoenix....
hm. I'm still not convinced that this isn't a placeholder. blizzard reuses models, sure (many complain, but I personally like having different color options) but they've never released the same mount as another. Nah. I will be very surprised if this isn't a placeholder.
It's cool how it goes completely spectral during the glide animation :o
Yeah, as divrs said, this is what the Dark Phoenix looked like when it was first introduced - it's the particle effects and armor of the dark phoenix without the actual bird. I'm guessing this is a similar situation, and it will look different when actually obtainable. :)
I don't mind recollors, I happily collect them, but this one won't be distinguishable from the guild vendor mount on inspection, let alone at a glance. In a world where we have bright blue infernals, why go for another shade of purple of an existing, purple phoenix? Getting to a hundred reputations will be a serious grind for anyone (at least till two expansions in the future or so), and this is just underwhelming. A title would even be better then this, as i might actually use that to show off.I think my main gripe with this is that in order to get 100 exalted reps, most people will also have their guild at exalted. This means that not only is it nearly identical to another mount, you're almost garanteed to obtain this other mount in the process of getting this mount. That's rarely the case with other similar mounts (TGC vs isle of thunder raptor, the heartsteed and the 400 mount rewards)
Why they just reskin everything? It looks exactly the same as dark phoenix but its transparent a bit... Dissapointing.
Blizzard so lazy nova days...Disappointing both for this mount and red horse...
set.opacity = 0.3 New and unique mount for the dedicated.Garbage mount.
By now I already have 88 exalted factions, maybe 89 before BFA after completing Laughing Skull Orcs. knowing that I'm already pretty close to this I'm really looking forward to this mount.